Started this on audio while I rip lobsters apart, I‘m making lobster cob salad for dinner tonight. I love GB but this is pretty heavy listening
pickA man kills his wife and two of his three children, shocking the small island community where he lives. Twenty years his surviving son returns to the island forcing everyone to face their complicated feelings about what happened and what it means. This was so good. The emotions in this book escalated as layers to the story were uncovered until I was turning pages with my heart firmly lodged in my throat.
#14book14weeks book 12
this is reading like a fictional #memoir but with the personal depth of someone‘s Tumblr page
a bit of #darkhumor & existential dread 🙃
#magicrealism #literaryfiction
#grief #reflective #contemporary
pickUpon reflection, I‘m surprised to realize that I‘ve read quite a few grief memoirs. It feels odd to say, but this one is my favorite. Geraldine Brooks is such a talented writer.
“There was loads of food set up on a large #picnic table just outside the kitchen door. Potato salad with green beans. Sautéed squash with onions and garlic. Tomatoes on their own, or stuffed with cream cheese, or with rice and peppers. Bowls of salad, dressed and undressed. Fresh bread. Berry pie, berry cobbler, berries and cream. Pretty much everything had been grown by the class, and it was enormously satisfying to eat it all.”
#JulyJazz
I think this will be a much better choice than my previous book. Here's hoping, anyway
pickA sweet and easy to read romance between a ballet dancer and a hockey player! I loved the characters in this book and the fact that it was set in Minnesota was also fun! Highly recommend this one!
