But already I’m itching to sink my teeth into weightier books, and when May comes around I’ll be ready to. Just in time for reading-outside weather!
Baileys Longlist nominations:
I really want to read some of the books on this year’s Bailey’s longlist, an award given every year to women authors around the world. I haven’t had much success reading their winners lately; I couldn’t get through May We Be Forgiven or How to be both. But the longlist always has good things on it, and this year’s list really mixes it up, including a thriller and a space opera.
- A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- The Golden Chord by Geraldine Brooks
- The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie (because I wanted to read someone I’d never heard of)
- The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (same reason)
- Pleasantville by Attica Locke
Books on hold at the library (e-books, so technically not “at” the library)
- City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
- Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
- Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed
Waiting for me on my Kindle:
- Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
- The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemison
And a re-read: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, to get ready for the return of Outlander.
So of course that’s way more than I’m going to have time to read. Any recommendations?