Plenty of good reading this month. I continued a bit with books with "last" in the title. Two (not giving the titles here) went back to the library unread but four were read. The Jenoff was a sorry mess from a author I usually like. The Irving and the Cash were fine but not the best works from either of these authors, Tropper was new to me and I enjoyed it and may look for more.
The rest of the fiction was good. In the nonfiction the Eden book was so-so, Baker was historically interesting, and McFadden was disturbing but good. As for the shoes, a random picture....
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| from: Ladies’ Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century |
Fiction:
The Garden by Newman, Nick
The Fisherman's Gift by Kelly, Julia R
Killer Potential by Deitch, Hannah
The Covenant of Water by Verghese, Abraham
Wild Dark Shore by McConaghy, Charlotte
33 Place Brugmann by Austen, Alice
Private Rites by Armfield, Julia
Idle Grounds by Bamford, Krystlle
The Sweet Spot by Poeppel, Amy
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Khan, Shubnum
Forty Year Kiss by Butler, Nickolas
Mutual Interest by Wofgang-Smith, Olivia
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories by Peters, Amanda
Forty Year Kiss by Butler, Nickolas
Mutual Interest by Wofgang-Smith, Olivia
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories by Peters, Amanda
The Night Ship by Kidd, Jess
The Story She Left Behind by Henry, Patti Callahan,
The Last Ballad by Cash, Wiley
Last Night in Twisted River by Irving, John
One Last Thing Before I Go by Tropper, Jonathan
The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Jenoff, Pam
Poetry/Verse:
Nonfiction:
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by McFadden, Bernice L.
Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Baker, Josephine. Contributors: Zafar, Anam, translator; Lewis, Sophie, translator; Oluo, Ijeoma, author of introduction, etc.; Sauvage, Marcel, author of introduction, etc.; Bouillon-Baker, Jean-Claude, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels by Eden, Caroline
Her travels include Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Baltics, and Poland. Her home kitchen is in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ladies' dress shoes of the nineteenth century (With Sixty-three Illustrations) by T. Watson Greig
Online:
The Kindness of Strangers by D'Stair, Sarah
