If you like to read (especially before bed), and need something that is sweet and tender with a good message, that will likely make you cry, order this book ahhhhh-mediately. As in toot sweet or get your tail right on it!
About a month or so ago, I read this article in the NYT about books to read right now. I followed Ann Patchett's lead and ordered up a copy of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane from my local bookstore. This is a book I will want to revisit every 5 years or so. Maybe every 3 years if my memory continues to fade. In the meantime I am also going to order up Raymie Nightingale, Louisiana's Way Home, and Beverly, Right Here. Because times are hard, and even while we stand up for what is right, we most definitely need good stories that take us out of the moment and put our hearts in the right place.
It+2 are ordered and thank you for the recommendation.
Posted by: jacki long | 06/03/2020 at 11:26 PM
A "counter-recommendation" Have you read "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek? It's a grim but beautifully written story of the first pack libraries of Kentucky: a 1930's WPA force of women who--by mule, horse, or foot--delivered to the back hills a meager stock of books, newspapers, magazines, and self-assembled scrapbooks of household clippings. Poverty and prejudice haunt the pages, but it's a lovely picture of the compassion and loyalty those isolated families felt for each other.
Posted by: Sharon | 06/05/2020 at 07:54 AM
Sharon: I will have to look that up, haven't heard about it. thanks for the recommendation.
Posted by: carol | 06/13/2020 at 05:33 PM