snapshot 7.30

just finished: Amy Engel’s I Did it for You. Wow, what a story! Greer returns to her small hometown in Kansas to try to find answers. When she was a teenager, her older sister had been shot when she’d been out with her boyfriend. The shooter was convicted and put to death, but now there’s been a similar shooting, and Greer is pulled back to Ludlow to try to figure out what’s going on. This book took me on an amazing journey, and I can’t wait to share more about it tomorrow.

currently reading: new Donna Andrews! I am excited! Out this Tuesday is her latest, Birder, She Wrote, and it’s all about her crazy family again, which I love. One of the newer residents in Caerphilly, a man known for complaining about everything has been killed in a remote part of the county. He was found close to Clay County, which Meg and the local police know well for their questionable behavior. So it’s possible he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or it’s possible his complaining ended badly for him. Watch for this one later this week!

up next: August reading is going to be amazing. There is a new Lisa Jewell! A new Megan Goldin! A new Mhairi McFarlane! And a new one by Julia Cameron that’s more of a memoir. But don’t worry. If you’re jonesing for a new writer book from Cameron, you only have to wait until January, when Living the Artist’s Way is released.

And I bought myself a few new cookbooks. Not new releases, just new to me, but something to watch for next spring—Alain Ducasse, the French master chef who made a brief appearance on the last season of Top Chef—does have a new book coming out. Good Taste: A Life of Food and Passion is scheduled to be released in April.