Seven Books For The Long Weekend.
By Erica and Karen
It is a long holiday weekend. Maybe you are sitting by a pool, or on a deck, or in a park, soaking up the last rays of summer? The perfect time to read. Here are a few books we think would grab your interest:
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Trust, by Hernan Diaz. A fascinating portrait, from several perspectives, of a financier and his family. Fiction, drawing from many learned, and real, sources. Beautifully written.
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The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow, by Walter Mosley. Socrates is a cool fellow with many questions about life, love and the pursuit of everything. Walter Mosley’s books, including this, are favorites.
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The Christie Affair, by Nina de Gramont. Agatha Christie really did disappear for several days, and never said where she went. This novel investigates one possibility. A beguiling story.
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Einstein’s War, by Matthew Stanley. Einstein was developing his relativity theory as WWI was brewing. The intertwined stories of the scientific front lines, nationalism in Germany, and Einstein’s remarkable love life are told in lively prose, and as a bonus you will come away understanding relativity.
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Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power Corruption and Vengeance In Today’s China, by Desmond Shum. A riveting memoir describing the rise and fall of two elite Chinese insiders.
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, by David Quammen. We all know genes can be transferred vertically, to offspring. But it turns out they can be transferred horizontally, too. What does that mean, fundamentally, for who and what we are—or could be? This well-written book will surely intrigue you.
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Fearless: Harriet Quimby A Life Without Limit, by Don Dahler. Who is Harriet Quimby? She is the holder of American pilot license number 37. And so much more. A captivating read.
Do tell us what you are reading.
If ever there was a book whose late August arrival was hotly anticipated, the September issue of Seventeen magazine was it for so many of us back in the 1960s.
A doorstop that weighed as much as a Thanksgiving turkey, Seventeen’s fall issue was a feast of fashion and makeup ads that helped shape the style of a generation long after we’d outgrown teen crushes and teen clothes.
The best part of a late summer afternoon was lazily paging through the magazine, figuring out how a summer’s worth of ‘mother’s helper’ wages would finance all those super outfits.
My first lesson in money management.
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez for historical fiction of love and longing, deceit, and abuse of women and power in the Jim Crowe south of 1973. Fabulous book!
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt for a phantastic story of a savvy octopus who helps solve the mystery of a disappeared son and helps create a new family out of relative strangers.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid for a juicy story of a Hollywood bombshell’s ruthless rise to fame and the intrigue of why she picks an unknown journalist out of nowhere to write her life story
Disappointed that you have only one female writer. It’s been revealed that more than half of books and best sellers are written by women and yet 72% of reviews like this one are male writers. Women in your demographic are writing. Is there a reason you focused on men?
Gosh. Unintended. What would you recommend by the women writers you mention?