Hello, March and some serious Spring Break reading....
We Would Never by Tova Mirvis - Okay, I'm not a "true crime" gal, so maybe that's why I didn't love this story of basically all unlikeable characters.
Till there Was You by Lindsay Hameroff - a sweet and cute book about a chef and a rock star...and their love story. I appreciated the lowkey Jewish character and the matzah ball soup...(even though the spelling of "till" in the title really annoys me)
One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn and Theo Ellsworth - hmm...I might not have been the target audience for this strange book, but I'm trying to figure out who that audience actually is. I found it a little bit hard to follow, so maybe someone out there can explain it to me?
Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff - I appreciated the two lesser known stories of World War 2 - the British delivering Red Cross packages (it also just fueled my current anger at the ICRC for their lack of assistance then (Holocaust) as now with the hostages in Gaza) and the prisoners in a Paris department store. A little bland but readable!
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins - The hard part of a prequel is that you kinda already know the ending but this one still held me on the edge of my seat. And now I'm loving the tiktok theories, the online speculation, and all the ways that the fan base is taking this one really hard. I like it even more upon later reflection on the complexity of the story. Did she know all this backstory when she wrote the original trilogy!?
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza - This was on a lot of "top" lists last year and for some reason I didn't think I'd like it...and I only sortof liked it. I liked the historical story more than the contemporary one.
Never Planned on You by Lindsay Hameroff - a companion to the book by this author that I read earlier in the month, it's a sweet romance. The Jewish representation was a little less low-key, but still incidental and also felt really authentic.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler - I don't know how I missed this one when it first came out but to be honest, it was almost too close to home. I read it through squinting eyes hoping not to see the next terrible thing. But I think she's a great writer and it was compelling and hard and also a little odd...
Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld - I really don't like short story collections. Either the stories all feel too similar, or they end too quickly, or it's too uneve of an experience. I felt all of that as I read these. I liked a few of the stories better than others, but I kept getting annoyed at having to start a new story just when I was figuring the previous one out. I'm sticking to novels.
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