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Books mentioned in this topic
When the Moon Hits Your Eye (other topics)Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation (other topics)
These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes (other topics)
Life Derailed (other topics)
Getting this week's check-in out a little late. Sorry about that. I hope you all had a good week. It was school vacation week here. My children are all adults, but it did mean less traffic around.
We visited my Mom for Easter last weekend and were able to listen to When the Moon Hits Your Eye for the car ride. We literally had 20 minutes left by the time we arrived home. I went for a walk and finished it. I thoroughly enjoyed it just like I've enjoyed his other present-date recent novels. It was a lot of small tales of various people and how they react. It was an interesting construction and it worked for me.
From the week before I also finished Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation. I give this 3 stars. It ended a bit better/more interesting for me when she stayed more on-topic. It was an interesting history with fair-poor narrative construction. But I'm glad I read it.
I am quite close to finishing listening to These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes. I think the audiobook is missing out on a lot of photos that would help. It is a very uncommon book and I cannot find it anywhere to get the physical book in my library system. Interesting note is that the link for the author is completely wrong on GR and other places. It goes to another author of the same name that writes non-fiction about art history and forgeries. There is a YouTube video from the public library in the next town that recorded a Zoom session with both of them.
I am now reading Life Derailed on my Kindle. It was an Amazon First Reads selection. It is about AI taking over some jobs (in a fiction novel, not sure yet if it is a romance or "just" a novel).
QOTW:
Using one word, how would you describe your family?
For my family, defined as myself, my husband and our adult children (and their spouses to some extend) the word would be 'direct'. We all get along and love each other for sure. We are a pretty good functional family among ourselves. And being from New England we are often blunt and direct with each other. Clear communication is super important to us. This certainly starts to break down as you move to extended family such as our siblings and cousins and such.