What I'm reading
All 2019 and past years here...
July
American Dirt Jeanine Cummins
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A Month in the Country J.L. Carr
Venice Jan Morris
The White Road Edmund de Waal
August
Fleishman Is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Kindred Octavia Butler
Another Fine Mess Tim Moore
Three Women Lisa Taddeo
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes
September
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
September 2019
Tomorrow is the first Tuesday after Labor Day in the USA - the day I traditionally went back to school as a child. On Labor Day itself, I would lay out the outfit I planned to wear the next day. After that day I wouldn't really care what I wore, but that first outfit was important.
This week my new novel A Single Thread is published in the UK. (It comes out in the USA on September 17th, and in European countries in the Winter and Spring of 2020.) There is a launch party Thursday, and I've been looking for a 1930s-style tea dress, to reflect what the heroine Violet Speedwell might wear. I think I've found it, and I've laid it out:
Superficial? Maybe. But it's a big week, and instead of freaking out over upcoming interviews on tv and radio, or the launch event in the nave of Winchester Cathedral (where the book is set), it calms me to focus instead on minor details: the dress I'll wear, the necklace, the manicure...Long live books!
