February Reads

[rapa]

"Hello February!" Are you ready for Punxsutawney Phil, Cupid, Year of the Monkey, Abe and George's birthday and a Leap Year jump into March?
Hope you treat yourselves to some good reading as winter continues.

I just started CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER by Tom Franklin. This is a compelling, literary crime novel set in rural Mississippi. It begins in the late 1970's with a secret friendship between a young white boy and black boy which was broken via the white boy's father. Twenty years later the black boy returns to the town as a constable and must confront the past that they had buried to deal with a suspected crime. Good read! Whipped through 100 pages last night.

What are you reading?

[Carolyn Tewell]

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter....listening to it on Audiobook...the reader is deep voiced and excellent!!!

[rapa]

Last night finished Mary Chamberlain's THE DRESSMAKER'S WAR. This is a powerful historical fiction story of a brilliant English seamstress taken prisoner in Germany during WWII, her often flawed choices to stay alive, and the haunting aftermath of the war. I almost put the book down but so glad I didn't.

Also reading and thoughly enjoying Colum McCann's THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING. This is a collection of short fiction; one novella and three short stories in which "McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments."

Slopok, glad you liked CROOKED LETTER CROOKED LETTER. I so wish that Larry Ott had had a Zook!

Carolyn, super that you have a deep voiced reader for this story. It's a deep, dark story!

[Slopok]

You are right Rapa, "the Zook" was a true friend.

[Ioruach]

Happy Leap Day to all Bookoholics members. But I tend to agree with a writer who wrote an item for our local newspaper today, urging that the extra day be moved to June. Who needs one more day in February?

I am in the middle of the recent David Baldacci book, The Guilty, which is in his Will Robie series. Baldacci is one of my favorites and this effort does nothing to change that opinion. I am also reading a nonfiction work, Time Reborn by Lee Smolin, who explores the question of what is Time. I haven’t learned the answer yet but hope to before I reach the last page.