EBBy now, many of you have probably heard about Book Club Girl’s Ebook Bonanza—12 great low-priced ebooks! All are recommended for book clubs, and all have free podcasts featuring interviews with the author. While any of these books would be a great choice, I thought I’d do a little write-up of the ones I’ve read and loved. Make them the winners!
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
This book, about an American couple attempting to overcome the grief over the death of their child in India, blew me away. Thrity did an amazing job of exploring how two people living in the same house and experiencing the same thing can be so incredibly far apart. If you’re up for a good, cathartic, sobbing cry, this is the book.
Download my interview with Thrity on Book Club Girl on Air here.
Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe
This is the story of a family whose matriarch decides to remarry in her 70s. Chaos—mostly of the emotional variety—ensues. I fell in love with the characters in this book, and if you love stories about families coping with everyday issues of love, marriage, kids, illness, and everything in between, this is the book to read.
Download my interview with Emily on Book Club Girl on Air
In a Perfect World by Laura Kasischke
If you had told me I would read and love a book about a) a stewardess who marries her captain and then has to be a stepmom to his three kids and b) a book about a virus that decimates America, I would have told you that you were nuts. Neither of those topics are my cup of tea, and yet here they’re married so wonderfully, and written about so beautifully, that I couldn’t resist. Laura Kasischke is a poet, and it shows.
Download an interview (not done by me) with Laura on Book Club Girl on Air
The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle
I have made no secret of my love for this book (about a woman coping with the end of her marriage with the help of her family and her animal family) and for Katrina. In fact, just the other day, Katrina’s publicist and I were out to lunch with an ad rep from a magazine, and the subject of authors we love as people came up. We immediately started talking about Katrina, even though her book came out more than a year ago. Seriously, though, if you love animals you should absolutely read this.
Download my interview with Katrina on Book Club Girl on Air
Well, have I convinced you to check any of these out? Are there any other ones on the list that you want to convince me to check out?
