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Vacation!

Travel time means book time. Here’s what’s going in my travel bag:

 

What I Read: May 2019

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Here’s what I read last month:

Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Messed-up parents mess up their adult child who then messes up other people. Good mystery with some interesting characters and plot turns. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Sleeping for a year won’t fix your life, but if you are rich and beautiful, you can give it a try. Thoughtful meditation on depression and trauma with one of the most truly unlikable narrators I’ve encountered in a long time. The Mother-in-Law by...

Short Story

Check out my latest short story, “The Last Rhubarb,” at The Account Magazine, where you’ll find a fabulous group of editors and writers.

I promise my story isn’t about roots.

Book-of-the-Month Club

My personal book-of-the-month club sent a good twisty Australian thriller for May. I can’t wait to dig into it.

Reading Next

This one has come highly recommended by one of my trustworthy reader friends. It’s a novel, but I am hoping it is also a how-to guide.

Currently Reading

This is a wonderfully creepy thriller about a family in Dublin with a really big secret–so big it’s buried in the back garden. 

What I Read: April 2019

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Another semester is done and in the books! It’s a good thing because it really cut into my reading time.

Here’s what I read in April:

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
A surprisingly calming and meditative book about how messy the world is. No surprise that we feel anxious all the time, given that we live in a garbage fire. Matt Haig presents essays on anxiety (and related topics) along with lists and observations that are poignant and often funny. This is definitely not self-help (tha...

What I Read: March 2019

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I can’t believe another reading month is behind us. Here are the seven books I read in March 2019:

Family Trust by Kathy Wang–Stanley Huang is dying. The question now is who is going to inherit his fortune? His second wife or his children from his first marriage? Complications ensue when Stanley’s family begins to suspect he doesn’t have any money at all. Good family saga, set in Silicon Valley, about a Chinese-American family coming to terms with their own mortality.

My Pitch: If your rich...

Currently Reading

Open Your Eyes by Paula Daly

Amazon says: “A surprising and gripping thriller of pride, ambition, and envy, Open Your Eyes is an unsettling whodunit about the illusions of a perfect marriage that confirms Paula Daly as a writer at the forefront of domestic suspense.”

Spring Break!

Let Spring Break begin! I’m ready to start reading. Here’s what just came in from the library:

David Grann blurbed it. That’s all I need to know to put it in my TBR pile.