Play Book Tag discussion

What are you reading now?
What is it about?
How did you decided to read it?
Do you know what you will read next?
What?
How did you decide on that?

I am currently reading The Heart's Invisible Furies and listening to The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
The former is about a precocious kid in Ireland, an epic historical fiction w/ family drama.
The latter is a more light-hearted family drama featuring a fiercely independent book clerk who claims she doesn't like people but her overbooked social calendar seems to say otherwise.
I decided on The Heart's Invisible Furies because it is a buddy read for "made-me-cry" tag and it has been on the tbr for a while.
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill is a book club book for October.

I always know at least 3 of the books I will read each month because they are for book club, so I have 3 ready on deck when I finish the 2 mentioned above.
And I need to do my planning for my October challenge #31Spooky Stories this weekend :) (1 horror short story a day challenge)
I love having a reading plan.

I always decide books based on my book clubs, this year how to go far in Fly the Skies, and if possible I try to squeeze in a tag book.

I have a lot of books going right now, so here is just a sample:

The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse- Taking place in France, 1562. Minou Joubert, a Catholic, meets the Huguenot convert Piet Reydon. Any friendship between them will be dangerous. Historical fiction, with mystery and romance. I picked it up because I needed the word "burn" for a challenge. It was a bit slow to start with, but has picked up and I am intrigued.

Enemy at the Gates -#20 and the latest in the Mitch Rapp series. Espionage/Thrillers use to be my go to genre and I started reading Vince Flynn and fell hard for Mitch Rapp. I wait anxiously for the next installment.

No idea what books will replace these two. I let my current mood and life situation decide what book comes next. I always have 4-6 books going at once and I like to have a mix of genre's on the nightstand

Current reading list:

Just finished: Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

Reading in text
In my purse: Dancing in the Lowcountry by James Villas
Next to the bed: Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share

Listening to audio
IN THE CAR: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
ON MP3 player: What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg

Waiting on the nightstand (okay, on the floor in a pile next to the desk in the office) ...
AUDIO for the car: Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
AUDIO for MP3: Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
TEXT for my purse: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

Ever since the pandemic and last year's Poll Ballot Tally, I have been reading 17 books at once.

I pick books to satisfy various challenges and, of course, the monthly tag, from books I already own (or can easily get from the library). Each month, I participate in a group's "Pick It for Me" where we each put together a small list of books and ask another group member to pick a specified number of books from this list to read next.

Wow, Joy D, I thought Tessa was over the top reading 8 at once, but 17!

I generally only read 1 at a time. For a while I was reading 3, but found that, one would always push it's way forward and I would finish it, so I returned to the one at a time program.

I'm reading:

Ereader: They Both Die at the End. No one has died yet, but I think it has a good chance of making me cry still.

Audio: The Liar's Dictionary: Just started this one, while a word-nerd delight, I feel like it might be better suited to read in print. Lot's of words + definitions, that just doesn't flow super well with an audio. May ditch the audio and find a print version later.

On Deck: Library hold to finish A Promised Land just came in! I got about 70% through earlier in the year before my hold was returned. Hopefully will finish soon :)

I normally have 3 reads going- one audio, one ereader, and one print. Sometimes a 4th with a "gym book"- but since gyms are indoors, and requiring facemasks (a good thing!) I paused my membership, and thus paused my gym reading.

No idea what I'm reading next, but it will probably be something either Spooky/Fall-y or for the feminism tag. I've ditched all pre-planning of reading, and am now going all on mood.

I'm reading On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist by Clarissa Ward. It was on my TBR because I like memoirs by journalists and photographers who cover war zones. After seeing her reports on Afghanistan in August I wanted to read it. She has some really interesting stories and decided she wanted to be a journalist after 9/11.

I have Bewilderment next up to read. I preordered it as soon as a saw it was coming out because I loved The Overstory so much. It made the Booker longlist before it came out. It was released on 9/21, so I decided I would read it ASAP.

I'm really a one-book-at-time reader, with a few exceptions. Those exceptions are collections of essays and shortstories (by different authors) which I find work better if you read a couple every now and then. That said, while reading Proust in 2019/2020 I started having various books going at one time, because I just had to break up that intense reading. Poll Tally pushed it further. Long answer, I have several started right now with two starting to get priority. My 'Currently Reading' shelf on GR reflects both books I've started but not pursuing diligently yet, one's that are waiting for a weekend or different mind set, and ones I need to read soon for a challenge.

Serve 'N' Protect - just published in one of my favorite studly men and hunky dogs series - of course I put aside everything to read this! Features Secret Service Agent Marcus and his dog Ghost and it's a fast fun read which I will finish by tomorrow morning. Marcus is in hiding while recovering from a stabbing by someone unknown for reasons unknown (he was blindsided outside his house). Next door to where he is hiding out, accountant Cassidy has spent the last year recovering from a car accident that nearly cost her the ability to walk. She's still recovering physically while trying to salvage her career with a startup consulting accounting biz. Cassidy and Marcus meet when Ghost comes to get her to help the unconscious Marcus who fell of a step ladder while changing a light bulb. While leaving the hospital after getting Marcus help, someone takes pot shots at them. We are supposed to believe that whoever tried to kill Marcus has found him but me thinks Cassidy is going to turn out to be the real target. What's not to like? Sparks are flying between them I'm in love with Ghost (so is Cassidy), lots of action. Perfect reading after a tough work week. This is an ebook so I can read it in bed or other bad lighting (I do not have good reading light in bedroom).

- This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland - collection of essays covering one woman's fascination and time spent over many years in Greenland, including research results into historical exploration (centered on Rasmussan), the artic, culture, life in the artic and her own personal experiences. I originally picked this up to read for FtS but when I did not finish it for the leg I anticipated, it became just a great read to pick up when I need a palate cleanser or need something that doesn't require a lot of attention. Plus it gives me a cover I need for a challenge. This I am reading in Trade Paperback.

A Suitable Boy - I am reading this one for Popsugar Challenge -- longest book in length on my TBR. Also doing as a buddy read with my friend Ellen who had always wanted to read it and was intimidated by it; I thought my reading it at same time would get her over that hump (it did). Naturally she acutally read it in April or May while I only started it a short while ago and got sidetracked. It's a saga set in India, opening with Partition on the horizon. It centers on one family and its connections and actually covers various locations around India. I LOVED what I read of this so far and will be delving into it deeply very soon. I know once I get into it a bit more, I'll finish its 1500 pages in a week. Work permitting. I have both a trade paperback and an ebook copy (which was free on Kindle Unlimited and is full of errors). It's a fat somewhat heavy book and not easy to carry around so I also have the ebook to read when reading in transit and in bed. I only put it on my TBR a couple years ago after have travelled to India.

How Much of These Hills Is Gold - a buddy read started a while ago - I really just need to sit down and finish it, not just read a few pages here and there. I like it but am not entranced with it and had a lot of other books I needed to read by a deadline. I have this in hardcover. Set in the Gold Rush of the old west - California to be exact centers on 2 young chinese girls whose mother is dead, and father then dies leaving them orphans. They flee the danges of the mining town where they had lived, taking their father's body with them until a suitable burial place can be found and the proper rituals performed. The landscape is harsh, the lives of the girls impossible, downright grim. I have a bad feeling on how all this is going to pan out. Jury still out on what I think about it. I just need the right mood to finish this one off. The title and cover of this book appealed to me, plus the setting being the gold rush but a different perspective. After buying it, I started hearing mediocre reviews. At that point, I needead to let it marinate in my TBR for a while but Meli lured me into a buddy read -- which I failed. 😄

An Offer From a Gentleman - I got halfway through this third in the Bridgerton series early in the summer and just needed a break. It would have been tonight's reading and finish if my Studly Man and Hunky Dog book had not arrived. 😍. Own in ebook. This is basically a regency Cinderella story. Sophie isn't a young lady of the aristocracy though she's snuck into a masquerade ball during the Season. Benedict is the 3rd of the Bridgerton Siblings to be featured in the series and is determined to find the mysteriouis woman he danced with -- and fell instantly in love with -- at the masquerade ball. Fluffy entertainment is its attraction, along with more antics among the Bridgerton family and hopes of another match or two of cuthroat Pall Mall (croquet).

That's my in-progress. You will note that there is no book for my Feminerdy Book Club which I would normally be pushing all else aside to read. That's because the selection for October is a book I read in July - how perfect!

What will be read after these will be for the monthly challenges, including FtS and Pursue It on PBT, catching up on my Trim reads (I am behind having doubled up some months because I missed so many last year), and chipping away at my remaining 8 prompts for Popsugar. The books:

Normal People - fits dark academia for Popsugar and will be my FtS and Monthly Theme for PBT for October. Own in ebook and has been in my TBR for a while.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -British edition paperback and a re-read for Flurries October -- After recently watching the movie adaptation, I yearned to read the book again. This time opted for the British editions which I acquired for fun some years ago.
The Magic Circle - ancient paperback - Trim read and a chunkster. A thriller by an author I enjoy. Might buy the ebook because the paperback print is a tad small for me these days
Becoming George Sand - Trim read. On my TBR because I have a thing for George Sand (my senior college thesis was on her political involvement) and the author Rosalind Brackenbury wrote an historical fiction I adored - The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier. I thought I owned in paperback but might end up downloading ebook from library if available. Or buy in ebook.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - a re-read from my Trim challenge list - about the Italian village which hid its wine from the Nazis. I loved this when I read it in my 20s and just want to read it again. I'll be reading in ebook because even if I have the old second hand tattered paperback I first read somewhere in this apartment, the print will be too small and it will be falling apart.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway - hardcover. Love Ruth Ware's contemporary takes on classic mystery tropes. Trim challenge.
The Wedding Girl - hardcover contemporary romance by author I like (also writes as Sophie Kinsella) -- from Trim challenge
Startup - trade paperback if I can find it -- otherwise ebook from library or purchased if cheap enough. Also on my Trim list - contemporary fiction set in Manhattan set in world of tech start-ups. Supposed to be light and humorous. We'll see.

There will be a couple October Halloween cozy reads ... and some of this list will still be unread in November.

Note: I read about 3 books a week - even when really busy with work. I can actually get all these read in October if I set my mind to it.

Theresa wrote: "The Secret of Santa Vittoria - a re-read from my Trim challenge list - about the Italian village which hid its wine from the Nazis. I loved this when I read it in my 20s and just want to read it again. I'll be reading in ebook because even if I have the old second hand tattered paperback I first read somewhere in this apartment, the print will be too small and it will be falling apart. ..."

I also read The Secret of Santa Vittoria in my 20's. I loved it. I think I also saw the movie at a drive-in and quite enjoyed it., maybe before I read the book. I'll be interested to see if you like it as much. I don't often do re-reads.

Usually I read two at a time - one print or ebook and one audio.

Right now:
(audio) A Spark of Light /Jodi Picoult
(ebook): Fangirl / Rainbow Rowell

I have no recollection how either one came to be on my tbr. I usually go quite a long time between adding it and finally reading it!

What will I read next? Mammoth / John Varley

It's specifically for a challenge over at LT. I rarely choose something not on my tbr, but this was a very specific theme for this challenge, and I had nothing on the tbr that fit. I am hoping, even after finishing it, that I will have time for one additional book this month - I need to get to one of my Netgalley books.

What are you reading now?
-Sadie by Courtney Summers and far from the Tree by Robin Benway.
What is it about?
-Sadie is all about a missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial podcast following the clues she's left behind. And from the tree is a touching story about the strength and love of unconventional families and the unbreakable bond of siblings near and far.
How did you decided to read it?
-Because it was next to read on my TBR list.
Do you know what you will read next?
-Yes.
What?
-Sheets by Brenna Thummler and Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan.
How did you decide on that?
-Because I was excited to read it now and it was next to my NTR list(Next-to-read).😅😅😅
Anyway, I've loved these questions and enjoyed them so much! Thank you so much for this!

What are you reading now?

I have started reading The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People. It is a memoir written by Rick Bragg about a stray dog that he rescued and is now his companion. Bragg has a warm way of writing and already, he has me laughing out loud.

How did you decide to read it?

I read a good review of it here on GR. Since I had loved an earlier book I read by Rick Braggs and I love dogs, I wanted to read the story.

Do you know what you will read next?

I'm planning to read Circe, both for October's Feminist tag and because my friend IRL just finished it and recommended it to me.

Patricia wrote: "What are you reading now?
-Sadie by Courtney Summers and far from the Tree by Robin Benway.
What is it about?
-Sadie is all about a missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial podcast followi..."

Far from the Tree sounds wonderful!

I also just pulled several Jenny Colgan books from my TBR Towers to read over the next 3 months. At least one is set at Christmas for December Flurries challenge.

I wrote this whole giant thing and it disappeared when I was one word off from pressing send. My husband feels very bad for me. i am not doing that whole thing over. It will have to happen in pieces.

Theresa, you are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE the Magic Circle by our girl Katharine Neville!

Cindy, I thought Spark of Light was powerful, even though I prefer linear and hate this kind of situation that the plot centers on. But I was very moved by this one.

Far from the Tree - if its the same, I have been meaning to read it for years and the Nonfiction Chunkster sits in my work bookshelf downstairs. Someday our group will force me to do a non-fiction challenge and a long book challenge (I never vote for these), and a whole bunch of things will get knocked off then...

So it looks like here I go, although the last one was better written and I'm sort of frustrated.

I only ever read two books at a time. One print, one audio. Although right now I am starting two more non-fiction books each one to read with a patient. That we are reading together. And I am deeply excited about both and think they will help us both on the journey.

But right now i am reading:

Print: Shipped
Audio: The Paper Palace

Why? Well Shipped is an easy fun palate cleansing book right at the end of the month just after the challenges are complete. Its also like number 11 or 12 of the 14-15 books HayJay and I are reading together in 2021. She read it earlier this year, and is somewhere in What The Wind Knows. Next Up for us is The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba, if anyone wishes to join us for the last leg of the "Hey/Amy Tour!".

The Paper Palace is quickly becoming incredibly highly touted, and I was told more than once it was a great audio and I try to pick well. I like to get in early before these things skyrocket, so my expectations don't cause me disappointment. I have a few more on my list to get to quickly as they are quickly becoming runaway hits. The Lincoln Highway, and Morningside Heights to name a few.

Many of you know I have a secret phone TBR where I have actually priority lists of books to read, numbered and ordered. I have books waiting to get on the TBR (I cap it at exactly 400). When I say I am raising something on my priority list, I am literally doing that, and all the time. i am constantly reorganizing my list for challenges, what's due at the library, etc. What needs to be gotten to, etc. I spend a lot of time on this thread in my notes app, organizing, deleting books on this long list, based on your reviews. When I research mid month, it goes in there too. My suggestion for my book group. New 2021 priorities, etc. Its a whole thing. Its fun that it keeps changing around.

But the two books I am reading with patients are:

1) Amazon Wisdom Keeper. I bought us both copies 2-3 years ago. She is a PhD. psychology grad student, and this book appeals to us both because we are both spiritual and like the combination of spirituality and psychology is a very tight field. I think it will be helpful to us both.

2) The Upward Spiral. I was drawn to it ever since Nancy mentioned it. I wrote a paper on this topic just before quarantine and presented it in late 2019, and early 2020, and neuroscience is my Jam. But I am also reading this with another patient who I think we will find it helpful. So for next week, I have two chapter ones to prepare for, and two new book journeys for two work relationships. I love the whole concept of re-wiring, recoding, and have seen it work. And its really emergent these days, in and outside my practice.

Guys, I think I am about to press post. Wish me luck - here we go!

There are two books called Far From the Tree, Amy. I think you are referring to this nonfiction title, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. It is a chunkster, but can easily be read chapter by chapter as each chapter deals with a different population. It was an excellent book. It was helpful to me as a teacher and as a parent.

I used to read two books at a time, one print and one audio. Since I haven't been commuting for awhile I've only been reading print books.
I'm currently reading Murder on Astor Place. It's about a midwife and police officer in 1896 looking for the person who murdered a young woman.
I do several book challenges. For one of them I randomized my TBR list and the first 12 books that came up I put on a list to read this year. This book is on that list.

Next up is The River at Night, mainly because it's due back to the library soon.
I'm reading that book for a different challenge where a prompt is announced once a month and you pick a book off your TBR that fits the prompt. This prompt was to read the 5th book on your TBR list whose cover is mostly blue.

I'm sure both of these books made it onto my TBR list due to reviews from members of this group.

Rachel N. wrote: "I used to read two books at a time, one print and one audio. Since I haven't been commuting for awhile I've only been reading print books.
I'm currently reading Murder on Astor Place...."

I adore that Victoria Thompson series! I am way behind in it though.

I have Murder on Astor Place and keep meaning to get to it. I love historical mysteries. Other books mentioned above that I liked are Normal People and Tooth and Claw (both on audio which worked well for them. I felt meh about Circe and How Much of These Hills Is Gold.

I generally have one print book, one audiobook and one ongoing book. The ongoing books will be from my classics group, where we read about 50 pages per week. We just read The Black Arrow, which we decided clearly showed its intent as a young persons' book - kind of like a modern comic or movie. Their next read isNorthanger Abbey, which I have read several times so will skip. After that, it's The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, one of the humorous books that influenced Dickens.

We have a local group of retired university professors who started an educational initiative for "seniors". They have topics from politics to film to food, etc. I just started one in history led by a retired historian. We are reading The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, about 50 pages a week. The participants are all very educated and the conversation is great. I took a course with the same group in the spring on Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. So anyway that's another "ongoing" read.

The book I am reading now actively in print is 8 Faces at 3. I must have heard about this from Book Riot, Literary Hub, CrimeReads or one of the other book emails I get daily. Author Craig Rice was a woman who wrote a lot of mysteries in the 1930's to '40s. This one is a hoot. It seems like an imitation of a '30's screwball comedy until I remember it really is an original. At the beginning, everyone is stymied by a seemingly impossible murder and in walks a beautiful young woman dressed in blue silk lounging pajamas and a fur coat. She takes charge of everybody and everything, with a great talent for both deviousness and charm. She can outdrink anyone, drive fast and furiously enough to scare tough men, and organize a jailbreak. This book was recently reprinted but I don't know about others by this author.

Sometimes when I am reading a very serious or depressing book, I will start another, lighter one to read at night so that I don't have to read about heavy stuff before falling asleep. I often dream about the books I am reading, either watching the characters or actually being part of the story myself.

The audio I am listening to now is The Lathe of Heaven. Several of us recently agreed that we were underwhelmed by the classic The Left Hand of Darkness by the same author. This one has an exciting premise - a man's dreams alter the real world - but it has a very slow start with a lot of explanation. The characters are pretty flat. It does get into some more dramatic action toward the end, but overall I found this an easy book to fall asleep to!

My next reads on paper will be from 2 series - Smuggler's Moon from the historical mystery series about Sir John Fielding and his young assistant Jeremy. There is a lot of great historical detail and no obvious anachronisms, as you find in some books. The other is The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. Most mystery fans have already read her, I'm not sure why I'm so late to the series, especially since for 11 years I had a job where I talked daily to people in Quebec.

I forgot, I'm also in a local book group where our next book is Transcendent Kingdom. We are reading it as part of a citywide initiative. I think a lot of cities have that now, where lots of people are encouraged to read the book and then the author will come and speak (maybe remote this year).

I choose my books by what groups are reading, otherwise somewhat randomly. But the last 2 years I have been in a couple challenge groups on GR. I try to use them to read things from my existing stash and it's been working pretty well. If only I hadn't realized during shutdowns how easy it is to buy books online and how many specials they have! It's really easy for me to forget about my ebooks because I don't see them on a shelf. I enter them in GR and that helps, otherwise I would have bought some books twice!

I usually have two or three books going - print, e-reader, and sometimes audio although less now than when I was commuting every day. I want to train myself to listen while I do housework :)

Right now in print I am reading Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. It is a short book, less than 200 pages, but the writing is so rich, condensed, and complex that it is not a fast read. I am loving it though. I'm reading it as part of the Fly PBT Skies Challenge. When I'm finished, I'll have completed reading for all of the continents.


On my e-reader, I'm working through World Travel, the new Anthony Bourdain book out this year. It's bittersweet, sad because he was not able to finish it with his co-writer in the way that was planned, but wonderful because you get to visit the world from his perspective and read his direct quotes in it. I am reading this for my October book group discussion.


I am not sure what will be next, but I do have An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn (Sixth in the Veronica Speedwell series) on loan from the library, so I may try to sneak that one in before starting in on any others.


I am not sure how I missed the Focused on Reading threads weeks 1-7, but I find this thread delightful! It is so nice to see what everyone's reading and planning. Thanks for posting it, BnB!

I’m currently pushing to get through the National Book Award long list for translated lit. Seven down, three to go before the shortlist announcement, though it’s ok if I don’t finish.

Every month I try to knock ten books off the 1001 (actually over 1300) Books You Must Read Before You Die list. After working on it since 2007, I’m almost done- the ten a month goal was adopted a few years ago. I will say there are several DNFs, but it’s been a good experience.

Right now I’m listening to one installment a month of In Search of Lost Time. October will be my last, and I have to say I’ve loved it. If I had read it, I would probably have abandoned it long ago- stream of consciousness and I don’t get along.

Otherwise, I generally have two books going- an audio and one to read. They tend to fall to my whims- book award season is as structured as I get with reading plans.

What are you reading now? The Underground Girls of Kabul: in Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

What is it about? A Swedish (I think) journalist searches war-torn Afghanistan to see if she can find widespread evidence of Afghan families passing their daughters off as sons to get around gender discrimination. It's an interesting idea but so far I'm not convinced she's approaching it with the most practical or methodologically sound framework.

How did you decide to read it? It was on my trim list and it fits next month's tag, "feminist." It's nice to finally get to it even though I'm not entirely buying into the premise, as it's one of the oldest books on my TBR.

Do you know what you will read next? I have a few in mind and I'm hoping I can get to them next month or in November.

What? Most notably on my radar are The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Frankenstein in Baghdad, The Lost Village and Pym. I'm also hoping to start tackling Dune in November.

How did you decide on that? I love Halloween season and I wanted to try to fit in some spooky books for the month of October. Pym is for the Fly the Skies challenge so I can get to Antarctica and have traveled to all seven continents. Dune has been on my trim list all year and since the movie is coming out in October I want to make sure I read it soon, though I haven't yet decided whether I want to see the movie before or after.

What are you reading now?
I just started 2 books today, The Dark Forest and Beautiful World, Where Are You. I always have one audio and one print book in progress. The print is either e-reader or hardcover/paperback. Occasionally will do both along with the audio if I'm trying to go slow for a buddy read or the physical book is too big for reading before sleep,

What is it about?
Beautiful World, Where Are You is about 4 friends?/ 2 couples? making their way in life with messy relationships. I haven't gotten far yet. The Dark Forest is the second in a Chinese Sci-fi trilogy about aliens on their way to destroy mankind and take over the planet.

How did you decided to read it?
For another challenge, I needed to read a book set in China and considered this one. I read the first over the summer. Ultimately I went with another book for the challenge due to the timeline but decided to still read The Dark Forest as a good filler until October when I take up feminism books.

Beautiful World, Where Are You was just released and I was early in the library queue. I liked the author's previous book and wanted to check it out. It is also less than half the pages of my last book which seemed a good idea.

Do you know what you will read next?
I have an idea.

What?
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement on audio for feminism. My library just got it and I've already borrowed. For print, possibly The Wife, my SIL lent the trilogy to me years ago and I decided to make it my goal to read this year and return it at Christmas. I've only managed one part so far and need to get moving.

How did you decide on that?
Oops, I answered above.

I am currently reading:

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot -for the Cry tag. Bedtime reading.

The Secrets Between Us - for the cry tag. Daytime/alert reading only. This stalled when I got sick again.

Lady Clementine - for a local bookclub. I am hating this book, but I liked The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which we are also discussing tomorrow.

A History of Loneliness by John Boyne - Car. I haven't gotten far. I'm never in the car anymore.