This is all to say that while January's been a great month so far in a lot of ways, it hasn't included a lot of reading time. But as we start to wave goodbye to the last of the boxes (I think? I hope), and with only a few rooms left to paint (I am seriously so very sick of painting...) I'm looking forward to some more time curled up in front of the fire with a good book:
The Bullet, by Mary Louise Kelly: This is one of those read-in-one-sitting kinds of reads. I barely looked up once I started this story of a 37-year-old woman who has an x-ray only to discover she has a bullet lodged in her neck--and no memory of how it got there. Full review and author interview to come in Shelf Awareness in March.
Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe, by Ritu Sharma: The aforementioned indie bookstore has a book club centered on women and their extraordinary series, and this is their pick for January; it's also right up my alley in terms of what I do for a living, so I can't wait to dive in.
Trigger Warning, by Neil Gaiman: New Gaiman! I'm trying to savor the stories in this collection with limited success--they are just as strange and whimsical as anyone could want them to be, coming from Gaiman. Read Harder Challenge (Collection of Short Stories)
The Sharma book sounds right up my street as well.
ReplyDeleteTeach a Woman to Fish sounds like the kind of book that needs to be read. Will have to add it to my to purchase list! Hope you have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThese all sound fantastic! I have somehow never read Neil Gaiman, but I need to! Good luck settling into your new house :)
ReplyDeleteWHAT! How is that possible!? (My two cents: Start with The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and if you like audio, listen to it--Gaiman is one of the few authors I've heard read his own work so well that the audio is better than the print. Granted, I haven't read the full gamut of his works--he's written a ton of books--so that rec is not exactly a balanced and studied suggestion.)
ReplyDeleteIt's very good--hope you enjoy it if you do pick it up!
ReplyDeleteIt's the kind of book I want to underline. A lot.
ReplyDeleteI will keep that in mind! I have an Audible credit I haven't decided how to use yet, so I might just try Ocean at the End of the Lane!
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited for you and your new house! We did one car for the first few years we lived here and didn't have much trouble. Good luck with the unpacking!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm excited too... will be even more so when we get bookshelves built or purchased or something so I can unpack all these boxes of books and wonder why I kept so many books I'll never read, anyway.
ReplyDeleteOh man...The Bullet sounds amazing!! Hope you have a great week of reading. :)
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I'm reading Trigger Warning right now too! The story I read most recently, Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, was prooooobably my favorite so far, but I've enjoyed almost all of them.
ReplyDeleteIt was so good! Fast-paced and addictive. I got to talk to the author this week as well and the story behind the story is just as fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI just finished that one last night! I love the twisted way Gaiman's stories unfold, like you never know what's coming--on any level--until it hits you in the face, and then it's like, of course that was where this was going.
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