As you may have heard, I’ve been slumping pretty hard. Thank you so much for your comments and concern. I appreciate it more than you know.

Did I burn myself out by reading so much this year? Am a having a case of blog-fatigue? Has Netflix seduced me into too many manic viewing sessions? (Parks & Recreation, 30 Rock, New Girl)

I’m afraid that all of the above is true. I don’t know how the rest of 2013 will play out but I can feel the book love coming back. WHEW!!

Since my last wrap-up…

Reviews:

Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson

The Family by David Laskin

Read:

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss

Want Not by Jonathan Miles

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang

Currently Reading:

Upcoming:

No promises, no plans. That’s the way I envision the tail-end of 2013.

I hope you’ve had a great couple of weeks! See you again soon. I promise.

About David Laskin

With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author David Laskin brings to life the upheavals of the twentieth century through the story of one family, three continents, two world wars, and the rise and fall of nations.

A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations. But the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise.

The torrent of history took the scribe’s family down three very different roads. One branch immigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra Company; another went to Palestine as pioneers and participated in the contentious birth of the state of Israel; the third branch remained in Europe and suffered the onslaught of the Nazi occupation.
In tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. The Family is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history.