Nevermore 6-16-26
Reported by Rita
Happily Ever After and Everything in Between by Deborah
Tung
Inspired by Debbie Tung’s marriage to her extrovert husband,
this collection of comics captures the essence of everyday love—showcasing both
the sweet moments and the mundane experiences.
This was a fun, quick read - I really liked it. -CD 4 stars
Flesh by David Szalay
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment
complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals
practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of
events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In
the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest,
of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further
from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he
could possibly have imagined.
It's
minimalistic, with really short conversations. It was interesting and made me
think, but I was kind of hoping for more of a plot. -VC
4 stars
King's Mountain by Sharyn McCrumb
John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American
Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the
wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his
settlement—promising to burn the farms and kill families—the war became
personal.
That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British
Army—who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor
of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted lover to his mistress, Virginia Sal,
Patrick becomes a delightful anti-hero under McCrumb’s watchful eye.
Through varying perspectives, King’s Mountain is a saga of the
Carolina Overmountain Men—the militia organized by Sevier (who would later
become the first governor of Tennessee) and their victory in 1780 against the
Tories in a battle that Thomas Jefferson later called, "The turning point
of the American Revolution."
War is a
depressing subject, but the book is good and worth reading. -DC
4 stars
Other
Books Mentioned
We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune
The Correspondent by
Virginia Evans
Before It's Gone by Jonathan Vigiotti
Shield of Sparrows by
Devney Perry
All the Little Hopes by Leah
Weiss
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel
New
Books
I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies
I Think Will Make Me Happy by Kate Strickler
Lidie by Jane Smiley
The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline
The Geography Book by DK
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