Reading slumps are the worst!
Suddenly a cliffhanging plot, delightfully original character or cherished classic sounds alluring.
Well, I’ve got just the tonic for anyone who needs a recharge for their reading life.
If you’ve managed to get to this point in your life without reading anything by Anne Tyler, born in Minneapolis, fix that now!
Tyler writes family complication and the often awkward quest for human fulfillment like no one else.
Start with “Breathing Lessons,” published in 1988, then go forward and backward through Tyler’s entire canon.
My second novel to vanquish your reading blues is “Age of Vice” by Deepti Kapoor.
A blisteringly good, doorstop of a novel! I loved this book so much that I sent it to the new members of my Adventurous Reading Book Club.
Set in the early 2000s, a time of tumultuous social change in India, the story centers on a young journalist who is reporting on the rising tide of wealth and the corruption it creates, a fortunate son who is riding the crest of that tide and a young servant who will discover that everyone has his price.
Finally, I’ve discovered that a juicy assassins novel will pull me out of any slump I’ve tumbled into and the one I’m recommending is like none other!
Deanna Raybourn’s “Killers of a Certain Age,” introduces us to four over-the-hill operatives who reunite on a retirement cruise.
When it becomes clear that their former employers are trying to take them out at sea, the team embarks on a cross-country and international quest to discover who wants them dead.
— Kerri Miller | MPR News
