Play Book Tag discussion

1) The Art of Political Murder
2) Remarkably Bright Creatures
3)My brilliant Friend
4)The Story of a new Name
5)Those Who Leave and Those Who stay
6) The Story of the Lost Child
7) West with Giraffes
8) The Glass Hotel
9) Hello Beautiful
10) When Neitzhe Wept

Sally - that is a terrific summer reading list!

11Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

12) The Chosen and the Beautiful

I will read the chosen and the beautiful with you

Great. I can start tonight

Let me know when you are planning to read it. I can choose something else for now

Actually I’m going to read The Glass Hotel first

Books read so far
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Glass Hotel
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

My Brilliant Friend

I read all but 1,7,10 and 12.

2024 Trim
The Art of Political Murder
The Home at the End of the World
Scarlett Epstein Hates it Here
It’s What I Do. A Photographers Life of Love and War

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
What Are You Going Through
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Watership Down
The Professors House

Ghana Must Go

A Good Hard Look
Ann Napolitano

A House for Alice by Diane Evans

The Covenant of Water

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Tom Lake
Hamnet
Henry and Clara
Apeirogon
The Overstory

Demon Copperhead
The Nursery
Trust

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

Just piping in to say that I am probably reading, chosen and beautiful in December 2023 and definitely reading the covenant of water in January 1924. So neither of those are on my trim list because they’re actually happening in real time. But heaven and our grocery store is on my trim list for 2024. I have the feeling will have a nice buddy read for that one.

Definitely. I reserved Covenant of Water at least twice from the library and forgot yto pick it up It's there now and I'm picking it up tomorrow so that may be my next read. I'm reading Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro right now. You would love it

I totally had that on my list, but given what’s happening with my mother…. I had even bought it for her as a present. I think I need to stay away from that one for quite a few years. But we will have plenty together. I know it.

What's going on with your mother? I've read all your posts about your parents but I didn't know there was something wrong.

I know that they're elderly and how difficult that is.

I'm sorry . That was insensitive of me.

No worries Sally. I haven’t spoken about it more than a few times and it would be easy to miss if you weren’t on daily. My mother has steadily lost her mind, and she’s dealing with a lot of the kinds of things that signal fires talks about. It’s been going on for close to two years and it has me in tears most of the time. Oddly enough, I bought her the book as a birthday present, completely unaware that it was the exact wrong book to get. But she had loved inheritance so much, Dani Shapiro’s other book. I had given it to her when I finished it when we were in Israel and she went crazy for it so naturally, I bought the next. She’s not in acceptance about what’s happening to her and I think it’s making my father a little crazy. That was an understatement. He’s having a rough go of it. Anyway, I’ll be with them in December and Aspen but then again, I’ll also be with them when I come to New York to help them clean out the apartment. And then I will see them in February. But I’m already mapping out my spring because I have the feeling it’s going to get rougher. I’m absolutely prepared to get the call. And the call could be a lot of different things, although I have a few on my mind of what I think they might be. And I’m really psychically tuned into mid to late spring. But the call is coming. I’m ready. I just have to meet this with as much love and compassion as possible.

I’m so sorry

Amy- Just letting you know that I picked up Covenant of Water from the library ( finally) and plant to read it for December if you're interested. I know that you were planning on reading it in January 2024.