The Books I'm Reading Now
I'm reading evangelical preacher Beth Moore's memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life; I'm listening to Melissa Caruso's time-travel fantasy adventure--the first in a duology--The Last Hour Between Worlds; and I'm listening to Yael van der Wouden's debut novel, which is set in a rural Dutch province in 1961, The Safekeep.
What are you reading, bookworms?
01 All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
Beth Moore grew up the fourth of five children, a Southern Baptist who later authored books about faith and Christianity.
But her memoir details childhood abuse, her mother's deteriorating mental health, the development of her faith and beliefs, and her split with the Southern Baptist Church amid disagreement about women preaching.
She is an evangelical preacher who founded Living Proof Ministries in Houston, Texas.
For many more Bossy reviews of memoirs, please check out the books and lists at this link. For Bossy takes on books about faith, please check out these books.
02 The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso
Kembral Thorne, expert investigator, is bleary-eyed from single-parenting her newborn, and she's questioning why she agreed to come to a work New Year's Eve party in the first place.
But when people start dropping dead around her, she realizes that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes in which strange events loosely repeat themselves--but seem to be building in intensity. In fact, the whole world seems to be in horrifying danger.
It looks like Kembral will have to work tonight after all--and cooperate with her nemesis Rika Nonesuch, the cat burglar, in order to try to save the world.
I love Caruso's writing style, her character-building, and the way the characters relate to each other. I predict that I'll be reading all of her other books as well.
This is the first of two books in Caruso's Echo Archives duology. The second book is The Last Soul Among Wolves. She is also the author of the Rooks and Ruin and Swords and Fire series.
I'm listening to The Last Hour Between Worlds as an audiobook.
For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time, you can check out the books and lists at this link.
03 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
It's the summer of 1961 in the rural Dutch province of Overijssel, and rigid Isabel is a spinster living in self-prescribed rigidity and adhering to strict schedules in her late mother's home--at the whim of her brothers, who rightfully own the house.
When her playboy brother Louis drops his gauche girlfriend Eva to stay--for months! in their mother's old room!--Isabel is more than a little annoyed.
Isabel, already paranoid that her meek weekly maid is stealing from her, becomes obsessed with the small items that begin to disappear after Eva's arrival...then she becomes obsessed with wild Eva herself.
I'm listening to The Safekeep, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, as an audiobook. This is Yael van der Wouden's first book.
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