I’m starting The Postcard by Anne Barest. Hope it’s good! I was kinda mixed on Milk and Honey.
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I’m about 25% through. The Postcard is my book club’s May selection. Interesting story so far.
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This is a “fun” read! 
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Reading Ruth Reichl’s new book-The Paris Novel. It’s a light read but I needed that. I lover her memoirs-Tender on the Bone and Save Me the Plums. Lots of food content.
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I doubt that any of those books were written with malicious or creepy intent. Some people will try to find ugliness in the nicest of places.
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We read “Rainbow Fish” to our spawns a lot, but I never liked the underlying theme that if your peers don’t like you, you could use your resources to buy their friendship. I get that it’s about sharing, but the Rainbow Fish had to give it all away. I much preferred “Little Beaver and the Echo”.
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27% here and giving up. I didn’t realize quite what I was getting into. I read a lot of Holocaust and postwar literature in college and have had my fill.
Are you enjoying it?
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I’m stuck too at about 35%. When I can get into the flow the reading goes quickly but I just don’t reach for it. My book club meets Thursday so I might try to power thru. I do not find the “mystery “ of who sent the postcard a very compelling reason to continue.
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I just googled for spoilers.
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Part 2, modern times, is much more interesting. I’m on a roll now
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It’s not even so much that I found it boring, but that I have a hard time reading these tragic stories and getting invested in the characters and knowing how they came to destruction. I’m glad the rest of the book is good!
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I’m still on this same trilogy by Islington. It’s been hard to source at the library because they only have one of each book in the trilogy, and interest has definitely picked up because of the NYT listing of his newer series starting with “The Will Of The Many”.
These books are 700 pages each and as soon as I get one of them, someone puts a hold on it and I cannot then renew (which is fair, but a PITA).
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An Invitation to Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
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Had lots of car time to finish a couple of audio books - including Raising Lazarus (non-fiction version of Demon Copperhead in a way) and Bellies (trans story for my book club). First was very interesting, second one was waaaaaay too long. I kept wondering what the hell happened to the editor.
Next up: The Displacements (catastrophe fiction) and Immortal Longing (fantasy). I fear Longing won’t be long for my bedside table - I’m just not into it so far.
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I reserved Heaven and Earth Grocery Store when people were discussing it a few months ago in this topic, and it didn’t arrive until last week. It was a great read. I couldn’t figure out how an Irish guy named McBride could know so much about Black and Jewish culture, and Yiddish. It turns out he had a Black father and a Jewish mother, and grew up in the projects in Brooklyn.
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So glad you enjoyed it. I thought it was great!
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Great book; I really enjoyed it. This past weekend I was passing through WV and stopped to tour the Trans Allegany Lunatic Asylum in Weston. Boy, I was really channeling that “school” where Dodo was sent.
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I’ll save everybody some time and trouble. I gave up reading “Eat Everything Before You Die”. Mechanically, Jeffery Paul Chan is a solid writer. Good grammar and proper sentence structure you could probably diagram in your sleep. Unfortunately, that also describes his writing perfectly: Mechanical.
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I just finished an ebook loan of Whoopi Goldberg’s latest: Bits and Pieces. What a remarkable life, remarkable mother and brother. She doesn’t mention anything of her 3 marriages/3 divorces. Her father was pretty absent, not contributing child support. Raised in projects of NYC.
Her mother worked hard as a practical nurse, somehow took the 2 kids to museums, Rockettes, Ice Capades, Coney Island. Whoopi dropped out of school in 10 grade, knew she wanted to act.
At one point her mother had a nervous breakdown, was hospitalized for 2 years. Later, when city was going to remove a playground to build a nursery school, she protested. Then she became an assistant teacher at that same Head Start program and they helped her get a BA then MA! Incredible.
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