I don’t normally participate in the wonderful meme, It’s Monday! What are you reading?, hosted by Sheila at Book Journey, but my 2015 is getting off to a slow start bookwise.
JUST FINISHED
The Communist Cookbook by Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury. Love the cover, love the title, but the book just did not live up to my expectation. In fact, I felt so blah about it, that I’m not even going to review it. Was it me? Was it the book? Who knows. It just didn’t work.
ABOUT TO START
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels. This book has received a lot of acclaim in Canada, where it surprised everyone by winning the Giller Prize this year. I’m reading it as part of Jazz Age January hosted by Leah at Books Speak Volumes and to catch up with the brilliant CanLit podcast, Write Reads.
52 books or bust 
Wow, I love the cover of Us Conductors and it sounds like a great read! I hope it helps pick things up for you 🙂
The Communist Cookbook does have an intriguing title. Too bad the contents didn’t work for you. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
I just finished Us Conductors, and if you like it as much as I did, then your slow start to 2015 will be over! I’m looking forward to the podcast!
Ooh, I haven’t heard of Us Conductors. Off to look it up!
I suspect that very soon I will be raving about it.
I just finished an amazing novel by a Canadian writer, Miriam Toews. Even though the subject matter is suicide and mental illness, the tone and humor in “All My Puny Sorrows” was spot on.
Toews is pretty brilliant. I haven’t read All My Puny Sorrows, but in her other books she manages to take rather dark topics and make a novel that isn’t all doom and gloom.
Us Conductors looks interesting and then I found out that some of it was set during the Bolshevik Revolution and I’m sold.
Everything about it seems interesting to me.
Both Kirt and I liked Us Conductors quite a lot, so hopefully these communists will suit you better that the ones in the Cookbook :). -Tania
I’ve been meaning to read Us Conductors ever since it won the Giller Prize and I’m ashamed to say I still haven’t read it yet, despite meeting Sean Michaels at Inspire last year! I can’t wait to hear what you think of it. I hope you love it 🙂