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Bottomland | 
so-soThis the All Iowa Reads for this year. Just discussed at book club tonight. The story of a German family living in rural Iowa post WWI. Two youngest daughters disappear. Story told from the perspectives of 5 family members. Excellent writing but just a heavy and fairly unhappy story.
so-soThis is a depressing story of family, loss, pain, and hardship told from 6 different POV. It's beautifully written but it begins super slow and stays slow but it gets stronger as the story goes on. The characters become more interesting, tragic, and engaging and I found myself caring about them and what happens more than in the beginning. It's a good book, not a must read or a read in one sitting book, but it didn't feel like a waste.
The bad news is I forgot the book I am reading at school/work today. The good news is that I started Bottomland and am loving it.
I'm back for #marchintoreading after spring break and here is my #setinthe1920s book at least as best as I can tell. A post WWI anti-German novel. I recall stories from that era that my Swiss ancestor suffered a good deal of racism in south Texas where he emigrated. Even though he was Swiss, he spoke the Swiss-German dialect and therefore assumed guilty of whatever American Germans were guilty of.
I finished this tonight. Thanks @Lindy for recommending it. I liked the audio version a lot until the second to last narrator who talked way too fast. If I slowed it down she had a terrible Texas drawl. Then I got lost in the switching timeframes and all the new characters with the last narrator. I think I would have liked the book better--it is a good story about a time period and subject we don't hear enough about, often lost in WWII stories.
Look at what I get to start tomorrow on audible for a long drive to meet with a client. 😊 It makes having clients all around south Texas quite enjoyable, and I have awesome clients too. 😁
pickTwo teenage sisters disappear from their farm one night after World War I. A somewhat melancholy family saga that spans nearly a century. German American immigrants. Same sex relationship. Four points of view, voiced by four different narrators in the audiobook. Rewarding.
Home. The idea alone is not solid enough to carry with us, yet without it, on what can we stand?
pickI pretty much love any book set in Iowa, but this one also made me think a lot about families who are trying to make a life in a new place while retaining their heritage.
pickSet shortly after World War I, two girls mysterious disappear from their family's farm in Iowa.
Told from a variety of perspectives, this is a vividly written suspense story about two girls, born of German immigrants, and the troubles they and their family encounter in the wake of the Great War.
