Happy Thanksgiving! Have you started cooking yet? We’re having a small gathering here, but doing it all big time – turkey, sides, desserts, rolls, all of it! Don’t forget to favorite our Thanksgiving playlist on Spotify – it’s great for background music for your gathering! By the way, my work family and I are debating….cranberry sauce: whole berry, jellied, or ewww get it off the table? Share your choice in the comments!
Here’s the books I’m looking forward to discussing with you this week. Grab your copies of these books by clicking the images below:
RWL Reading Challenge – Week 48: Thanksgiving
Apples Should be Red
by Penny Watson
Posting on Monday, November 25th
If you’re looking for a cute and quick romcom holiday read, this is it. With main characters who are a little more advanced in age than your typical romcom, this is a quirky redemption and family drama book that might just make you feel like your family is a bit more normal than usual.
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
- General Fiction: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Louisa May Alcott
- Romance: Thanksgiving, Janet Evanovich
- Thriller: The Vacation, MM Chounard
- Nonfiction: Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
- Kids: Thanksgiving on Thursday, Mary Pope Osborne & Sal Murdocca
November Recap
Posting on Wednesday, November 27th
We will be walking back through the books we read this month and giving you a preview of December!
US States Challenge – Week 48: West Virginia
Storming Heaven
by Denise Giardina
Posting on Thursday, November 28th
This one reminds me of some of the books we’ve read for Labor Day. Set in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, this story focus on the coal miners and their efforts to Unionize in the early 20th century.
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
- General Fiction: Missing May, Cynthia Rylant
- Romance: Falling For Love, Addison M Conley
- Thriller: A Cold Dark Place, Toni Anderson
- Nonfiction: The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
- Kids: Shiloh, Phyllis Reynold Naylor
Rotating Posts – Week 48: TBR
The Achilles Trap
by Steve Coll
Posting on Saturday, November 30th
This has been on my TBR shelf since I heard the author speak at the Atlanta History Center earlier this year. Growing up in the era of the first and second Gulf Wars, I thought I understood the motivations behind the war, but this book shines an entirely new light on Saddam Hussein and the role America played in setting the stage for decades of skirmishes in the region.
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What I’m Reading
- Current print book: An Island of Suspects, Jean-Luc Bannalec
- Current audio book: Wicked, Gregory Maguire
- Book I’m most looking forward to: The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson
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