I was going for 45 books this year, to meet a writerly challenge set out by some writing friends, but now I think, why not a book a week? That said, some books won’t be bloggable, because I might be too embarrassed to mention them by name, whether they were forced upon me by book clubs, or are part of the guilty ‘lite’ read shelf.
Please share any books you have recently read and loved! I’m always looking for recommendations.
What I’m reading right now: Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers
Here are a few of the books (spoiler free and with just a hint of the gist) I’ve enjoyed since taking up the challenge on January 1:
The Divinity Gene (short stories) by Matthew Trafford – inventive and wild – ‘fantastical and fantastic’
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – the mystery surrounding an historical text and its conservator
Wild by Cheryl Strayed – memoir of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail to transcend loss
The Dinner by Herman Koch – mystery asks how far you’d go to protect your child
Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson – set in Georgia, lilting and lush, smart and funny voice, unpredictable and bittersweet plot
Seven for a Secret by Mary C. Sheppard – captures the Newfoundland Outport life of youth before the highways and centralization changed everything
BOOKS I READ BEFORE THE CHALLENGE AND LOVED IN 2014 INCLUDE:
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Between Gods and Far to Go by Alison Pick
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
February by Lisa Moore