What book are you reading?

[Henga]

I've finished The Great Alone book and I love this one. This book contains the story of a man named Ernt. He wants to live a happy and peaceful life with his family. For this, he moves his family to the wilds of Alaska to start their lives anew. While many of her books are bittersweet and run the gamut of life’s emotions, this one is the pretty bleak cover to cover. If all is stable and calm in your world and you read it from a place of peace. It provides the perfect backdrop for an equally dramatic tale, one that feels remarkably current for the 1970s setting.

[oeccscclhjhn]

Past Tense (Jack Reacher #23), Lee Child (2018)

[oeccscclhjhn]

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One, Joe Dispenza (2012)

[pinetreelover]

I am reading Inheritance by Dani Shapiro. Shapiro, a successful author and memoirist, sends her DNA to Ancesty on a lark and discovers that her father was not her biological father. The book is written in what feels like real-time as Shapiro peals back the layers of family secrets.

[greatblueheron]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
by Mark Haddon

[AZgarden]

Ruin Falls by the same author as Cover of Snow (I forgot her name).
It's truly unbelievable i.e, there is no part of it that is believable.

[chicagoliz]

A few years back I started a book called The Family, which is about the secret religious group that has a shockingly high degree of control over Washington. It was a little slow going for me at the beginning, and then I had some other books I had to read for various reasons (like book clubs) and then it was lost for a while in a major move, so it was sitting on my goodreads shelf as "currently reading" for a few years. So, I was determined to knock that one out in 2019 and wanted to do it NOW. So, I did, and it was a very good and worthwhile read.

In the meantime, I bought a book called Amity and Prosperity (on ylisa's recommendation) and I was browsing through it one evening and read 50 pages. But I wanted to finish The Family, so I forced myself to finish that and then I was going to continue with Amity, which at least so far is fantastic. But then a book I requested at the library came through, and I wanted to renew it but am not allowed to, as someone else has requested it. So, again, Amity is on temporary hold while I try to rush through The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. That book is excellent, but it is definitely heavy reading and not the sort of book you can skim at all. I'm hoping to devote significant chunks of tonight and tomorrow to it so I can hopefully finish it up. It was due at the library yesterday!

[jbgusa]

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. I put down First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World by Francis J. Bremer when I had a chance to borrow Hamilton from a colleague.

[dohmixer]

I'm back on kindle unlimited got it for $.99 for 3 months and currently reading The Twelve Apostles by William Coughlin.

When one of the twelve leading lawyers died, the vacant chair in the famous law firm Nelson & Clark was the most sought after in the industry. So terrifying is the power and influence of this law firm that its senior partners are known as "the Twelve Apostles".

I like this author and this book is definitely holding my interest.

[Mikala43]

Library books always become available at the worst possible moment. I just got Secret Life of Bees, so yeah, I had to put aside some books that I was in the middle of.