Book Love

Since 2019, I’ve been trying to read more—for fun.

For so long, it was mainly non-fiction.

One recommendation there: In The Pines, by Grace Elizabeth Hale — this books tells the history of rural Mississippi, with a focus on the untold Black history and the impact of lynchings on Black Mississippians and subsequent generations of a white family who learned of a patriarch’s involvement. Heart wrenching and a worthy read.

Then, it transitioned to historical fiction. Here, The Personal Librarian and Let Us Descend still have me thinking about them. Must reads.

Finally, non-fiction in a very specific genre: cozy murder mystery. If you need recommendations, here are a few:

📚 Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

📚 Marlow Murder Club and Death Comes to Marlow, by Robert Thorogood

And especially for my law friends:

📚📚 Secret Lives and Dangerous Women by Mark de Castrique—the latter I devoured in about 48 hours, which is very, very fast for me.

I’m slowly but surely breaking up with doom scrolling (again and again) and I’m grateful these books, and others, have helped me there.

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