It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 12-5-22

Recently Read

Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli

“If you are someone who gravitates toward emotional gut punch reads, allow me to introduce you to this spectacular debut…”— BuzzFeed

Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli was released last month, and I’ve been so out of it that I didn’t realize it was the Good Morning America Book Club selection for November. This usually bumps up the library wait list for a book astronomically (I only just got around to listening to Lessons in Chemistry, which was the April selection, because of the long wait list.) so I was lucky I had an advance reading copy of Someday, Maybe from NetGalley.

A tragic death of a young husband by suicide is at the heart of Someday, Maybe, so it’s not always an easy read. BuzzFeed describes the book as an “emotional gut-punch” and that seems about right. The book is narrated by the newly widowed Eve Ezenwa-Morrow. But it’s really a book about the emotional rollercoaster of surviving such a loss and what loving family and friends can and can’t do to help their grieving loved one. Highly recommended!

Nigerian-born British author Onyi Nwabineli grew up in Glasgow and lives in London. Someday, Maybe is her first novel.

The Third Rail by Bill Fleming and Joe Peters

Just finished The Third Rail!

Local author Bill Fleming’s third book about MBTA cop Morris Fitzgerald was my lunch hour reading in November. I enjoy these novels not so much for the mysteries that get solved but for all the lore about the long-running Boston subway system and its quirky, long-suffering riders. Morris is nearing retirement age, but the T is still going — not strong, maybe, but going.

Currently Reading

Any Better Than This by Eric Sean Rawson

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll—and the Arpanet? It’s June 1967.
On the way to his wedding in Berkeley, a strait-laced computer engineer working on a Defense Department contract picks up a free-spirited hitchhiker. Join Elliot Ames and Morning Star McGovern on a trip down the rabbit-hole that was the Summer of Love.

Got Any Better Than This: A Summer of Love Story through a LibraryThing Early Reviewers giveaway! More about this next week, because I’ve only just started it.

Currently Listening To

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

I’ve been listening to Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout for just a few days, and am almost to the end already. 🙁

I love, love, love it! But of course. It’s by one of my very favorite authors. A favorite of 2022, for sure!

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 for more book lists!

Please tell me what you’re up to in the comments!