This week's reading started out badly with a book I hated. It got better when some of my holds arrived at the library. Two by Némirovsky (read one, saved the other for next month), and Theft by Gurnah. Also a nonfiction about hot dogs (I won't get to that one this week).
In today's Goodreads givaways there is a book by Lily King and I remembered liking her short story collection so I added her novels to my TBR list and looked at her web site to see if she had any short works available online. She does. Her web site section "Short Works" list several so I spent the morning exploring her work and some sites it led me to. Some are behind pay walls and others didn't have much that interested me.
Here is what I read this week.
Fiction:
The Wine of Solitude by Némirovsky, Irène translated from the French by Smith, Sandra
Theft by Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Ruth Run by Kaufman, Elizabeth
A cyber criminal on the run in Northern California. Who are the good guys & who are the baddies? It doesn't matter, the chase is the thing. An OK book.
The Change by Miller, Kirsten
Yuck! Read about 1/3 through and started skimming and skipping hoping it would get better. What a mess! All the men are bad, the women are too. Also the writing.
The Last Word a story by Dorfman, Ariel
Nonfiction:
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star by Sen, Mayukh
OK biography
Artists’ Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France by Scott, Katie and Williams, Hannah
Fun to dip into now and again but not meant to be read straight through. Indexed by Artist, Type of Thing, Theme, and Material. Glad this is online.
Dislocation an essay by King, Lily
Nice illustrations by Calla King-Clements
When My Father Fell Apart, My Stepfather Was There For Me—And Him an essay by King, Lily
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