an enthusiastic reader | Friday Reads August 28, 2020 @anenthusiasticreader | Uploaded August 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Friday Reads, 8/28/2020

Books
The Nature of the Beast, #11 in the Armand Gamache series, Louise Penny
Impersonation, Heidi Pitlor
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, Anne Glenconner
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell (five-star read)
Nothing But Dust, Sandrine Collette, translated by Alison Anderson (five-star read)

Reading Now
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore

Videos
FROM BOOKS TO ACTION: Get to Work Wednesdays
Hardcover Hearts: youtube.com/watch?v=zTCAjP8CaoE&t=110s
Seriela: youtube.com/watch?v=qIQFdAt6PMc
Bookish: youtube.com/watch?v=IGoklb7v7C4

I should have mentioned in the video that the memoir discussion I was referring to happened in the robust comment section of Bookish's video about memoir and its purpose. So many great ideas, pro and con, about memoir as a genre. Watch it at the link below.

youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1_njIdTPQ

Podcast Recommendation
Nice White Parents
nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html

A conversation between Julia Orringer and Adrian Tomine about navigating parenting and a creative life
lithub.com/julie-orringer-and-adrian-tomine-on-parenting-while-trying-to-make-a-living-as-a-creative

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