Booksie's Shelves, November 18, 2019

It's almost Thanksgiving which is one of my favorite holidays.  There is food and family, football and lazy day indulgence.  This year my husband and I are driving down three hours to Columbia where my daughter is in her senior year of college and my son and his girlfriend are driving up from Atlanta to meet us there.  We're all going to meet for a meal and fellowship and I'm looking forward to it.  The local museum is having a Van Gogh exhibit that we can see while there and all in all, it should be a great day.  About two weeks ago I went to a great event at Bookmarks, a fantastic bookstore in Winston-Salem.  There were three speakers.  One was a publisher's representative who talked about upcoming books of note, another was a friend of mine who heads up the National Women's Reading group to present her list of best reads for this year and talk about successful strategies for book clubs and third was the author Therese Ann Fowler to talk about her latest novel, A Good Neighborhood.  As we left, we each got a book bag full of ARCs and it was one of the most satisfying events I've attended.  Here's what's come through the door lately:

1.  A Good Neighborhood, Therese Anne Fowler, literary fiction, gift
2.  Just Watch Me, Jeff Lindsay, thriller, sent by publisher
3.  The Rabbit Hunter, Lars Kepler, mystery, sent by publisher
4.  Our Better Angels, Jonathan Reckford, nonfiction, sent by publisher
5.  FKA USA, Reed King, literary fiction, gift
6.  The Idiot, Elif Batuman, literary fiction, purchased
7.  Cilka's Journey, Heather Morris, literary fiction, gift
8.  Renia's Diary, Renia Spiegel, memoir, gift
9.  A Rip In Heaven, Jeanine Cummins, memoir, purchased
10.  Greenwood, Michael Christie, literary fiction, won in contest
11.  The Wildlands, Abby Geni, literary fiction, purchased

Here's what I'm reading:

1.  All The Paths Of Shadow, Frank Tuttle, Kindle Fire
2.  Moon, Jewell Parker Rhodes, paperback
3.  The Last Of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez, hardback
4.  The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone, Felicity McLean, audio
5.  The News From Paraguay, Lily Tuck, paperback
6.  The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan, paperback
7.  Comanche Empire, Pekka Hamalainen, paperback

Happy Reading!