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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

None of Your Business

None of Your Business wins my award for Most Irrelevant Book Cover Ever. I felt badly for the author. This cover has literally ZERO to do with the book, a very strange novel about a repressed, angry accountant who embezzles on behalf of her idiot boss. I think I kept reading because the characters were […]

Evans Above

Evans Above — the sort of book one reads on a long train or plane ride. Evan Evans is a Welsh policeman posted in a small town of crazy characters. I like Rhys Bowen, I do.

The Flight of Gemma Hardy

Apparently an adaptation of Jane Eyre. Guess I should read that, huh? I tore through this book. I felt like I did as a girl, reading The Little Princess or Little Women. The story just flew and I felt connected to the protagonist and wanted the best for her. Gemma is a Scottish girl who […]

Ruby’s Diary

Ruby’s Diary: Reflections on All I’ve Lost and Gained

fathermothergod

Lucia Greenhouse’s memoir of her Christian Science parents and the devastating results of their adherence to their faith, suffers by comparison to the last memoir of loss I read (see below). The book is titled fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science, the “fathermothergod” part being the beginning of a Christian Science prayer. I felt […]

The Rules of Inheritance

The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith is a beautiful study of grief. Smith lost both her parents, one while she was a teenager and one in her twenties. She offers searing detailed memories and emotions that are leavened with a real depth of thought and wisdom. I felt honored to read her story.