Hello Bookworms,
If the books below are a reflection of the year ahead, 2017 has the potential to be a great reading year.
I'm reading Lillian Boxfish now. Most of you know my family is from NYC, my mother still lives in the city. I can imagine my father's mother telling her story while taking a stroll. She was a storyteller. I'm enjoying this book, listening while walking the dogs.
Lucky Boy deals with a sensitive issue worth reading, especially if you live in the USA right now. I recently met a mother who fears deportation. When I asked her why, she said her teenage son will get in trouble. Her husband drives without a license and has four traffic tickets (they own a car but have no insurance). She came to America in the 90's, from South America via California before settling in New Jersey. This woman told me she's living the American Dream.
Have you read any of the books below? Read a great book recently that I need to add to my list? I'm traveling soon so I'm looking for books to fill my ipad.
~ Happy Reading, Mari
Lillian Boxfish takes a Walk:
It’s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk.
As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards, bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be—in surprising moments of generosity and grace. While she strolls, Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America—a career cut short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown.
The House of Dreams:
A fascinating real-life story. In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist struggling to begin her career and with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca.
Lucky Boy: A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.
Rebirth:a fable of love, forgiveness, and following your heartInspired by the author's own pilgrimage of walking the legendary Camino de Santiago across Spain comes Rebirth, a novel of reconciliation and forgiveness.
A Fine Imitation:Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite’s restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin.
Selection Day: Manju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know . . . Everyone around him, it seems, has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself.
