Read:
I am Homeless if This is Not My Home – Lorrie Moore (Bond Street Books, 2023)
The Whole Animal – Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023)
The Parables of Grace – Robert Farrar Capon (Wiliam B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 1990)
Bad Cree – Jessica Johns (Harper Collins, 2023)
Travels with my Aunt – Graham Greene (Vintage Books, 2011)
Poirot Investigates – Agatha Christie (Pan Books, 1968)
Of Love and Other Demons – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (translation by Edith Grossman) (Penguin Books, 2005)
The Water Cure – Sophie Mackintosh (Random House Audio, 2019)
Did Not Finish:
The Sweetness of Water – Nathan Harris
Nothing really wrong with this book but it was easy for me to lose interest. Partly it was that I was listening to it on audio and when the kids got out of school my audio book time drastically decreased and so I stopped listening and never went back. And partly I’ve come to realize that I’m not interested in the American Civil War and probably never will be. I don’t have enough background knowledge to be immersed in the setting (which army wore grey and which wore blue? I can never remember) and don’t have enough interest to want to do the research required to follow along.)
Currently Reading:
Sun House – David James Duncan
Cursed Bread – Sophie Mackintosh
2023 GOALS:
Books Read: 63/100 (8 read in July)
Translated Works: 6/15 (Of Love and Other Demons, translated from Spanish)
Books I Already Own: 16/30 (Parables of Grace, Travels with my Aunt, and Of Love and Other Demons)
Books From the TBR pre-2020: 9/20 (Parables of Grace and Travels with my Aunt)
Current TBR: 209 (previously 210)
Thoughts: Pretty good total considering that summer is always kind of hit and miss when it comes to reading for me. I read 3 of these books in one week when I went away to Ontario without Peter or the girls (more on that later). Flying with carry-on only had me carefully considering what books to bring and which to leave behind!
I’m badly behind (again) on writing reviews but July’s highlight was Parables of Grace (I folded down so many pages as I read and immediately ordered the companion books). The rest were good but each with their flaws that kept me from completely falling in love.
What’s Next:
My 15 Books of Summer challenge:
June
Telling Secrets – Frederick Buechner
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
Wilder Girls – Rory Power
The Sleeping Car Porter – Suzette Mayr
Scandal – Shusaku Endo
July
The Parables of Grace – Capon
Of Love and Other Demons – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tiger’s Wife – Obreht
Curiosity – Thomas (I picked this up at a secondhand book sale a while back and so put it on my list as Canadian content. But looking at it more closely and realizing that Joan Thomas wrote Five Wives which I didn’t really enjoy, I decided to skip this one and read Graham Greene in July instead and will replace that with something else in August.)
Sun House – Duncan
August
The Cocktail Party – T.S. Eliot
The Catch – Fairbrother
The Flanders Road – Simon
The Glass-Blowers – Daphne du Maurier
Travels with my Aunt – Graham Greene
Karissa Reads Books 
I look forward to your thoughts on Glass Blowers, as that is a du Maurier I have not yet read.
Also, the dog’s lil blep!
I picked up a lovely hardcover version of it at a secondhand sale. Otherwise I know nothing about it!
I’ve never read a du Maurier I hated.
That’s good to hear!
Travels with my Aunt is on my shelves, I think, waiting for the right moment. I love Greene but have to be in the right mood for him.
This one felt kind of different than his usual work too. It’s slightly more humorous and a little more over-the-top.