DMPL Book Chat discussion

See which books staff read for this challenge below. If you've completed this challenge, let us know which book you read and what you thought about it! Also, don't forget to register for the 2023 Reading Challenge at dmpl.org/readingchallenge.

I read the book Orbiting Jupiter and it was an amazing book! A definitely 5 star book!! I read it in several hits since it has less than 200 pages.

I read Passing by Nella Larsen, this book was published almost 100 years ago but still holds themes that you can resonate with today.

I read Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf

I just got The Swimmers and am looking forward to it!

I read "Even Though I Knew the End" by C.L. Polk. This would also qualify in the transgender/non-binary author category too.

I read Yoke by Jessamyn Stanley. I follow her on social media and it was fun to read her writing than watch her reels and stories. It’s about her journey to acceptance in her yoga practice and body positivity.

I read "The Hero of This Book" by Elizabeth McCracken. Whether you read this as the genre in which it's promoted (fiction) or the one it so closely feels like (memoir), you're sure to find yourself, as I did, reminiscing about the first days and months after one or both parents have died: time spent cleaning out the childhood home, replaying the last conversations held in person and on the phone, and traveling to one of the last places you visited together. And then realizing--as the narrator does--that while you may think you everything about your mother, you only know "the stories she liked to tell, not the ones she’d prefer to forget."

I read Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It was just... fine.