Conjure women

This is a good one!  I started a book last night about a door....and wasn't enticed to read more tonight.  But after five minutes of listening to this book tonight, I know it is one that I will finish,

'Til the Well Runs Dry

 

This book is a change of pace for me.

This has been a difficult book for me.  The politics of Trinidad are too hard,  The characters' lives are too hard,  But I turned it on tonight.  I had to write down .....hmmm....what is his name....Farouk....his mother comes to visit him in prison. She says that "they" have asked her to come.  And he looks at his very pretty mother and wonders why his father was able to "Win her as a wife" ....and it comes to him,  Her difficult personality cause her parents to just choose anyone who would  "take her away".....she is from an Indian family.  And the main character who is her son is thinking that she may have married below her family's wealth and her beauty.  It is an interesting thought.

The book continued to be too hard for it's entirety.  But I could not leave it unfinished.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

I am reading this via audible.  I mentioned to a buddy that many years ago when my life was BUSY with babies and husband and all sorts of miscellaneous "stuff", I read a book about a book club.  I think that the name of it was "And the Ladies of the Club".....and I loved it.  But many of my buddies in that time period didn't love the book....not enough action.  But if I remember this correctly my life was overly busy and I relished the calm and slow moving book  Now in this very slow moving time of lock downs and social distancing, I find this book to be a bit slow....not enough action.  I believe that if I had read it in a busier part of my life, I would have liked it much more.

In December 2023 I found myself finishing one book and starting The Glorious Cause.  I LOVED the first part about the battle of Brooklyn Heights and decided I did not want to read any more until January when I had more time and more concentration. 

 I had enough people who really liked this book and so I finished it.  And I was glad that I had finished it.  It had a very nice closing to it.  Or then perhaps I liked it better because I was again in a very busy part of my life....who knows?