You’ll quickly learn that my inability to focus on one thing at a time leaks over into my reading habits.  I’m never into only one book.  I usually have 2-3 going at the same time.  Right now, my book club is reading Anne Patchett’s The Dutch House.  I read it a while ago and I do recommend it.  It’s a generational tale the centers on two siblings and their inability to leave the past behind.

On audio, I just started American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.  This timely novel is about the journey of a Mexican mom and her son fleeing to this country.  The novel has met with lots of criticism as readers find flaws in the depiction of the main character.  You can check out this NPR interview with Cummins for more information.

Finally, in hardback, I’m reading The Topeka School by poet, Ben Lerner.  The family at the center of the story all have attachment to this unique school – the son as a student and champion debater, the father and the mother as psychologists working with the students.  I’m told this novel is somewhat biographical as Lerner’s parents were both psychologists and lived in Topeka and Lerner, himself, was a debater.

Here are some (there are so many!) of my all-time favorites:

• Language of Flowers
• The Tea Lady of Hummingbird Lane
• Where the Crawdads Sing
• A Little Life
• The Yellow House

What are you reading?  Have you read any of these?  Share your thoughts with us here.