The book, which will be available at the library after December 15, is For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women, by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Books
Try a new author
If you try reading a new (to you) author, you may be pleasantly surprised, or you may be disappointed, but it’s certainly something you should do to get out of your reading rut. I have recently read two books by new authors, Jane Haddam and Linwood Barclay. Haddam’s Cheating at Solitaire was a disappointment to me. Liking the game solitaire, I was looking forward to a good book. However, after getting more than half-way through it, I found little reason to continue. Barclay’s No Time for Goodbye, on the other hand, kept my attention from the very first page and kept me guessing as to what happened, until the answer was finally revealed.
Feel free to share your experiences with any new authors you have read.
Book Club
The library book club will be reading The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman. Their next meeting will be November 20 at 1PM.
What are you reading?
I’m currently reading a couple of books. How to knit a wild bikini by Christie Ridgeway, an escapist romance that I am only a couple of chapters into. From previews I read about it, it looks like it may get a little steamy…
Also by my bedside is A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America–One State Quarter at a Time by Jim Noles. It is a fascinating book of readable nonfiction about the history behind each state quarter. Over about ten years, the US Mint has issued a quarter commemorating each state with a different design. I discovered this book through my daily email from DearReader.com. It’s an online book club and every weekday I get a small portion of a book in my email. There’s a different book each week and I get to read the first two to three chapters. That’s usually enough to tell me whether or not I want to read it.
Your turn: tell me what you’re reading or just finished and what you think of it. ; )