It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

Last week I finished a lot of books because I was on spring break from my college teaching job. I finished The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins; The Storied Life of A.J. Firky, by Gabrielle Zevin; The Blue Zones Solution, by Dan Buettner; Paper Dreams, edited by Travis Kurowski; and Metallica, by David Masciotra. My favorite of this bunch was The Storied Life of A.J. Firky. It's another book in one of my new favorite genres: novels about books. A.J. Firky owns a bookstore in a small town. His depression lifts after the death of his wife after an orphan girl is left at his bookstore and he decides to raise her. The book is a quick read, and something of a feel-good book, but also well written with engaging characters.

This week I'm in the middle of four books that I started during my break: Piano in the Vineyard, poems by Jean Janzen; Good on Paper, by Rachel Cantor; Early One Morning, by Virginia Baily, and Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, by Nina Sankovitch.

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