oh boy! as may ends, i realize i haven't posted april's reading. here to correct that! in april i read:
yellowface, by r.f. kuang (this had been on a lot of lists and i picked it up - and now it has been announced that the author is speaking in pittsburgh next year, so i'm excited to see her speak. this book raises a lot of ethical questions around authorship and what kind of stories we can tell. the set up of the book is kind of salacious, which i liked - an intriguing death early in the book sets the plot in motion. i'd recommend this!)
little house in the big woods, by laura ingalls wilder (i've decided to re-read the little house books, accompanied by the podcast "wilder" and listening to an audiobook (prairie fires) that is a biography of wilder. this book was a little more boring than i remembered, if i'm honest, but i'm thoroughly enjoying immersing myself in wilder's writing and her world.)
carnegie's maid, by marie benedict (we wanted to use this as an option of a summer reading book, so i read it to preview it - historical fiction with the main character who is andrew carnegie's mother's maid. liked but didn't love it! we did end up putting it on our summer reading list.)
harlem shuffle, by colson whitehead (i liked this book - the world and characters the author creates are vivid and captivating - but the plot moved super slowly and i felt like i never really got into the rhythm with it.)
the husbands, by holly gramazio (totally charmed by this book, a read with jenna book club pick. have already bought a copy for a friend! the premise is that the main character is single, but comes home to find a man in her house - her husband! he goes into the attic to get something and a different man appears. her attic is producing husbands! i really enjoyed this book and would recommend it as the perfect beach read!)
