My favorite book searching tool has posted! This year, I'm gravitating towards these biographies and memoirs.
Mr. B by Jennifer Homans
Scenes from My Life by Michael K. Williams
Solito by Javier Zamora
Dear Denise by Lisa McNair
Star Child by Ibi Zoboi
Recently my library curated a list of novels based on historical figures. From that list, I found two completely engrossing reads.
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Fowler takes us into a deeply troubled, yet fascinating
family. Although the action culminates in the event that made this name
infamous, the stories of John’s siblings are equally, if not more, dramatic. Nothing
less would be expected from the offspring of a Shakespearean actor.
The Mayfair Bookshop
by Eliza Knight
In this novel, we enter the world of Nancy Mitford. A
struggling, though not impoverished writer, Mitford longs for acclaim. As her 30th
birthday approaches, she enters into a marriage of convenience and soon
discovers her husband lacks what it takes to be the breadwinner. So Mitford turns
her family’s foibles into the perfect plot for her next project. Fast forward
to the present, Lucy, a young library curator, travels to London on assignment.
She lands in Mitford’s bookshop and begins searching for clues to solve a
long-running mystery in her own family.
For more titles, see this list.
Anyone else still reeling from the season finale of Bad Sisters? If you need something to fill the void, try Sally Hepworth’s The Good Sister.
Fern, a librarian, is our protagonist and narrator.
When her sister Rose finds out she can’t have a baby, Fern decides to remedy
the situation. She does this, in part, because of the guilt she still carries -
but doesn’t quite understand - from a
tragic event from their childhood. When Rose’s overbearing personality grates
on her, she has this to say:
“Still, the illogical irritation is there. But
illogical irritation is something one is allowed to have with one’s sister. I
have read enough books about sisters to know that is true.”
But in this particular book, revealing what’s true
makes for a stunning plot twist.
