What I'm reading Wednesday...

 

Twenty-fifth challenge finish of the year.

This is my second reading of this book.  In 2017, I rated it 10/10, and wrote this:  A septuagenarian woman approaches a neighbor, the widower of a former acquaintance, with a proposal.  She wonders if he might sleep with her...just to hear someone breathing in the bed next to her at night, to talk to in the dark.  It was such a sweet story, and the Netflix Original movie version with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda was wonderful as well.

I loved it just as much this time.

Twenty-sixth challenge finish of the year.

Found this one on the Goodreads 52 Book Club 2026 Challenge Community.  The complete title/subtitle is 'Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic.'  Ada was an indigenous woman hired by the expedition because she could speak and write English and was a skilled seamstress.  Having a sick child to support, and an absent husband, she went along.  Other indigenous people who had signed on, backed out before the outset, so Ada was the lone woman with the group made up of men.

And with this one behind me, I am half-way through the challenge.