Currently Reading
I finished both of the books I was reading yesterday. I had so many choices available to me from my TBR list, but I browsed through NetGalley and requested a few more advance reading copies (ARCs) of upcoming releases. (They sounded too good to resist!)
But for this week, I’m reading two that are already in my possession – one old and one new.
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub!
A LibraryReads Pick for March 2023!
From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.
From my NetGalley shelf of ARCs, I have Jeannette Walls’ Hang the Moon. I’m not sure why I requested this novel except that I liked The Glass Castle so much (Historical fiction isn’t my favorite genre.) but it will be a good one to read for Women’s History Month.
Light from a Distant Star by Mary McGarry Morris
Massachusetts Book Awards 2012 Must-Read Fiction
Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s “Scout.”
For the MassBook Reading Challenge this month, I’m going to read Light from a Distant Star by Mary McGarry Morris – a MassBook Awards Must-Read Fiction honoree the year it was published. This one will do double duty, as it’s also on my 2023 TBR Pile Challenge list!
Recently Read
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is a memoir of the poet’s childhood years and coming of age. It’s been on my TBR (To Be Read) for years, until I put it on my 2023 TBR Pile Challenge list and finally read it. I am sorry I waited so long, but it turned out to be good companion nonfiction to read in February while I listened to The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ends abruptly when the author is sixteen. I now discover that there are six more autobiographies after this one! But isn’t that the way of the TBR list? You cross off one and add six more.
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