It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 11-20-23

Currently Reading

Tremor by Teju Cole

“A masterful novel by one of America’s finest writers . . . Cole is not just offering us a novel about art, migration, or marginalisation, rather a new politics of seeing, reading and thinking.”—The Daily Telegraph

Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo

“Years ago, when I felt that the world weighed too heavily on my shoulders and believed (as only the young do) that the world would not willingly let me go, I used to dream of disappearing to some remote upstate New York town and checking in, a permanent guest, at its crumbling bleak hotel. Such towns, which I imagined to be off the edge of the map, are very much at the center of Richard Russo’s fictional geography. His ambitious new novel, “Nobody’s Fool,” is set in North Bath, N.Y., a fractionally less blighted version of the blue-collar dead end where his earlier novels, Mohawk and The Risk Pool, take place.” – Francine Prose, The New York Times June 20, 1993

Recently Read

Absolutely nothing to report! I haven’t finished either of my current books in the past week.

Currently Listening To

I’ve been listening to some very long audiobooks from the library lately, and in the middle of them, my other audiobook holds keep coming available and I put off delivery, but then newly available holds start coming in along with all the postponed holds, etc. etc.

I chose a fantasy again to reduce stress after all my horror listening this fall, but I forgot how dark V. E. Schwab’s fantasies are, so that plan kind of backfired.

Vicious by V. E. Schwab

“V.E. Schwab’s Vicious is as sharp as a knife and cold as a corpse. It’s a killer story about power, corruption, and vengeance, but it isn’t drowning in grimdark. Throughout, moments of love and light break through the storm clouds, keeping story from teetering too far into the irredeemably sinister.” – Tor.com

Recently Listened To

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

I didn’t get to finish this classic story collection (over 10 hours long). Even though I listened to it in November, The October Country is a good choice for fall reading. The stories are dark and tinged with melancholy, like fall evenings.

This post is linked to “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Check out the link-up party there to find more books to add to your TBR.