What Are We Reading this Year?
What are our contributors reading?
May – June
Melanie Warner Spencer
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. It’s a gorgeously written epistolary novel centered on a 70-year-old retired lawyer who does not suffer fools. Confession: I cried at the end.
John Kemp
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. This remarkable and beautifully written new biography creates a vibrant and at times tragic portrait of this American original with all his complexities, shadows, humor, faults, failings, brilliance and literary triumphs.
Lisa Leblanc Berry
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan. He positions himself as both a guide and a guinea pig, this time stitching together personal experience with philosophy and neuroscience, suggesting that the deeper we look into the mind, the more it resembles a hall of mirrors.
March – April
Liz Williams
How to Cook a Coyote by nonagenarian food writer, Betty Fussell. It is a book about aging with a metaphor of a coyote laughing at us about our lives. It is funny and realistic. And it is peppered with food.
Eugenia Uhl
Give Me the World by Leila Hadley. She’s a newly divorced single mother who takes her son to the Far East in 1958. Very descriptive writing. You feel like you are there. Armchair traveling.
Cheré Coen
Twenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley Tate. A deadly accident occurs upon a bridge but why did the driver wait 27 minutes to call an ambulance? The book offers a gripping mystery that doesn’t reveal its answer until the very last pages.
