I’d rather not have food poisoning, but as long as I have it, it’s a good time to catch up on my reading. I have four books stacked up on my table right now, and this weekend, we are giving away scores of books by setting them outside Saturday next to our Little Free Library.
We have books stacked all over the place in the house, and it feels good to give them to people for free. We are on a no-clutter campaign. The give-a-way will be Saturday from 10 a.m.
The books are in great shape, with many contemporary best sellers and a wide range of novels and non-fiction books.
As always, I like to share what I’m reading on the blog.
To 3 p.m. Our Little Free Library has been much more popular than we imagined. so this should be fun.
At the moment, I’m reading The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton, a fantastic book about climate change set in Florida sometime in the future.
It is dazzling, creative, powerful, and a bit mystical.
As a devastating hurricane approaches, a pregnant and frightened Frida Lowe is h horrified to learn that her husband and two stepsons have disappeared just as the ferocious storm approaches.
During the raging storm, Frida gives birth to Wanda, a daughter with unusual gifts. Wanda is named after the storm, which drives her and Frida’s world closer to collapse than ever before.
This book is wonderfully written and plotted and approaches climate change and Mother Nature in a personal and touching but powerful way I’ve never seen before. They must re-imagine their lives.
Wanda’s world has been abandoned by society and remade by nature. I am having a lot of trouble putting this one down.
I’m excited; I feel like I’m reading an amazing, wonderfully imaginative book.
Also on my table is All The Broken Places by John Boyne, a novel about a woman who escaped the Nazis when she was young and lives in London, now much older.
According to the reviews, this is a compelling story about a woman who needs to find a way to be brave again. I’ve only read a few pages of this book; it feels pretty great.
Mick Heron is a British spy novelist increasingly compared to John LeCarre. The comparison was enough to get me interested. Heron’s first novel, The Slow Horses, about a gang of washed-up MI5 spies, was wonderful; it’s now an Apple TV series.
This series is about trust, betrayal, and redemption, like all the good spy novels. The new book is called Dead Lions; I’m not sure how long I can wait to read it. I’m addicted to spy novels.
(Above, the books we are giving away Saturday)
My fourth book on the table is Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Richard Rodgers, as in Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Her book is being praised as the greatest book about Broadway and the musical world of the theater ever written.
It’s a bit out of my wheelhouse, which is a good reason to read it. The book is almost 500 pages, which is a turn-off for me, but the reviews drew me in, and I imagine Maria will also love to read this book.
Mary Rodgers died in 2014; she was an accomplished author and screenwriter.