It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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Lynda Cohen Loigman
For my April book club meeting, I’m reading The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman (St. Martin’s, 2019). We read the author’s novel The Two-Family House (also about sisters) last year.
The sisters in the book, Ruth and Millie, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and were polar opposites in every way from the moment Millie, the younger sister, was born. Beautiful and happy go lucky Millie seemed to Ruth to lead a charmed life; to Millie, smart and sensible Ruth seemed to be always disapproving and unaffectionate. The setting of the book moves from New York to Massachusetts, where the sisters end up living together again during the war.
If you haven’t tired of stories of women and World War II, this is one you will probably enjoy if you liked Lilac Girls, The Nightingale, The Lost Girls of Paris, etc.
Read author Lynda Cohen Loigman’s Story Behind the Book.
Some of us intrepid book-clubbers are going to brave the outlaw world of Zoom and have a virtual book club meeting this week. We’ll see how it works out!
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Currently Listening
(Blackstone Audio, 2017)
It’s Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice is a memoir by an Irish writer/filmmaker who is diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) just as he’s hitting his stride as an independent director — while also happily married and raising young children. The audiobook, narrated by Alan Smyth, is a moving testament to the possibility of living your best life in the face of a terminal diagnosis. Although devastating, this memoir of illness is also the story of a meaningful life full of art, love, family and hope.
Listen to an excerpt from It’s Not Yet Dark.
It’s Not Yet Dark was also made into a documentary film by the author himself in 2016.
Please comment to let me know what you’re reading this week. Thank you for visiting!
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, are, and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever-growing TBR pile! This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at Book Date.
I’ve been noticing The War time Sisters a lot around the reading world. Good to hear you are liking it. Yes there are so many books written about the wars and I’ve read quite a few, but I still think often they have good things to say and highlight the bravery and foibles of the time.