What Fiction are you reading this week, March 24, 2024? [View all]
( postimage.com is dead. A real pisser as I have hundreds of photos stored there.)
Reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. There seems to be something magical about this book. I started reading it and didn't want to put it down. Not because of any mystery but just because it was such a pleasure to read. It starts in a dilapidated PA neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. I have no connection to any of these things but the writing made me feel comfortably at home with them. Now I can't wait to get back to it. This book was one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023 and I can sure see why.
Listening to Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. I'm liking this, too. It's an intense tale of a small jet that crashes into the ocean and only 2 passengers survive. A painter and a little boy. The rest of the passengers were wealthy and well known so a major investigation ensues. Was it merely by dumb chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something far more sinister at work? Events soon threaten to spiral out of control in an escalating storm of media outrage and accusations. It gets pretty wild.
What books are you liking this week?
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