The lovely blog One Scheme of Happiness is having a really cool blog contest! She has lots of great prizes, including a lovely necklace from pookeh (Sandra at I May Be Knitting A Ranch House) and some Brooklyn Handspun yarn. To enter, you get to talk about your favorite books! Which, if you are anything like me, is a very exciting prospect. Go enter! I want some more summer reading suggestions myself, so I’m totally keeping my eye on this one.
What books did I suggest? Three recent reads which – now that I think about it – were all last-minute impulse check-outs at the library that totally delighted me. I seem to have good library instincts! Here they are:
Loving Frank by Nancy Moran – historical fiction about Frank Lloyd Wright. As I noted in my comment, I’m not a regular romance-y reader, but this book was so much more than that. Swedish feminism, architecture, Oak Park, travel…just read it.
The Sister: A Novel of Emily Dickinson by Paola Kaufmann – Ok, I love Emily Dickinson. Not just because she has my same name and ALSO I’m very aware of how trite it is to say that I love Emily Dickinson. Whatever. This book is also historical fiction, about Emily Dickinson’s sister. It is so compelling, and now I really want to find some violet pencils. Ahem.
Smart Girls Like Me by Diane Vadino – I guess this could sort of fall under historical fiction? Because it’s about a woman in New York right before the big Y2K crap? Ok, that’s a stretch. The girl in this book is really neurotic, but I loved her.
Good luck everyone!
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