August is reading month and if you’re looking for something to take to the beach or enjoy at the cabin, consider these current titles the team at Swenson Book Development LLC is reading now.
Samantha Kolb:
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Alanna Rieser:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
ISIS: A History by Fawaz Gerges
Jenna Goodman:
The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone
Second Life: A Novel by S J Watson
Sharon Yntema:
Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
How to Make White People Laugh by Negin Farsad
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Susan Tripp:
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Esther the Wonder Pig by Steve Jenkins, Derek Walter and Caprice Crane
Jill Swenson:
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
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Writing and Listening — an Interview with Brooke Randel
As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant memories: baking crescent roll cookies, playing gin rummy, and watching Baywatch. Until an unexpected phone call when Golda said, out of the blue: “You should write about my life. What happened in the war.” What results is a fascinating memoir—about one woman’s harrowing survival, and another’s struggle to excavate theRead more…