Reading Update!

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Calling all family drama lovers!  I think Down with the Shipmans by Meg Mitchell Moore (OUT 6/2) is going to be the perfect Summer read to throw in your beach bag.  This story is about three sisters who head to their family summer home in New Hampshire for what they assume is their annual family reunion—the first without their mother.  Instead, their father drops the news that he plans to sell the house.  So they start going through their mother’s things all while each are hiding things that are going on in their lives.  Oh and their Dad has a new wife!  This is a story of family and sisterly connections.  I enjoyed the audiobook that is narrated by Eva Kaminsky—Thank you @librofm for ALC!

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I’ve been pretty busy lately and wanted an easy book to read.  I didn’t know if Phoebe Bergman’s Gonna Lost It by Brooke Averick (OUT 5/26) with its storyline of a twenty-nine-year-old determined to lose virginity by her thirtieth birthday would be for me; however this book puts the com in rom-com.  But, more importantly than being funny it is an excellent book beautifully highlighting anxiety and OCD.  Overall, it’s a just very sweet book that I’m enjoying.  Thank you @prhaudio for the gifted audiobook.  It’s narrated by the author who apparently is well known on tiktok and also has a podcast. (I’m not familiar)  My only quibble is she talks so fast!  I had to turn down my normal listening speed quite a bit.

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Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla (OUT 5/19) - This book is comped to Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street that I quite enjoyed.  A striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel, and generous figures that make up her universe. This haunting and lyrical novel captures the fault lines of an existence marked by economic insecurity, exploring what it means to come of age during a moment of displacement. Beautiful, evocative, and emotionally charged, Amanda Rizkalla’s Hungered is an indelible ode to survival, memory, and the search for home in its many forms.

What are you reading?