-
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Natchez Burning by Greg Iles (received through the publisher)
- Like No Other by Una LaMarche (received through the publisher)
- The Three by Sarah Lotz (received through NetGalley)
On Deck:
-
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
- The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men by Colin Wilson (received through NetGalley)
- The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird (received through Goodreads)
Recent Reviews:
About
Face by Carol Howard
(received through NetGalley)
4 stars
Ruth is at a
crossroads in her career and her life.
Well into her fifties, she is a successful business woman and a former
Peace Corp volunteer and these two parts of herself start to come into conflict
as her husband tries to convince her to retire early and she begins to
reevaluate her life. What follows is a
meditation on what it means to age and how the direction our lives take may not
be what we imagined when younger. Even
though I am not yet to Ruth’s age, I definitely empathized with her
situation. I thought the sections of the
book that explore her Peace Corp time in Africa were interesting and I would
have like to see more of them. At times
this book slowed down and Ruth’s musings on her own life could be
monotonous. Overall though, I enjoyed
the honest and refreshing look at aging and thought that this was a book worth
reading for that alone. I received this
book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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