Currently Reading
Lake Success (Random House, 2018) by Gary Shteyngart
Lake Success (Random House, 2018) by Gary Shteyngart was a recent birthday gift from my husband, so I started it right away and let all my library loans expire! 😉
The narrator of the novel is a man who has had a run of bad luck but has also royally screwed up. The combination makes him cast off his old life and go on a road trip trying to get back to a time when he was happy. He’s not a likeable character, but I guess he is sympathetic because I do feel sorry for him and am hoping he can sort himself out.
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, Sept. 2021) by Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is definitely going to be one of my top favorite books of the year, so I bought my own copy when I was about a third or half of the way through it and returned the library copy I had. Coming close to the end over the weekend, I finally realized I had accidentally skipped over a chunk in the middle and needed to go back. The book is divided into several story and time lines, so while I had noticed events had skipped forward, I didn’t realize that it wasn’t written that way.
So I have more of this great book left than I thought. Which is a good thing!
Temporarily Not Reading
When Things Get Dark (Titan, 2021) edited by Ellen Datlow
My ebook loan from the library expired before I could finish this collection of short stories, so I’m waiting for it to come back around again. I hope I’ll reach the top of the holds list before next October!
Currently Listening To
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Recently Listened To
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is definitely a favorite audiobook of 2021! All of the narrators – Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland & Dion Graham – are so good.
More on this next week, as I absolutely cannot let the library loan expire before I finish. It’s almost 17 hours long!
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