Reading list, mid-May
Twenty-five books read and documented here. Thirty more to go for 55@55. Here’s what’s on my reading list: Every Day …
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25 of 55: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Although Chad Harbach’s debut novel has a contemporary setting, sprinkled with up-to-date sex and drugs, it also feels old-fashioned. In …
24 of 55: The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
I’d jotted down The Forgotten Waltz on one or two reading lists, but I’d overlooked it until browsing the shelves …
23 of 55: How Georgia Became O’Keeffe by Karen Karbo
Author Karen Karbo knows her audience; she suggests that the reader either received this book as a gift or picked …
22 of 55: Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
I’ve been dipping into Jane Kenyon’s Otherwise: New and Selected Poems for the last few weeks, and will note it …
21 of 55: Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
It’s true. I love reading Maeve Binchy. Skimming her list of past titles, I realized I’ve read almost all of …
20 of 55: The Doctor and the Diva by Adrienne McDonnell
Looking for an absorbing book to read on the night train to Alexandria, I took a chance on the blandly …
19 of 55: A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer Fleming
What a startling image: a fountain filled with blood. Spencer-Fleming takes the title of her second novel from a William …
18 of 55: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
I was afraid something like this would happen: I’d get ahead of myself on the reading side of the equation, …
17 of 55: Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
It’s Easter morning. No Easter eggs hunts or getting ready for Mass or even Quaker meeting for us, though. We …
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