Nevermore: Black Bird Oracle, Happy-Go-Lucky, Chicken Soup for the Soul

 Nevermore 4-29-25  Reported by Rita

 

The Black Bird Oracle: A Novel (#5 in All Souls Series) by Deborah Harkness

When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their 7-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop forges a different path. She confronts her family's dark past and reckons with her desire for even greater power—if she can let go of her fear of wielding it.

Not my favorite book in the series, but it ties up loose ends. It's a really good read.     - MH     4 stars

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touri

9 out of 5 stars! This was touching and funny. Absolutely great!     - CD     5 stars  

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter's Always the Best Medicine: 101 Feel-Good Stories by Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul's first-ever humor collection, including stories from spouses to parents to children to colleagues and friends that tell about their own mishaps and those most embarrassing moments.

The stories are very happy, funny, and good, but some felt a little repetitive.     - MS     4 stars

 

Other Books Mentioned

 

Make Me by Lee Child

A Woman Who Went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

Moment in Peking by Yutang Lin

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

Boom!: Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How it Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow by Tom Brokaw

Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches by Ernie Pyle

Sunpath by Michael Maryk

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

Living in the Light by Deepak Chopra

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

Against the Wind by J. F. Freeman

 

New Books

 

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher

King of the North: Martin Luther King's Life of Struggle Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis