@Consolation I have a similar virtual interview with Emily St John Mandel. 
Try Dear Edward by Ann Napolitino. Story of a boy who is only survivor of a plane crash. Quirky. Well-told.
@surfcity I would love to have BOTH links!
Yesterday I started reading essays on Mandelās website. 
@surfcity Yes, please, I would also love both links! I have been enjoying many virtual author visits provided by various indie bookstores since the shutdown has prevented the series of in-person talks hosted by my local library system and JCC.
Is anyone watching the series made from the book Barkskins? I really liked the book and so far am enjoying the series. Itās on Nat Geo.
On 3/11, I posted that I was reading this great book called The Warmth of Other Suns. Iām so glad I read it when I read it.
As an immigrant from another country, I never really knew about African-American peopleās history and experience in America. I mean, I knew about the general stuff on the news and movies, but never really knew how and why.
I want to read and learn more about this topic especially now.
I check this thread for suggestions and enjoyed Dark Matter by Blake Couch.
I read on a Kindle and was waiting for Recursion to drop in price. Itās $2.99 on Amazon, after being $12.99 for a long timeā¦just wanted to share.
Just finished Emma Straubās All Adults Here and was a little disappointed.
l really loved one of her previous books, The Vacationers, but didnāt think this was as good. Maybe itās because I recently read Olive Again, and the portrait of the older woman whoās the protagonist in All Adults Here isnāt as raw and real to me.
Thank you to whoever suggested Year of Wonders, a beautifully written historical fiction about the 1666 plague. An uplifting book despite the difficult topic. A very quick read as well.
@calla1 ā yes, I really enjoyed it too!
I wish I could get to 50 books a year!!! It would help clear out my to-read shelf, which I recently had to expand to two shelves. At my current pace, I have enough unread books to last 3 years. And of course, Iāll keep buying new books by favored authors, and picking up older books of authors I like but havenāt exhausted their output.
My reading habits are that I canāt really settle into a habitual routine. Sometimes, Iāll read three books in a month, spending every spare moment with my nose in a book. Other times, Iāll be lucky to read 50 pages in two months. I usually get through 20-30 books a year, but itās not a steady flow.
I think I suggested Year of Wonders - it is a book I frequently recommend (even before the pandemic)- donāt know anybody who hasnāt liked it.
@AlmostThere2018 I am about 2/3 through All Adults Here. I have not read any of her other books but had a copy of this available to read so I started it. Itās an interesting structure, rotating POVs. To me itās a bit light, but no great literature. Are there other books of hers you recommend.
@surfcity ā I liked her book The Vacationers much more. Similar in that itās a story about a family but just found it more real than All Adults Here.
The book by Straub I liked the most was Modern Lovers - I thought it captured the changes in Brooklyn really well. They are all pleasant enough light reads.
Interestingly, I think I read Modern Lovers and the Vacationers around the same time, but I had to google to check if I read the latter, because I didnāt remember anything about it. I did like ML. Her stuff is basically well-written, but on the light-ish side of literary reading. Good summer books.
I had to read this line twiceā¦then I got what you meant
I read a lot including popular fiction. I really enjoyed Jennifer Weinerās āBig Summerā. Currently trying to get into āRodhamā by Curtis Sittenfeld - Iām only about 40 pages in and so far it is pretty āmehā. Iāll give it maybe 50-60 more pages.
I have personal dislike of fiction written about actual people, especially living ones, so Iām giving that a pass. To be honest, I have not been able to get through anything of Sittenfeldās.
.I read her first book - Prep - and was underwhelmed. I think that making fiction about living people feels icky.
I wasnāt thrilled with āPrepā and havenāt read anything else by Sittenfeld since.
I read more of Rodham this evening, itās OK, Iāll probably finish it, but underwhelmed. I read it on the recommendation of my sister and am honestly surprised that she liked it.