January 2020 Round Up and Favorites
January was a good reading month for me. I only got through 12 books, but I have also been trudging my way through David Copperfield, and am finally about half through. I am not loving it, but for some sentimental reason I am determined to finish, I keep thinking he needed a strong editor who could have cut half the book - blasphemy I know. My favorites this month: I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell - This is a book about her 17 brushes with death. O'Farrell has had a tremulousness life, and she lays it all bare in this book. Her prose are beautiful. She might be my favorite new (to me) author, after really enjoying The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox last year, I am excited to read more from her this year, and let her language and cadence wash over me. Jacquline Woodson's Red at the Bone is a close second favorite of January. Like O'Farrell Woodson's writing is something that I just love to sink into and devour. Red is a book centered around a fami