It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 6-24-24

Picture of bookshelf with text: SPEAKING OF BOOKS

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New “It’s Monday” post, same as the last “It’s Monday” post! I’m outside in my shady outdoor lunchtime spot in the library parking lot, and instead of reading my “Currently Reading” book, I’m hoping the WordPress app on my iPad will cooperate so I can get this post done before the end of my lunch hour.

Reading a book by a local author, CL Manning — Rhodesian Doll Hunt. It’s getting exciting and hard to put down!

Currently Reading

Rhodesian Doll Hunt by C.L. Manning

Book cover showing African nesting doll in a beatup backpack with a Boston Marathon patch from the 1970s
Rhodesian Doll Hunt by CL Manning

A Rhodesian Colonel, the leader of an American revolutionary group, a renowned scientist, and a Bushman Elder in the Okavango…all want possession of a set of African nesting dolls?

Currently Not Reading

I am still at the same place I was last week in all three of these books, as I haven’t devoted much time to reading lately. I’m definitely doing something wrong!

The Book of Love by Kelly Link

The Book of Love (Random House, 2024) by Kelly Link

I borrowed the ebook of The Book of Love from the library, not realizing it was 640 pages long! (Now I can count it towards Big Book Summer!)

In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.

Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

Feel Free (Penguin, 2018) by Zadie Smith

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 
A New York Times Notable Book

How to Love a Jamaican: Stories by Alexia Arthurs

How to Love a Jamaican: Stories (Picador, 2018) by Alexia Arthurs

Filled with both tenderness and cruelty, ambition and regret, How to Love a Jamaican is a compelling examination of identity, culture, and the nuances of human disposition.

Recently Listened To

Make It So by Patrick Stewart

Make It So is my first completed 400+-page audiobook for Big Book Summer! We just finished this on our weekend road trip for a big family birthday gathering.

Currently Listening To

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them

Love this book! It is great on audio, too!

NPR Laughter Therapy: A Comedy Collection for the Chronically Serious by Peter Siegel et al.

I had this one bookmarked for a short road trip on Libby, since it’s only 2 hours long. But the Patrick Stewart memoir was 19 hours, so we didn’t finish Laughter Therapy, which is made up of clips from various NPR shows, including taped interviews with comedians Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller.

This post is linked up to “It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?”, hosted by The Book Date. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a place to meet up and share what you have been and are currently reading each week. Visit the link-up for more books to your groaning TBR pile.