What Fiction are you reading this week, November 5, 2023?

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. When We Were Sisters

by Emilie Richards. It's the story of two women who grew up together in foster care from the time one was 9 and the other 14. One, Cecilia, went on to become a famous country singer, while the other, Robin, a talented photographer, is married to a driven lawyer, Kris, and lives in suburbia. They're reunited doing a documentary on the foster care system. It's really good so far, although there is no background on Robin and what got her into foster care at all.

On my other Kindle, I'm reading Babel, Around the World in Twenty Languages, by Gaston Dorren. It's nonfiction but deserves a mention. My love of languages drew me to it, and it's really fascinating, a study of the 20 languages spoken by the most people on earth and what makes them go. I learned, for instance, that Japanese is "gendered", spoken in different ways by men and women, although it's becoming less so recently as women push for equality. Who knew?