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Jen's Reads |
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The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
I am loving this novel! Harold, a newly retired man, sets out (without telling his wife) to travel 500 miles on foot to visit a former co-worker. This is one of those journey books where the main character makes a physical journey, but is also making a personal, interior journey as well. The story is set in Britain, so it's laced with the kind of understated, dry British humor I find charming. The women's book group is reading this for book group this month.
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MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
Next on my list is MaddAddam, the final book in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, which just released September 3rd! (The first two books in the series were Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood). |
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Sally's Reads |
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
I re-read The Round House for the final Sister Wolf book group of the season, and found it even richer the second time through. After Geraldine Coutts, a Native American woman, is brutally assaulted, her family struggles to help her heal from the experience and to secure justice. Her 13 year old son, Joe, is impatient with the pace of this process and, with his friends, does some investigating on his own. Erdrich highlights significant issues for Native Americans while telling an absorbing story. The book was just released in paperback.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
When I wanted to read something light after The Round House, Jen suggested this book. It was just what I needed!
Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbed out of the window of his nursing home rather than attend his 100th birthday party. With only slippers on his feet, Allan embarked on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator. It’s satire, it’s funny—and it’s the third book I’ve read recently where the main character has inappropriate footwear!
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Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Louisa Clark is an ordinary young woman who has barely been outside her small village. She takes a job working as a caregiver for Will Traynor, a worldly man who was paralyzed after an accident. Although Will is acerbic, moody, and bossy, his happiness soon means a great deal to Lou. When she learns that he has a shocking plan, she attempts to show him that life is still worth living. The book asks, "What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?” Although the story is predictable, I found it touching. I listened to the audio book during my commute to and from the store.
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ann's Read |
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How The Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
I haven’t read many mysteries, but I became interested in Louise Penny's books when I heard the positive comments of customers. I read the newly released How The Light Gets In, A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel. The story takes place between Montreal and the small mountain village of Three Pines. There are two mysteries going on involving families, friendship, murder, and corruption. I enjoyed the descriptions of both the characters and places in the story. There was enough suspense to keep me guessing and wanting to read more. I have just picked up Still Life, the first in the Inspector Gamache series. I have a feeling that I'll be back for more.
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Gail's Reads |
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The Invisible Ones
by Steph Penney
Ray Lovell is a private detective looking for a missing girl. Her family and the family she marries into are modern day gypsies. Both families are very close-mouthed about her disappearance, so digging out the clues is tough work but Ray is determined to find out what happened. This is a good mystery with lots of interesting characters and we also learn about the gypsy culture as we read.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
I thought I needed to read this for my winter book club. After I read it, I discovered it's Treasure Island I need to read! However, all I remembered about Tom Sawyer was Tom and Becky lost in the cave, so it was fun to reread all the adventures Tom and his friends had. This book is just as interesting for adults as children, so if you missed it, give it a try now.
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Hannah's Reads |
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Elsewhere
by Richard Russo
This is one extraordinary, powerful book. Russo seems to be writing a book about his mother, but in the end it becomes clear it’s a book about himself, and how character forms an artist, and small towns, and America in the 21st century. It’s as readable as his novels, but it’s so much more. Whatever I pick up next will feel light-weight after this.
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Double Play
by Robert Parker
A Spenser-like character becomes Jackie Robinson’s bodyguard in this novel. There seems to be a bit of memoir thrown in: scattered Bobby chapters, and memories of a boy in love with baseball in the same era. I bet if you can read box scores the book will have even more meaning. |
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The Mission Song
by John le Carré
The Mission Song is a grand le Carré novel. He says on his website that his actual intelligence operation experience was nothing like that in his novels, and he certainly wasn’t born in a mission in the Congo. So how does he makes these worlds so palpable? I think it must be a gift from his father, a “confidence trickster and a gaol bird” according to le Carré’s website. We believe because the narrator is so seductive.
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Iain's Read |
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Unwind
by Neal Schusterman
In the near future, the United States has fought a second civil war, this time over the right to live. Now life is sacred until the age of thirteen and from eighteen until death. Between 13 and 18, parents can have their child unwound, in which the child is completely reused as donor parts. The story follows three teenagers fighting for their right to live.
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