Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/25 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now

I'm reading Jennifer Weiner's upcoming novel, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits; I'm listening to Miranda July's All Fours; and I'm reading Christina Lynch's bighearted mystery Pony Confidential.

What are you reading, bookworms?

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01 The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner

Cassie and Zoe Greenberg are sisters who have always been opposites. Cassie, a musical prodigy, avoided the limelight, while Zoe dreamed of stardom since she was a child.

For one mindboggling year when they're young adults, the sisters reach the heights of fame as the pop duo The Griffin Sisters--featured in Rolling Stone, performing on Saturday Night Live, and with their videos on MTV. Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery.

Twenty years later, Zoe is a housewife and Cassie is a recluse. But when Zoe's headstrong daughter Cherry determines to become a star, she digs into the reasons for the sisters' falling out and the band's breakup.

I received a prepublication edition of this title, to be published April 8, courtesy of William Morrow and NetGalley. Weiner is also the author of the novels Good in Bed, That Summer, Good Summer, The Summer Place, and more.

If you like to read fiction about music, you might also like the titles I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

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02 All Fours by Miranda July

Miranda July offers an unexpected midlife journey, in which a semi-famous creative type (her medium and work is unspecified) sets out on a road trip from LA to New York to meet with friends and find inspiration--but impulsively exits the freeway thirty minutes from home and checks into a motel instead.

She leads her (steady, unthrilling) husband and her child Sam to believe that she is following her carefully planned route and then that she is immersing herself in New York. But she is redecorating the nearby motel room (using the $20,000 windfall she was to spend on her NYC trip), wandering the nondescript town, and developing an all-consuming obsession with a younger man who works at Hertz.

I'm listening to All Fours as an audiobook.

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03 Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

In alternating points of view, Christina Lynch offers a playful story of Penny, an elementary schoolteacher accused of a murder she didn't commit, and the grumpy pony she used to love, who resents his own abandonment but knows that the girl he once adored is an innocent woman.

Industrious, observant, headstrong Pony finds his hard feelings fading as he develops an elaborate plan to find Penny and save her from her unwarranted imprisonment.

So far this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--mystery that seems sure to be headed toward a heartwarming ending for both Penny and Pony.