Classic of the Week
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Set during the 1920s and 1940s, the story follows Charles Ryder and his friendship with a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a lavish mansion. It was made into a television adaptation in 1981, and a film adaptation in 2008. This is a story about forbidden romance. This is the book club pick for the month.
Non-Fiction of the Week
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
This is a memoir that details the author’s battle with leukemia. She set out after college to pursue a career as a war correspondent but end up having to fight cancer through countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trail, and bone marrow transplant. She also has to get back into the world, so goes on a 100-day road trip with her terrier dog Oscar.
Literary Fiction of the Week
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
Kate is a sommelier in San Francisco. She travels to France to help with a grape harvest in a vineyard. Her mother left a generation ago, so Kate returns and finds a family connection to the second world war through a collection of papers from Nazi-occupied France. There is an aunt that Kate never knew about.
Currently Reading
The Encanto’s Daughter by Melissa de la Cruz
This is the first book in a duology, with the second book released on March 4, 2025. This is a YA Romantasy that follows MJ Robertson-Rodriguez who sets out to find more about the magical world of the encantos and whether she can be worthy being in line to the throne. The story draws from Filipino folklore.
Alligator by Lisa Moore
This is the first novel from Canadian author Lisa Moore published in 2005 that started a career and a genre of fiction called North Atlantic Gothic. Set in Newfoundland, the story follows a family where the daughter has been caught in an act of vandalism, and the mother dealing with the grief for the passing of her husband. It is about modern life, and the environmentalism that has gained popularity as a response.
Posted: Thursday, April 3, 2025
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