She’s 48 though – not that she looks like it, of course. A celebrity 48 is slightly different from the average human.
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I noticed that too. I was shocked that she was 48!
As per usual, thanks to @Mary13 for making the CC Book Club happen. Best book club ever!
What else are you reading, before you start Wuthering Heights of course?
I picked up The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose at the library yesterday. I’ve read and enjoyed Prose’s two Molly the Maid books. Anyway, this one is a novella. I’ll start and finish it today.
My IRL book club chose Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea for its Jan. discussion. I’ll probably start it today.
And I have How to Read a Book by Monica Wood on hold at library at the moment. It was briefly considered as a discussion choice here, I think, and also on the Best Books thread.
Anyone else care to share what’s up next?
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Echoing thanks to @Mary13 for always herding the cats so gently!
I recently enjoyed The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. A midwife in 1780s Maine gets drawn into a murder investigation. It’s a novel based on a real woman’s life. I can imagine this as a future book club pick – lots to talk about.
I was enchanted by Katherine Rundell’s Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures. Science/environmental nonfiction that reads almost like fantasy. Beautifully written.
I had to read more by Katherine Rundell and found out she’s a scholar at St. Andrews in Scotland and a specialist in the poet John Donne – and is working on a novel based on him. But in her spare time she writes YA books. Wow, what a mind!
- Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms is loosely based on her growing-up years in Zimbabwe.
- Impossible Creatures is a Harry Potter-esque adventure of kids solving deep problems in an adjacent world. Plus griffins.
- I have a library hold on her Rooftoppers, which has won awards.
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I’m currently reading the Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, which I think was recommended by someone here. I’m enjoying is so far!
Just finished Somewhere Beyond the Sea by Klune (a sequel) which I also enjoyed.
Up next: Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (also recommended here ; ))
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I am reading Royal Assassin the second book in a series (of interconnected trilogies) by Robin Hobbs that has been around since 1995, but I somehow never read. There’s a brand new edition with very pretty color illustrations.
On my Kindle I’m reading a short story collection (Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers) because there’s one by Steven Miller and Sharon Lee who wrote the Liaden sci-fi series which is one of my favorites. There’s also a nice story by Becky Chambers who is another favorite author. The collection claims to be space opera, but I think it has too many military oriented stories. It also has some very old stories - there’s one by Heinlein where they all take a cigarette break in space! It’s an interesting collection though I’ve run into a couple of clunkers including one I didn’t finish so far.
Next up is the only Becky Chambers I have not read yet. To Be Taught if Fortunate. She writes character driven stories about nice people. LGBQT friendly.
I’d like to be reading something that is not sci-fi or fantasy, but don’t know what to choose off my huge want to read list. Possibly another book by Nichols, possibly James, possibly I’ll finally try to read The Dream of the Red Chamber, or maybe get past page 50 in One Hundred Years of Solitude?
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I just read The Frozen River also and really enjoyed it!
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Love me some Robin Hobb! I read her Farseer Trilogy and followed it with her Liveship Traders Trilogy. And of course I purchased that new edition with the color illustrations: one for me, one for my eldest daughter, and one for the youngest daughter. I’m not the only one who loves Robin Hobb in the family. (I also own the paperback editions.)
For anyone interested: Where to Start with Robin Hobb: A Reading Guide - Northern Bibliophile
Becky Chambers has been on my radar for a while. Youngest daughter loves her books.
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Read- Eleizabeth Strout - Tell Me Everything gave it five stars Goodreads
Anne Tyler - vinegar Girl - gave 4 stars
Audio Books - Ketanji Brow Jackson — Lovely One- A Memoir
Uplifting and she is excellent narrator
Cher- Part One- the Memoir
Wow, I will never look at Cher the same, after hearing the first few chapters about her maternal side generations of immense struggle, abuse, abandonment, Cher was placed in an orphanage at one point as a baby…….
Cher narrates and another woman who sounds so much like Cher.
Silly me I thought Chers memoir might put me to sleep when I wake so early, just the opposite it kept me awake, so far early chapters
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Completely nonsensical! I looked up Sheba Blake Publishing and that cover is mild compared to some of their others. None of them make any sense, nor–apparently–are they supposed to. For example, here is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott:
And this is Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence:
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Oh, that is wild!
Strange book covers!
For my RL Book Club: The November read was “The Bird Hotel” by Joyce Maynard, which I had also read for “Books on the Beach” this summer. My rating: 5 stars. For this month the book is “Hotline” by Dimitri Nasrallah; my rating: 4 stars. The January pick is “You Are Here,” which I won’t be rereading, LOL.
I recently read “West With Giraffes” by Lynda Rutledge, which had been on my Kindle for a while; my rating: 4 stars. I just finished Ina Garten’s memoir, “Be Ready When Luck Happens.” My rating: 4 stars. I’m currently reading “What the Light Touches” by Xavier Bosch, which was an Amazon Prime First Reads pick this month. They jury is still out on this one.
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I’m currently reading The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. It’s a more straightforward story than North Woods, about a young medical student working at an outpost in the Carpathian Mountains during World War I. It’s very good, but you have to be in the mood for cold and bleak.
For February: Wuthering Heights - February CC Book Club Selection
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Right now I am reading **The Great Quake **by Henry Fountain. It is about the great earthquake of 1964. Very fascinating.
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James became available to me at the library on Monday. I picked it up Tuesday – along with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – and have started reading it. I got through Huck Finn in about two hours. I’m greatly enjoying James; it’s also a fast read.
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I have it on pretty good authority that I will be getting James for Christmas. 
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I just finished it. Loved it!!
I also discovered that the version of Huckleberry Finn I took out of the children’s section of the library was the abridged version. I got the “real” version today – that one, they keep with the Adult Fiction.
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