Ack! Which Book Should I Read?
I have a 13 books to choose. Which one will be next?
- Lucky Girl: A Memoir, Mai-Ling Hopgood. I didn’t request this one, but Algonquin Books sent it to me. Ms. Hopgood was one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, faces her past when her Chinese birth family requests a reunion after more than two decades. I’m not very keen on memoirs, but this does seem interesting that her birth family wanted to meet her.
- Siren’s Feast: An Edible Odyssey, Nancy Mehagian. This is another memoir.
- A Mad Desire to Dance, Elie Wiesel. I have a soft spot for Elie Wiesel. Everytime I look at his photograph and stare into his sad eyes, my heart does a little flip. I’ve only read Night and Dawn so I thought I would venture to read more of his books. This one is about a European expat living in New York who suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss and his relationship with his psychiatrist.
- Three books from Palgrave Macmillan all on Spain:
–Franco and the Axis Stigma, David Winegate Pike
–Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain, Enrique A. Sanabria
–Roosevelt and Franco during the Second World War, Joan Maria Thomas
- From the great publicists (Lauren, Susan, and Sarah) at Oxforford University Press:
–After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995, Konrad Jarausch
–Fleeing Hitler: France 1940, Hanna Diamond
–The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terrorism, Beverly Gage
- Target Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton, Robert K. Wilcox
- Etta, Gerald Koplon. This is historical fiction. It intrgued me because it’s about Etta Place, The Sundance Kid’s girlfriend. Not much is know about her and I’m curious of how he’s handled this.
- The Last Dickens, Matthew Pearl
- Drood, Dan Morris
Rebeca Schiller is the editor of Alvah's Books. She reviews literary fiction and non-fiction.
Hi Exiled,
Please read Siren’s Feast. I’ve got over 100 emails from readers who all said they couldn’t put it down. When you finish, you’ve still got a cookbook. I’ve been told that the worst thing about my book is that it ends. Happy reading.
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