What Fiction are you reading this week, September 3, 2023? [View all]
Enjoy your Labor Day
Cozy
I'm reading A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction. Meet Bennie, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha his troubled assistant. "Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each others pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters. Sly, startling, exhilarating work." I find that an apt description.
I just listened to Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower, the first book in an all-new Emily Dickinson historical mystery series. Set during the politically turbulent time just prior to the Civil War, Emily and her new housemaid set out to find the reason behind a tragic and surprising death in the town stable. Quite good. Book 2 is due out this November.
Now I am listening to We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, "an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families -- the ones we are born into and the ones we create."
What fictional characters will you be meeting this week?
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