#6 My Happenstance volume gives the wife’s story first and then once you’ve read to halfway you flip it over to read the husband’s story. One of those was Happenstance, the story of a marriage told from two perspectives, the husband’s and the wife’s. In 2020 I did buddy reads of six Carol Shields novels with Marcie of Buried in Print. #5 The Furrows is longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. On his list of favourite books of 2022 was The Furrows by Namwali Serpell, which I currently have on the go as a buddy read with Laura T. #4 Similar to the Oprah effect, Obama publicly mentioning that he’s read and enjoyed a book is enough to make it a bestseller. #3 A recent and much-missed occupant of the White House: Barack Obama, whose Dreams from My Father didn’t quite stand up to a reread but is still a strong family memoir when it doesn’t go too deep into community organizing. #2 The 16th of June is, as James Joyce fans out there will know, “Bloomsday,” so I’ll move on to the only novel I’ve read so far by Amy Bloom (and one I felt ambivalent about, though I love her short stories and memoir), White Houses. A great Philadelphia-set novel I’ve read twice is The Sixteenth of Juneby Maya Lang. #1 Springsteen is one of my musical blind spots – I maybe know two songs by him? – but my husband has been working up a cover of his “Streets of Philadelphia” to perform at the next open mic night at our local arts venue. This time we begin with Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s memoir.
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