Books on the Nightstand discussion

I'm reading both The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and the Conversation Poems and Little and Often: A Memoir and listening to The Guncle


Hard to believe that 2021 is half over.

Happy July!
I am reading Marilynne Robinson's novel, 'Home'. This is the second in her series of novels set in Gilead, Iowa: 'Gilead', 'Home', Lila' and 'Jack'. I read 'Gilead', which I enjoyed, but found to be not particularly easy reading. 'Home' trips along better and is also full of Robinson's subtle wit and insightful observations of life and relationships with both God and our fellow earthlings.

Guess what I did this weekend? I drove to Michigan so I finished listening to The Guncle then Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service and finished reading Little and Often: A Memoir.
I've started listening to Of Women and Salt and reading The Plot

I’m reading three books all for various bookclubs.
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Finished Of Women and Salt.
Starting How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Finished Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

& also People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life, The Plot, The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History, A House in the Country, and The Bench.
Going to start Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

I'm a reading machine. Given either hot, muggy weather or the torrential downpour, I'll be in the air-conditioned bedroom with Sasquatch, the dog and reading my life away.
I finished Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR and listening to Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (I highly recommend both).

Started listening to The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

And reading to end a book I started listening to (and had to return before I finished) JFK Jr., George, & Me: A Memoir

First, you are everybody’s hero and second my dog eats books.

Gerald wrote: "First, you are everybody’s hero and second my dog eats books."

1. I don't think I'm everybody's hero.
2. My dog came to us by walking through the sliding doors at the hotel where my husband worked (no reservation, no credit card...) He, the dog, was a mess (STUNK to high heaven). He knows he could be back on the street if he ate one of my books. Sometimes he's jealous of the book - "Mom! Use that hand holding the book to scratch me!"

Finished The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Highly recommend.

Started listening to The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Finished Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

My Review:
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Finished listening to both The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine and Somebody's Daughter
Reading The Price of Salt and finishing a listen of On the House: A Washington Memoir then I'll move to a listen of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Finished Kristy's Great Idea by Raina Telgemeier & Ann M. Martin

My Review:
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Finished The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Started and finished James Herriot's Animal Stories

Finished Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

My Review:
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Just finished listening to very long PARIS by Edward Rutherford. Exciting history with a great ending.

Gerald wrote: "Just finished listening to very long PARIS by Edward Rutherford. Exciting history with a great ending."

Rutherford is a favorite of mine and such a good writer. His books may be a bit of a challenge in length but as you stated he makes history exciting so worth the effort. Good to hear you liked this. I have not read this one.

Gerald wrote: "Just finished listening to very long PARIS by Edward Rutherford. Exciting history with a great ending."

I have his new one, China, on hold at the library. My wait is 6 months!