End of Month/Beginning of Month Reading

I had to finish Open City by Teju Cole, it was due back at the library. The first third of this book was very enjoyable. It had me until the trip to Belgium - a detour into philosophy and religion I really did not want to take and did not enjoy. It gets back to basics toward the end of the book. It is a love letter to old New York. The book won the PEN/Hemingway award and is a first novel in 2012 along with quite a few other writing awards.

Hardcover Book

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Written by a 17 year old female narrator in the 1930s. It is just a nice book, nothing too exciting happens. The writer writes dialogue very well and has great descriptive powers. It is a book that sneaks up on you and suddenly you find yourself quite enjoying the read.

Audio Book

Spare by Prince Harry. This book is growing in affection on me. I realize it is written from the author's viewpoint but if even half of what he has written is true he has been hounded by the press his entire life.

Kindle Book

Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley. The book continues to be interesting. it is also a book you can pick up and put down for a while. When you return you don't seem to have lost the threads of the story - each chapter is semi-contained.

Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling. I was able to download this book from Kindle Unlimited at no cost on world book day. It begins in Canada with a woman who has just lost her mother. I am hoping they also flesh out the husband in the book because from little snippets dropped in sentences he seems just as interesting as the other main characters.