Goodreads Update August '22 pt.1
This is quite a bit later than I normally like to post it. It would have been the July Goodreads Update pt. 2, but I couldn't get it done, so I'm making it a very early August update.
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Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - This romance is set in the 1960s when Elizabeth Zott suffers from gender stereotyping and misogyny in the lab. Then she becomes a star on a cooking show, because cooking is just chemistry. She takes the opportunity to teach women about science while she's teaching them to cook.
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The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick - Liv is a single mother of two who lands an awesome job as maid for her favorite reclusive authors.
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How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo - "The politics and ethics of reading." Yes please.
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The Pink Hotel by Liska Jacobs - This is a thriller in which a newlywed couple is staying at a fancy hotel in Los Angeles when wildfires break out and the city and the hotel becomes chaos.
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Calling For a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah - This is about a young Native man who is seeing all the injustice and hardship his family faces and is trying to find a place for himself in the world.
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Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty - More native stories. Also about what it means to be Native in the 21st century.
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - All I know is this is a retelling of David Copperfield set in the Appalachias. Also, it's by Barbara Kingsolver.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - Enough people finally told me how fabulous this is that I went ahead and added it. It's 3 timelines woven around a single manuscript.
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin - I went to a bookstore near my work that I'd never been to. I bought this book and then I obviously had to add to my to-read list. It's the second in the Broken Earth Series.
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A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee - Ok. We'll see. I'm kind of getting over the cooking/baking romance thing.
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The Dating Dare by Jayci Lee - I see. So apparently, I thought this sounded good so I put the first in the series on my list first. Now I don't know why I thought this sounded good.
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Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan - Nora writes romance screenplays. When her husband takes off, she turns her own story into a blockbuster movie script. And her husband will be played by the sexiest man alive. AND it will be shot at her house.
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The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery - Ok. This is not my usual fare. It's part of a genre I call "women's fiction". Mostly they take place on a beach, feature women and their relationships, and are pretty predictable. Something about this one made me add it to the list. We'll see.
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Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan - Whelan is a famous audiobook narrator. So she wrote a romance about audiobook narrators. Sounds unique, so I added it.
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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton - Newton's family has a bunch of quirky characters. Her own father is a racist whose father married 13 times. Her mother performs exorcisms in their house. Maud decided to go spelunking in her family's history to figure out how they got to her.
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Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Luarence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway - I don't know. Seems like a good time.
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Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith - This is a graphic novel about these 4 women and the day they set aside regularly to wash and care for their hair.
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Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews - I can't decide if this is a thriller or what. Florence wants to be a famous writer, Maud Dixon. She gets hired as assistant to a famously anonymous writer who gives her many pointers even though she's kind of a bitch. On a trip to Morocco for research, Maud dies and Florence wonders if she can step into her shoes.
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Undistracted: Capture Your Puprose Rediscover Your Joy by Bob Goff - Goff is a Christian writer that is a favourite of many of my friends. This one looks interesting. I guess I'll give him a shot.
And there it is! I will probably not do another Goodreads Update until the end of August unless I go hog wild and add a bunch of books before that.