Jim is fine enough. But I had a meltdown over the weekend that left me feeling weak, horrid, awful, and generally enervated. Meanwhile, we carry on as best we may. Jim is a total trooper, he is my heart's desire.
The book club here in the elder Country Club is trying to recruit me. Their current selection is the new Jodi Picoult and I am beside myself trying not to be ... scabrous. Well ... they need to know, right? In compensation I've submitted a list of tomes they will adore:
The book club here in the elder Country Club is trying to recruit me. Their current selection is the new Jodi Picoult and I am beside myself trying not to be ... scabrous. Well ... they need to know, right? In compensation I've submitted a list of tomes they will adore:
City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin -- WWII mystery set in Berlin
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie -- an academic literature professor goes off campus with a cowboy in London
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr -- an American couple move to Mexico to run a mine, there is so much more.
http://tinyurl.com/hzcq79q
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan -- in the midwest, an older woman makes her way alone with a friend nearby; and deals with her far afield family.
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan -- in the midwest, an older woman makes her way alone with a friend nearby; and deals with her far afield family.
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith -- a rousing novel set in Victorian England, finest kind.
http://tinyurl.com/gtpy4lj
http://tinyurl.com/gtpy4lj
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen -- set in a convent in French Canada, a young nun is pregnant, is it a miracle?
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This is a fantastic list and the book club is lucky to have you. Have you read Our Souls at Night? That might make a nice companion for Emily, Alone.
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