Books Are My People Weekly Newsletter
out today, paperback releases and more!
Dear Reader,
Less than a week until I send my child off to hockey training camp and his freshmen year of college! This is totally bananas! It’s been a very busy week over here and I am extra tired. But long dog walks make for great audiobook listening.
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Out Today (I’ve starred the ones I’ve read) No paperback releases today because I have too many new releases to share!
*THE AXEMAN’S CARNIVAL by Catherine Chidgey
Wholly original, and told from the bird’s point of view, a woman adopts a baby magpie who disrupts her already tenuous marriage.
*I NEED YOU TO READ THIS by Jessa Maxwell
A sly and addictive new mystery about an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor's murder.
PEGGY by Rebecca Godfrey and Leslie Jamison
As an art lover, I’m so excited to read this book about art collector and socialite, Peggy Guggenheim. A story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself.
SOCIETY OF LIES by Lauren Ling Brown
What should have been a dream weekend at her Princeton college reunion becomes Maya's worst nightmare when she receives the news that her little sister, Naomi is dead. As Maya pieces together what happened in the months leading up to her sister's death, she begins to realize how much Naomi hid from her.
OUR NARROW HIDING PLACES by Kristopher Jansma
An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.
MEN HAVE CALLED HER CRAZY: A Memoir by Anna Maria Tendler
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
HIGHWAY THIRTEEN by Fiona McFarlane
A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in Australia affecting the lives of everyday people.
A novel about two men--friends since boyhood--who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence.
From the author of *THE MEMORY POLICE, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
Set between the London stage and Sicily, this book is about a daughter who turns her novelist father's fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter's voice.
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August: Independent reading month. We’ll gather at the end of August to share what we’re reading and loving!
Read With Me Series: We will be reading Caoilinn Hughes’s The Alternatives in September / October. I can’t wait to read this smart, witty, romp about four Irish sisters.
November: Book to Film Series: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray. Read the book, watch the movie, or both!
December: Independent reading month. We’ll meet up at the start of the new year when the craziness of December is over.
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