What are you peeps reading in the interim? I’m halfway through Demon Copperhead and really enjoying it. It’s been decades since I read David Copperfield and I’m kind of amazed about how many details keep coming back to me as I work my way through Kingsolver’s novel.
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Just finished the Women, and am now starting Extinction. (It’s all based on what’s available from Libby).
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@Mary13 , I almost gave up on demon copperhead, and so glad I didn’t. Demon is a memorable character! Enjoy.
Recently started “ The unseen world” A friend highly recommended it.
Listening to Ann Tyler’s “ three days in June “
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I’m reading We Can Do Hard Things for a neighborhood book club and I absolutely positively do not recommend it. I’m also re-reading Stiff by Mary Roach – I love her books – and reading for the first time Malcolm Gladwell’s Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is so good. And I just finished What Is the What by David Eggers.
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I am currently finishing Assistant to the Villain, so have officially dipped my toe into romantasy. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this one with its touches of humor.
Real Americans waits patiently for me on my bedside table. I need to read it by June 30 as its a book club book.
Books I’m picking up tomorrow at the library (with a goal to catch up on several series and/or finish trilogies):
The Case of the Reincarnated Client (Vish Puri #5). Good mystery series.
Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar #7)
Three Days in June is also waiting for me to pick up.
The Bird Hotel is currently in transit to me as are All the Colors of the Dark, The Briar Club, and God of the Woods.
I requested them all at the same time but I didn’t expect them to be sent at the same time. Eek!
All that said, thanks once again to our intrepid book club leader. As usual, great job!
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I’ve been reading a bunch! Some highlights:
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler. Light on the surface, deep underneath.
The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines, Pippa Latour. This was published posthumously after she died at age 102. Highly recommended to fans of The Alice Network (and she knew some of those women).
Two contemporary coming-of-age novels set in New York City – totally different stories!
Playworld, Adam Ross
The Leavers, Lisa Ko
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan. I read it in one afternoon, but I predict I’ll be thinking of it for years. The audiobook is wonderful, too – under two hours listening time.
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Thank you! I’m going to Ireland next week and was looking for something to read on the plane. I just bought Small Things Like These. I also have short stories by Liam O’Flaherty, so I’ll be settling in with some fine depressing Irish literature.
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Enjoy Ireland! (I’m hoping it’s a trip meant for enjoyment only.)
'Tis
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@mary13 wonderful, trip to Ireland ! Wow, enjoy, let us know what they are reading in Ireland 
Pick up any of the Tana French books. Page turners and set in Ireland!
Chiming in late. The library sent me a “jump the line” libby copy that’s only good for 2 weeks. I just finished. I always enjoy reading everyone’s comments even when I haven’t been able to read the book yet. I really don’t find that they spoil anything. Overall I enjoyed it until the end. No matter how I imagined it I could not physically picture how they were in position for a precise cut. Other than that the story did draw me in.
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This Washington Post piece on the “book boyfriend” made me think about our discussion of Ephraim (too good to be true?) in The Frozen River … and the romance novels we read in the previous cycle. Who knew we were tapping into a trend? 
Some fun book suggestions here, too. (Gift link)
https://wapo.st/4nfb3UJ
As usual I am juggling too many books.
Just finished Helen Hoang’s The Heart Quotient. Steamy sex, recently diagnosed with autism heroine, too good to be true hero (but with his own issues), an overbearing family and a crisis which triggers more crises. Not quite your typical romance.
Am working on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell at a glacial pace. I’m really not enjoying the characters and I don’t think the excessive wordiness is adding to my enjoyment. One of my SIL’s just loves it, so I feel semi obliged to trudge on!
I am really enjoying a Spanish YA book called El Libro Salvage (The Wild Book) about a boy who spends the summer with his eccentric uncle and his crazy library looking for a book that doesn’t seem to want to be found.
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I feel your pain. Once upon a time, I too trudged through Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
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Ooh I just realized that the next in the series of long books I have not been trudging through (Robin Hobb’s many series set in the Realm of the Elderlings) is available through my Cape Cod library card! I had actually looked for it when I was there, but did not think to look for a bundle instead of the book that my library was missing. They have it as an ebook, so it doesn’t matter that I am not there right now.
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I loved, loved, loved this book. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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So glad you loved it! Isn’t she a wonderful writer? Now I recommend you read Foster. One more afternoon!
And if you like audiobooks – Small Things has a warm Irish-sounding narrator who really does it justice. Two hours!
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