What are you reading?

[Orema]

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet by John Branch

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...st-deaths.html

In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year later, to find them and bring them home.

[homoe]

Tremble and Burn by Anna Furtado

When Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg arrives in San Francisco from Baltimore in December, 1905, to begin a medical practice funded by wealthy matrons, she’s not only running toward a new life-she’s running away from her old one. Threats from a ruthless brother, who threatened to expose her affair with a woman, make Elizabeth determined not to compromise her reputation as she begins this new phase of her life. All is well, until she meets Maggie Weston.

Maggie, a photographer with a thriving studio on Market Street also harbors a secret, which brought her to San Francisco from Boston a few years before. Her work and her independence are fulfilling. She thinks she doesn’t need anything more in her new life other than her photography that is, until Elizabeth Kellogg walks into her shop.
Just started it but so far so good...

[Venus007]

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.

I just finished his newish book, The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, which details how Lyra came to Oxford so I had to read TGC again because it's been ages.


Teaser...
Part 1: Oxford
Meet our protagonist, Lyra, and her daemon Pantalaimon (the shape-shifting animal that is her soul), or Pan for short. They live at Oxford University's Jordan College, among scholars and other brainy-types. Lyra is an orphan whose parents were killed when she was very young. Her uncle, Lord Asriel, is her guardian. He's a powerful and sometimes scary man involved with politics. For the most part, though, she is cared for by the scholars at Oxford University, where she is also friends with a kitchen boy named Roger.

When the book opens, Lord Asriel has returned from the North, where he has been conducting experiments involving something called Dust. What is Dust? Well, it's something very, very important in the book, and we later learn that the Church thinks Dust is, more or less, the equivalent of original sin. We also find out that Dust develops in children when they get older and their daemon stops shifting and takes on the form of a specific animal.

Back to the opening scene, Lyra figures out that Lord Asriel has been exploring the existence of different worlds – not heaven or hell, but worlds just like this one that exist in another dimensions. During this episode, Lyra also foils a plot by the Master of Jordan College to poison Lord Asriel, and her uncle returns to the North. In an overheard conversation between the Master and the Librarian, it also becomes clear that Lyra is destined to play a part in everything that's unfolding – but what kind of a part? We're still not sure.
Taken from https://www.shmoop.com/golden-compass/summary.html

[homoe]

When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will.


Sidebar:
If you've cared for or are caring for an aging parent, this will make you laugh and cry all at the same time.

[Fancy]

Bought a copy for a friend, and then decided to read it, too... Just starting, so no feedback, yet.

Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

[Kätzchen]

The Color of Water (James McBride).

[candy_coated_bitch]

The Everyday Witch by Deborah Blake.

[cinnamongrrl]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

The Color of Water (James McBride).

I read this a while back. I thought it was very good.