What are you reading in 2024?

[KayLR]

Recently finished "The Berry Pickers," by Amanda Peters. It was pretty good, but not life-altering. Not what I thought it would be, but enjoyable nonetheless. About an native indigenous family who migrated from Canada each summer to pick berries in Maine. One of the children, a 4-year-old, becomes missing. The story toggles between her telling her story and her brother telling the family story from his point of view.

Started "A Single Thread" by Tracy Chevalier.

[rosarugosa]

Happy: I read Bridget Jones a long time ago, but I remember it as a fun book.
Catherine: I've read a lot of Jodi's books, although not in recent years. I always thought she could spin a good tale and get you thinking about both sides of some important issues.
Kay: I've wondered about The Berry Pickers, because I've heard mixed reviews. Sounds like you think it's worth reading?
I just started Lessons in Chemistry, which also has some mixed reviews but most seem to think it was a fun read.

[Rogar]

I'm reading "Shadow Divers" by Kurson. It's the non-fiction account of divers finding a previously unknown sunken WWII German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey in the 1990's and the efforts to identify it and recover a few artifacts. It's a very good story.

[hana]

Just finished reading the Apocalypse chef series. Eli "Nacho" Natches, lives in a post apocalyptic Kansas City in a gaming style environment trying to survive for the amusement of the Patrons who bet and can sponsor favorite players. Nacho's patron gives him a boon (gift) so powerful that he actually goes back in time to six months before the Juxtaposition, and does everything to make sure his best friends Reuben, a nerdy Marketing major, and Brie, a star Lacrosse player, survive.

[KayLR]

Happy: I read Bridget Jones a long time ago, but I remember it as a fun book.
Catherine: I've read a lot of Jodi's books, although not in recent years. I always thought she could spin a good tale and get you thinking about both sides of some important issues.
Kay: I've wondered about The Berry Pickers, because I've heard mixed reviews. Sounds like you think it's worth reading?
I just started Lessons in Chemistry, which also has some mixed reviews but most seem to think it was a fun read.

Give it a try, Rosa. I think you might like it.

[rosarugosa]

Give it a try, Rosa. I think you might like it.

I will add it to my list.

[Rogar]

The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides. A history of the final voyage of Cpt. James Cook. I've read a few other books by Sides and he is a favorite historian writer and always tells a fascinating story. A bit of his trivia, James Kirk of the Enterprise got his name after Captain Cook the explorer.

[catherine]

I just finished a very sweet, enjoyable book--Plainsong by Ken Haruf. The stripped down prose really appealed to me, as well as the story itself. I think I'm back to reading fiction. I'll go back to the library today and pick up something else.

[Rogar]

-Plainsong by Ken Haruf.

I read that a few years ago and mostly just remember that I really liked it. It's been talked about among my small circle of readers as an all time favorite.

[rosarugosa]

Catherine: I loved that book so much. Did you ever read Blessings by Anna Quindlen? That has a similar feel about it.

My April reads:
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez - this was a good historical fiction novel about young black women who were forcefully sterilized in 1973 by a federal government health agency in Montgomery, Alabama.
Red Notice by Bill Browder - NF - another good one about international finance and corruption in Russia.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - a fun novel about a young woman chemist in the fifties trying to be taken seriously as a scientist in a misogynistic society.