Thanks Tracy, appreciate the bday wishes. And Happy Bday to your husband and I hope you make a post on your day. I’ve been on travels lately so I’m responding late and haven’t been able to visit blogs while away. Still I look forward to seeing your posts when I get back.
Interesting to hear your thoughts on the Award lists. I’m not sure what you will think of Audition. It’s a bit mysterious and different. Like a jigsaw puzzle. I have not read Karen Russell yet … but she seems different too. So maybe they are picking obscure or unique stories.
The Correspondent is a fairly quick novel …. that seems to go by quickly with all the letters. I was surprised by how much the protagonist Sybil has on her mind or shoulders at the time. Much to think about! Hope you have a great week.

Hi Lux, yeah the color changes are so neat to see. But it is cool you are getting flowers blooming. It’s a silver lining perhaps, lol. Enjoy yours ! Have a great week.

Thanks Joy. It is a good read-together book. We were emailing about a book full of letter writing. Ironic, right? Ha. Cheers.

That’s so nice of you to say Haze. Thx so much! Sept. 20 was the big day, ha. So old. I have been traveling so sorry for the delay in replying. I hope the best is yet to come! Cheers.

I am so irritated with myself to being so late to see this post. I was interested to see that the Booker short list had come out (another thing I missed this week). Glen had sent me the list but I did not see it. I am happy to see the books by Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are on there, even though I haven’t read anything by either of them. I did get a copy of Audition. I will read more about the others.

On the list of nominees for the National Book Award, I am only familiar with the Susan Choi book. I was interested to see the book by Karen Russell there, because her short stories were compared to Kelly Link’s stories in a book of short stories I just read and reviewed. She is new to me but I am interested in learning more about her.

Thanks for the review of The Correspondent, although I only skimmed it to see if you mostly liked it. Tonight I got an inexpensive kindle edition since the hardcover is so expensive at this time.

Thanks Wendy, just got to the East Coast and it’s going well. I’m glad you mentioned the novel A Burning since I had read that as well and thought the author showed great promise so that is why I’d like to read A Guardian and a Thief (even though it’s dystopian and I’ve read too many of those it seems). I will look to see what you think of Raja the Gullible. And the Jane Austen one, which I don’t know too much about. Keep up the reading! It’s a juggle with all these books. Cheers.

Thanks Lesley, I had a long travel day yesterday but it went well and now I’m on the East Coast. It’s sort of a fun change. I have been to Virginia Beach before but not in many years. I’ll be taking the train to Richmond today!
See what you think of The Correspondent. It’s a quick read. It’s good to go into it not knowing too much.
I like the saying you’re only as old as you feel. Let’s go with that. I can’t believe I hit the 6-0. I was the youngest in my family. Have a great week.