Back again this week, late as usual!! This week's reading stack has some new exciting
books to share.
"The Boy Who Loved Too Much" by Jennifer Latson
is the "true story of pathological friendliness." Twelve-year-old Eli has a genetic disorder
that takes away all of his social inhibitions and makes him "unconditionally
loving toward everyone he meets." Is
it wrong to be friendly toward everyone you meet?
"Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore" by Matthew
Sullivan is still in the stack. It is a
first novel that takes place in and around a bookstore. There is murder, mystery, hidden messages in
books, long-buried memories unearthed, etc. and I am only a little over a
hundred pages into it. I can only
imagine what the rest of the book holds for me.
"Refuge" by Dina Nayeri cover two decades of a
relationship between a daughter and her father.
The daughter escaped to live in America while the father stayed behind
in Iran. They only get to visit four
times over two decades. Soon the
daughter starts receiving troubling e-mail messages from the father's e-mail
address. She is torn as to how to
respond. Does she leave her Western life
behind to seek out what these messages might mean?
"Woman at 1,000 Degrees" by Hallgrimur Helgason
introduces us to Herra Björnsson, an 80 year-old female who "lives here
alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and a hand grenade" in
Reykjavik, Iceland. She shares her life
experiences which have taken her "from Iceland to Nazi Germany, from the
United States to Argentina, and back to a post-crash, high-tech, modern
Iceland." She has decided "to
control her own fate" much to her family's dismay, and sets "a date
for her cremation -- at a toasty 1,000 degrees." This book will be released January 9, 2018.
"The Library at the Edge of the World" by
Felicity Hayes-McCoy takes us to Ireland's West Coast where Hanna Casey drives
her mobile library van between the villages of her youth. Can she forget the ghosts of her past and
start her life again?
"The Hidden Letters of Velta B." by Gina
Ochsner is a little bit of historical fiction and a little bit of magical
realism, secrets, love, and memories all crammed into one book.
I continue to use my favorite Klimt tea cup for my daily
chai.
What is in your reading stack this week?
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