There is no excuse for my minimal reading in the fall, especially when I was only working part-time. Starting in December 2017, I was adjusting to a long driving commute (3 hours daily) and crossed over to podcasts as my primary entertainment. I only read a handful of books this year.
Educated - Tara Westover. Borrowed over Christmas while my mom was reading it. This book is amazing. A young woman raised by a survivalist family in the Idaho mountains leaves as a teenager, against her family's wishes, and starts her education at BYU, then goes on to Cambridge (UK) and Harvard. I struggled a little with the domestic violence hitting to close to home because of my work. It's an incredibly well-written story about a life that is hard to imagine, yet she makes you picture each scene along with her. It avoids the stereotypes and willful ignorance of Hillbilly Elegy.
Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo. A LFL find and finally a break from all DV and death I've been picking up. It follows a Nigerian couple who met in college and struggle to raise children with inherited sickle-cell disease. It won a number of top book of the year awards in 2017 and is the author's first novel.
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller who Corrupted Adoption - Barbara Raymond. Also borrowed from my mom. True account of a woman who ran the Memphis-based Tennessee Children's Home Society for thirty years and removed infants and children from their unwitting parents and placed them with adoptive families across the United States
Educated - Tara Westover. Borrowed over Christmas while my mom was reading it. This book is amazing. A young woman raised by a survivalist family in the Idaho mountains leaves as a teenager, against her family's wishes, and starts her education at BYU, then goes on to Cambridge (UK) and Harvard. I struggled a little with the domestic violence hitting to close to home because of my work. It's an incredibly well-written story about a life that is hard to imagine, yet she makes you picture each scene along with her. It avoids the stereotypes and willful ignorance of Hillbilly Elegy.
Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo. A LFL find and finally a break from all DV and death I've been picking up. It follows a Nigerian couple who met in college and struggle to raise children with inherited sickle-cell disease. It won a number of top book of the year awards in 2017 and is the author's first novel.
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller who Corrupted Adoption - Barbara Raymond. Also borrowed from my mom. True account of a woman who ran the Memphis-based Tennessee Children's Home Society for thirty years and removed infants and children from their unwitting parents and placed them with adoptive families across the United States
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Wiegl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis - Arthur Allen. This was a great Christmas gift from my mom. It checks all the boxes - WWII, tells a story I would have never heard of before, and broaches a discussion on the ethics of working, for the Nazis, but to develop a vaccine for typhus.
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