I’m a big Georgia O’Keeffe fan, both the person and the artist, and I recently discovered a mystery series with her as the main character. I’m almost done with the first one: Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky, and I’ve really enjoyed it. A few too many rattlesnakes (it takes place in New Mexico) for my taste, but you can’t have everything. I also just requested the second one from the library.
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That’s really become a trend-dropping famous people in mysteries. There’s a series that has Agatha Christie in it plus one with the Mitford Sisters and my favorite that has Julia Child helping solve murders in post WW2 Paris.
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I briefly heard something about that. Wasn’t it banned? It sounds like a good read.
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Love memoirs.
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Educated by Tara Westover
The Library Book by Susan Orleans (more just a great non fiction book)
Chasing History by Carl Bernstein
Personal History by Katherine Graham
Becoming by Michelle Obama
And some popular cultures ones I’ve enjoyed are
Me by Elton John
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Life by Keith Richards
Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt
Rock Me On the Water by Ron Brownstein
Coming to My Senses by Alice Waters
Streisand (which needed a editor and still haven’t finished).
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I thought the last one was way too long, needed better editing.
A very interesting read was This is not a Pity Memoir, Abi Morgan
There’s a fun five book (so far) series by SJ Bennett starring Queen Elizabeth II. The first one is called The Windsor Knot.
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What bothered you? I think I liked it … it’s been a while.
Yes! I knew I left something out. Love those.
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The Dictionary People / Sarah Ogilvie is an interesting and quirky read so far.
Judgment at Tokyo / Gary J. Bass is heavy. (I saw the TV show about the Tokyo Trial a while back because my friend’s great uncle was one of the judges and we had been talking about it.)
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New Yorker, July 22, 2024. Fabulous piece on pirates, page 12. Next article… on a review of ‘The Bluestockings’.
Scary cover.
I download the mag from my library.
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Still “working” on the May issues 
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It has been a while for me too. IIRC, none of us knew enough about the North Korean experience to dispute the author’s narrative but it turns out her credibility has been questioned from many quarters. Especially because of the South Korean reality show she was in where statements she and her mother made directly contradicted what she said in her book.
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I recently finished a mystery book that I really enjoyed: The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace. With a neurodivergent author and main character, it has a refreshingly different vibe than many mysteries. I wrote to the author to tell her how much I liked it, and she said that there will be a sequel which I was happy to hear.
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The man who wrote Escape From Camp 14 was ashamed and left out some details and later on admitted such.
Very understandable.
If I were teaching HS English, I’d encourage my students to read this … I appreciate basic things more now.
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I’m most of the way through a surprising book, “America Day by Day” by Simone de Beauvoir. She tours the US in 1947, travelling from NY to California by train and bus. What was surprising is that she likes it here. I was expecting moody existentialist despair and French disdain of our culture, but aside from her discussions of the tragic state of racial relations (years before the civil rights movement) and finally, towards the end, a few pages of existentialist analysis of fundamental inauthenticity among the people here, it’s mostly positive, almost glowing. She doesn’t even complain about American food!
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That book sounds worth a look. There was a lot of love for America in 1947 France.
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I just downloaded ebook loan of Breaking Night.
On hold for The Glass Castle.
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I just downloaded those 2 … ebook loans.
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I wish I’d tried to buy used books sooner. I’d read The Seventh Daughter as a loan from my library. Since it’s out of print I bought “Very Good” used copy and it turned out to be a signed copy, very new condition! I just bought another used one to give to my Chinese-American doctor.
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