WHAT I ACCOMPLISHED
I set myself a goal of reading 12 books from the summer reading list I created. True to form, I did not read all the books on the list, but I read some other good books in addition. Here’s my reading report.
I did well on the fiction side and read seven of the nine titles. They were as follows:
Fiction
Many Rivers to Cross by Peter Robinson (this instead of the listed mystery I discovered I’d already read)
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls (excellent!)
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (4 stars)
Horse by Geraldine Brooks (5 stars)
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (3 stars)
Trust by Hernan Diaz (appreciated it after I finished it)
The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear (Winspear is back on her game!)
Note that I still plan to read This Other Eden and Three.
Nonfiction
As for nonfiction, I still have The Grimkes and The Lobster Coast on my stack. I read a long Atlantic excerpt of The Best Minds and so decided to skip reading the entire book.
OTHER NOTEWORTHY READS
Fiction
The Majority by Elizabeth Silver (Supreme Court justice loosely based on RBG, a fast read)
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (coming in a future post)
The English Teacher by Lily King
Think of Horses by Mary Clearman Blew
Nonfiction
Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron (memoir of illness & love, coming in a future post)
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel (memoir)
The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson (biography of Jennifer Doudna & history of gene editing; reading currently)
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