Chesapeake

 oh, my gosh....one of those nights when I chose exactly the right book.....

I was a bit tired of the kinds of books that I had been reading.....I wanted a book that was not hard....not too much thinking but still giving me real understanding of a time and a place......I don't know how I was lucky enough to find exactly what my brain needed right now.  I can not say enough good things about what I have read so far.  It starts with Indians before the white man comes to the Chesapeake.....oh, my....the book is worth the price of reading if that is all you read.  This man had an incredible imagination.

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

 I had mixed feelings about this book.  Totally implausible plot.....and an end that had too many syrupy lines.  But I still finished the book and looked forward to turning it on at the end of the day.  There were enough good parts and peeking into the life of someone in a nursing home to keep me entertained.  I listened to this fiction on audible as usual.

Monogamy

Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple.

Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetites—curious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annie’s comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and introspective, is a photographer. She is about to have her first gallery show after a six-year lull and is worried that the best years of her career may be behind her. They have two adult children; Lucas, Graham’s son with his first wife, Frieda, works in New York. Annie and Graham’s daughter, Sarah, lives in San Francisco. Though Frieda is an integral part of this far-flung, loving family, Annie feels confident in the knowledge that she is Graham’s last and greatest love.

When Graham suddenly dies—this man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate their lives together—Annie is lost. What is the point of going on, she wonders, without him?

Then, while she is still mourning Graham intensely, she discovers a ruinous secret, one that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the man who loved her.

I have just started the book and so far I like it a lot.  

Finished the book last night and I won't yell and scream about it.  But it was a good steady read and easy to put down and pick up.  Not sure above is a perfect description, but it is good enough that I will not take time to say more....except that absolutely this book was NOT about monogamy.  However, I did like the characters and the way they were so entertwined because of Graham.