Have Time For a Book? (Yes, We Know You Do) Here Are Some Suggestions
The editorial board of the Connecticut Law Tribune offers up a list of selected book titles to help you get through COVID-19 isolation and down time.
May 07, 2020 at 04:19 PM
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How it All Began by Penelope; The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng; The Body by Bill Bryson; and The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein.
So there you are at home, surrounded by chores that you could be doing and work you could be doing remotely. But, of course, there is something else you can do. You can find a little time to read an interesting book, and your Editorial Board is prepared to help you out. Here, in no particular order, are a few suggestions from us as to books that are worth your time:
How it All Began by Penelope Lively: A mischievous novel about linked random events and crossed paths. Lively is a marvelous story-teller.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens: A New York Times bestseller set in North Carolina swamps with wonderfully written characters and plot; an exquisite ode to the natural world.
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser: A timely classic.
The Better Angels by Bette Bono: A time-travel adventure with a female senior citizen protagonist to travels back in time on a mission to 19th century New York in an effort to locate a photographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln missing from Matthew Brady's Civil War studio.
The Body by Bill Bryson: Nonfiction as fascinating as fiction.
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng: A young British citizen lives on the Malaysian island of Penang in 1939 and develops a friendship with a foreign diplomat from Japan through the art of aikido. The war changes life on the island during the Japanese occupation, there is an act of betrayal, and Philip must work to save his family and the island.
Beatrix Potter—A Life in Nature by Linda Lear: A great biography of Beatrix Potter as a naturalist. How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher: funny, beautiful, inspiring memoir focusing on food in wartime. A hopeful book for these times.
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein: The federal government's involvement in housing segregation.
Exhalation by Ted Chaing: Short stories; science fiction.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles: A Russian count is confined to the Metropol Hotel where he develops a world of friends and experiences, surrounded by the change from Tsarist to Bolshevik Russia – in elegant prose.
And The Bee Keeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Ehrdrich
American Gods and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache Series: (Bury your Dead is especially suggested).
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