What are you reading in 2025?

[Tradd]

I'm about 60% done with the Red Scare book. It is VERY appropriate to what we are currently going through.

[hana]

Finished A Murder to Die For by Russell Cooper. Cecil and Ambrose being creatures of habit peruse the Classifieds section of The Sunday Time as they used it in their careers as Mi-6 analysts, they see a coded message from a deceased Russian spy complete with a meeting in a posh London restaurant. Turns out Boris the spy is very much alive and asking for their help solving a twenty year old murder of a teenage girl in an all girls academy.

This time a teacher was tried and convicted of her murder. Boris claims the former teacher is innocent and has proof.

Fun witty banter, cold war intrigue, and the local bake off.

[catherine]

I'm almost done with the nonfiction book I mentioned--Against the Machine--but I'm simultaneously listening to Lessons in Chemistry on my daily walks. I've had it on Kindle for a long time, but never really got into it after only a chapter or two. At my annual gathering with my college friends, one of them raved about it, so I started listening to it. Midway through, and I really like it. I think a lot of women my age would appreciate how well the author characterizes what it was like to be a female in the 50s. Aside from that, the story is really compelling.

[rosarugosa]

I'm almost done with the nonfiction book I mentioned--Against the Machine--but I'm simultaneously listening to Lessons in Chemistry on my daily walks. I've had it on Kindle for a long time, but never really got into it after only a chapter or two. At my annual gathering with my college friends, one of them raved about it, so I started listening to it. Midway through, and I really like it. I think a lot of women my age would appreciate how well the author characterizes what it was like to be a female in the 50s. Aside from that, the story is really compelling.

It wasn't The Great American Novel or anything, but I thought it was a fun read.

[nswef]

Midnight on the Potomac not the kind of book I am drawn to. Non fiction Civil War...but I am finding it interesting and learning some things I didn't know. One is that Sherman's march to the sea dragged along thousands of newly emancipated families who ended up helping. It is written well for non history buffs.

[pinkytoe]

Hope by Jane Goodall and Place of Tides by James Rebanks.