What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025?

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"To be surrounded by books is an exceptional joy." - Cynthia Kuhn


Reading Moonfloweer Murders by Anthony Horowitz. Big book; evidently two books combined. So many characters. Looks like this will keep me busy for a while.

Listening to I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue, a "wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy." Ah, thd good old days of working in an office...

Hello, June!

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1. I finished Isola by Allegra Goodman.

It was about a young woman abandoned on a deserted island by her guardian, along with her lover and nurse. Bleak but pretty good. Now I’m reading a pshych/thriller, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner.

I hope you enjoy I Hope This Finds You Well as much as I did!

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6. I was pleasantly surprised

to find that one was available; no waiting. It is quite funny. And sweet.

[txwhitedove]

2. Lovely day to you. Now reading a new author to me, Chris Whitaker, with a different cadence.

We Begin at the End, had me hooked on first page. Spare but sharp, can it be like a Jackson Pollack painting, splat, dribble, wow? "Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids." Author is award winner and I'll be searching for more of his books.

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4. That one sounds good!

I’ve got his All Colors of the Dark on my TBR shelf, too many books, too little time.

[ImNotGod]

3. Any corporate owned US news paper I peruse in the library. nt

[cbabe]

5. Horse/Geraldine Brooks

As recommended here.

Good reading. Plantation horse beeder to civil war to modern day Smithsonian science.

‘Inspired by the remarkable true story of the record breaking thoroughbred Lexington…A novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.’

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7. And then the ending...

Wow! That was unexpected.

I've spent some time looking up The International Museum of the Horse. What an amazing place. And Thomas Scott was a real artist. There are bunches of his horse portraits all around the Web. Here is actual painting of Lexington:
https://pixels.com/featured/portrait-of-lexington-ca-thomas-j-scott-american.html

Amazing book!

[cbabe]

8. Yes, the ending is very dark.