I have that tomorrow tomorrow book but haven't started it. But I AM going away for a long weekend soon so I will take your recommendation and read it! I just finished The Paris Apartment and LOVED it! And I love that your daughter wanted to book club with you! How fun!
Parenting pro tip is right on. I’ve read the Colleen Hoover one. Not yet the Zevin one though I can’t tell you why. Everytime I start it I get derailed. Huzzah to Alise’a book. So exciting!
My reading has been atrocious this year, so I'm doing some lighter reading this summer and catching up on some John Scalzi novels I've missed. He's a fun author and I love his vibe. Currently in Starter Villain, then over to Kaiju Preservation Society.
I just finished Sarah Bessey’s A Field Guide for the Wilderness which was so so beautiful and wise. I’m currently reading Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange and also now apparently Moby Dick as my husband invited me to do a book club just the two of us when I told him I hadn’t read it. It is so long and I honestly worried that I’d hate it but so far so good, and I felt similarly about the invite to do a book club together. I try to say yes when I can to my peeps. I would definitely read any book my kid asked.
The best book I read in a long time was Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. That was super fun to read.
I read It Ends With Us a couple of years ago and my SIL and I plan to see the movie on August 9th when it's released. I've been reading a book a day lately so far this summer so it's not so much what am I reading as what am I not reading? Lol. Mostly thrillers but a little romance chucked in here in there as to not get too too dark. 📚
Cloud Cuckoo Land—Anthony Doerr. I almost need a whiteboard to keep track of who is who and when is when, but it is a beautifully written complex story of hope and resilience.
The “not as much fun” reads:
The Kingdom, the Power and The Glory—Tim Alberta. How the far-right “Evangelicals” got where they are.
The False White Gospel—Jim Wallis. Similar, but with lots of hopeful stories for the remnant church.
Life After Doom—Brian McLaren. Climate change. What we’ve done to the Earth. We’re f’d.
Emergent Strategy—Adrienne Marie Brown. Incredible book on leadership that is written in prose worthy of a Pulitzer novel. (Note for Jen: This will tell you more about Quest than you ever imagined.)
Thank you so much for such detailed book recommendations - I'm going to take a closer look at a couple of them. I'm bogged down in 'Persuasion' by Jane Austen at the moment - put it this way, I'm not going to need much *persuasion* to put it down! I need something a little lighter for summer, methinks. 😁
Oh, the other book on my bedside table (I think you'd call that a nightstand) is 'Writing from the Senses' by Laura Deutsch, which I picked up at a charity book sale - it's fabulous to dip in and out of. I love to read *about* writing, and I'm learning so much from this book!
Thanks for these great recs! I could not get into Colleen Hoover, but I agree, you've got to read with your kid when they ask. Mine are in the middle of the Hunger Games. I'm mostly reading romcoms and parenting books right now
I have that tomorrow tomorrow book but haven't started it. But I AM going away for a long weekend soon so I will take your recommendation and read it! I just finished The Paris Apartment and LOVED it! And I love that your daughter wanted to book club with you! How fun!
I just finished 'The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet' by Nell McShane Wulfhart.
Before that, it was 'Mythbusting Hemmingway' by Thomas Bevilacqua and Robert Elder.
Both were fantastic reads.
Bevilacqua also has a Substack that's criminally infrequent.
https://thomasbevilacqua.substack.com/
Parenting pro tip is right on. I’ve read the Colleen Hoover one. Not yet the Zevin one though I can’t tell you why. Everytime I start it I get derailed. Huzzah to Alise’a book. So exciting!
Thank you for the kind shout out! 🥰
My reading has been atrocious this year, so I'm doing some lighter reading this summer and catching up on some John Scalzi novels I've missed. He's a fun author and I love his vibe. Currently in Starter Villain, then over to Kaiju Preservation Society.
I just finished Sarah Bessey’s A Field Guide for the Wilderness which was so so beautiful and wise. I’m currently reading Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange and also now apparently Moby Dick as my husband invited me to do a book club just the two of us when I told him I hadn’t read it. It is so long and I honestly worried that I’d hate it but so far so good, and I felt similarly about the invite to do a book club together. I try to say yes when I can to my peeps. I would definitely read any book my kid asked.
The best book I read in a long time was Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. That was super fun to read.
I read It Ends With Us a couple of years ago and my SIL and I plan to see the movie on August 9th when it's released. I've been reading a book a day lately so far this summer so it's not so much what am I reading as what am I not reading? Lol. Mostly thrillers but a little romance chucked in here in there as to not get too too dark. 📚
Thursday Murder Club series cuz when my brain and emotions are on overload I read and watch murder mysteries and crime drama...
Finished Horse by Geraldine Brooks and loved it. I also loved People of the Book and need to get another of her books on my list.
Just got Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield to balance out the comfort food.
I've been wanting to read Devolution so I'll have to add that to the list!
Cloud Cuckoo Land—Anthony Doerr. I almost need a whiteboard to keep track of who is who and when is when, but it is a beautifully written complex story of hope and resilience.
The “not as much fun” reads:
The Kingdom, the Power and The Glory—Tim Alberta. How the far-right “Evangelicals” got where they are.
The False White Gospel—Jim Wallis. Similar, but with lots of hopeful stories for the remnant church.
Life After Doom—Brian McLaren. Climate change. What we’ve done to the Earth. We’re f’d.
Emergent Strategy—Adrienne Marie Brown. Incredible book on leadership that is written in prose worthy of a Pulitzer novel. (Note for Jen: This will tell you more about Quest than you ever imagined.)
I loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, too!!! I need to FINALLY check out Steven Rowley. Thanks for the recs, Jen!
Raspberries on toast?! 😍
Thank you so much for such detailed book recommendations - I'm going to take a closer look at a couple of them. I'm bogged down in 'Persuasion' by Jane Austen at the moment - put it this way, I'm not going to need much *persuasion* to put it down! I need something a little lighter for summer, methinks. 😁
Oh, the other book on my bedside table (I think you'd call that a nightstand) is 'Writing from the Senses' by Laura Deutsch, which I picked up at a charity book sale - it's fabulous to dip in and out of. I love to read *about* writing, and I'm learning so much from this book!
Thanks for these great recs! I could not get into Colleen Hoover, but I agree, you've got to read with your kid when they ask. Mine are in the middle of the Hunger Games. I'm mostly reading romcoms and parenting books right now