What I'm reading Wednesday...

Thirty-third challenge finish of the year.

So excited to get this one read, because it has been on my Kindle since 2011!  There's lots of new books that I want to read this year, but when I don't have something in mind, I look at books I already own to see if any fit the challenge prompts.  I go to my Kindle's content library/books/sort:acquired oldest to newest.  It's more fun to read a long-owned yet never-read book if I can make it fit into a challenge prompt category.

This one was okay.  It was originally published in 1920, and was about the life of the aristocratic families of New York's Gilded Age.  None of the characters really made me care about them.  But it was well written, and in 1921 the author became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for this work.

Thirty-fourth challenge finish of the year.

So good!  It is the first new release (April 2026) that has kept me this entertained, guessing, and surprised since I read Gone Girl when it first came out fourteen years ago!  The minute I finished it, I called Kasey and told her I had a book she HAS to read.  She asked which book, and when I told her, she said she had just finished it on Friday.  She really liked it as well.

This one is about a wife and mother who becomes a viral social-media influencer.  It is so imaginative and well written, and has an element of time travel?!  

A word of warning:  there is a lot of talk about faith.  This is NOT Christian fiction.  It is more a satire of current events surrounding social-media-content creators and Christian nationalism.  I wouldn't be surprised if some people do not grasp that aspect of it.