EPBOT Readers discussion

Hello Everyone,
I am finally home, hopefully for a while. My mom is in rehab and stable. She had her 96th birthday this week. Fall is definitely in the air this week. Locally school starts here in a few days.

I finished The Women of Arlington Hall. It was pretty enjoyable and lightweight. My mom was a G-girl in the late 1940s so I bought her a copy. It is on her table at the rehab. Hopefully she'll read it in the coming weeks.

I am listening to The Secret Life of Bees for neighborhood book club. I read it long ago and it is only very vaguely familiar. I don't tend to retain too many details of fiction from long ago so it is almost like new to me.

I am reading Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations. It is a bunch of essays. I'd call Alton Brown one of my celebrity crushes and when reading the essays I can hear his voice. But essays are great because they are short and it is easy to stop whenever.

QOTW:
What are some of your favorite tropes or tropes you'd like to see more of in the books you read? Here's a helpful link describing various tropes.
https://kindlepreneur.com/book-tropes/

In adventure books I like the puzzle solving. That trope is what made me really enjoy both The Martian and Project Hail Mary.

In some of the historical fiction I've read (for book club, as it's not my favorite genre generally) I like the combining of real and fictional events and characters. This was very well done in The Frozen River.

I'm glad your mom is doing well! I can't say it feels much like fall here, but at least we're only in the 80s this week.

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive - This is written by a journalist who visited people in various countries performing occupations at risk of disappearance. It was generally interesting but not exceptional.

QOTW: Wow that website takes a broad view of "trope". "Set in the Modern Day"? "War"? I dunno, I feel like tropes are things that happen in books more often than in real life (I'm sure someone has experienced Only One Bed, for example, but it hasn't come up for me). I'm trying to think of mystery ones, since I read a lot of those, but I'm just coming up with tropes that are annoying. I guess I do like Assembling the Suspects, which doesn't make any sense to do in a real investigation but makes for a fun scene.