Two weeks have just whizzed by without a blog post. I did remember my blog password without having to look it up, so there’s that. If there are any faithful readers still checking in with me and reading this now, thank you to you both!
Currently Reading
Search by Michele Huneven
“A wicked pleasure . . . Huneven is a wise storyteller . . . this novel has plot, character, structure and a delicious, deeply human pettiness that I think most honest readers will relate to . . . [Huneven’s] descriptions of food are the best I’ve ever read.” — Mary Beth Keane, New York Times Book Review
Search is written in the form of a fictional memoir about the “author’s” experience on the search committee for a new church minister, complete with recipes. Just started it a couple of days ago, but I am loving it.
Michele Huneven is an author whose new books I thought I had kept up with since reading Blame from the library when it was new in 2009, and being so impressed. It was easy because there was has been only one other book since then – Off Course in 2014. But I see now that the author had two earlier novels published before Blame, which was a finalist for some big literary awards and received a lot of great reviews.
The God of Lost Words by A. J. Hackwith
The God of Lost Words (Ace, 2021) is third in the Hell’s Library trilogy (?) by A.J. Hackwith.
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