What I'm Reading-Fall

Ok-it’s been several months since a book update. The Last Tuesday Book Club has read The Devil Wears Prada, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,and Memoirs of a Geisha, all great books, each in its own way. It helped that the movies have come out and we could also discuss similarities and differences.
We also read Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a lyrical memoir by John Philip Santos. This book was chosen by our city to read collectively over the summer and I really enjoyed it.

Upcoming for the LTBC is The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (murder mystery), and The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. Our group is certainly eclectic!

In addition, I just finished The Other Rebecca by Maureen Freely, an updated retelling of Rebecca, with a few extra twists. A couple of plane trips were eased by reading March by Gwendolyn Brooks, an imagination of what Mr. March was doing during the Civil War while his family had their story told in Little Women. I raced through The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan-a young adult book that has Greek gods and goddesses hovering over America and causing trouble. I’d read the sequel: it has a well-drawn modern protagonist with plenty of problems.

I enjoyed Blood From a Stone by Donna Leon. I’ve really enjoyed the Detective Brunelli series set in Venice. I know I’ve missed a few books in the series, because they only became available in the U.S. a couple of years ago and our stores don’t stock all of them. And, also set in Venice, I read City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (writer of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil). This is non-fiction, about the fire at the Fenice Opera House and all sorts of the interesting Venetians and expats that make up Venetian society.

I think that about covers it for now! Happy reading!