NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #54 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
We made it to another weekend! At last! What's on your reading list right now? I'm jealous of everyone I see reading and finishing Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy, but if you're not quite ready to bite off such a huge commitment, here's some short, fun historical fiction:
1) Barry Unsworth's LAND OF MARVELS tells the story of a British archeologist in the last days of Mesopotamia: powells.com/book/-97803855…
2) Caleb Carr's THE ALIENIST is wild tale about murder and Teddy Roosevelt—it's fictional, but you'd never know that from reading it: northshire.com/book/978081297…
3) Try on almost anything by Alan Furst, who is a wonderfully evocative and mood-inducing writer, usually about espionage and the backdrop of World War II. Try THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: northshire.com/book/978081296…
4) Mayra Montero's DANCING TO ALMENDRA mixes a hippo, Cuban politics, and murder: powells.com/book/-97803124…
5) And Elizabeth Kostova's HISTORIAN mixes history and Dracula: bookshop.org/books/the-hist…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are you reading this weekend? I'm diving into—get it?!— Rachel Lance's (@UnderwaterLance) book about solving the mystery of the first Confederate submarine, IN THE WAVES. It's really fun! bookshop.org/books/in-the-w…
