I’m joining up with Sheila at Book Journey and sharing along with other bloggers, the first book I’ll be reading to kick off the new year! To see her original post and see photos from last year’s First Books, click HERE. To see all the great books we are reading this year, click HERE.
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A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
Selected Stories
By: Lucia Berlin
Published: August 18, 2015
Publisher: Farrar, Staus, and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians.
What book will you be reading to kick off 2016? Feel free to share it below!
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I've heard good things about this one… hope you love it. Happy New Year!
I love that cover!
I just started George by Alex Gino this morning.
Wow, what an intriguing looking book! I'll be watching for your thoughts on this one.
Thanks for sharing, and here is my FIRST BOOK OF 2016 POST
I haven't heard of this one but it sounds interesting and the cover is eye catching. Hope you enjoy it!
Happy New Year! Hope you enjoy your first read of 2016.
I'm not familiar with this one, but it sounds interesting — hope you love it! (My husband is very excited about the Hawkeyes playing today too!)
This sounds like a fun and interesting book. I hope you have a Happy Reading 2016 Year. BTW, I'm from Iowa…GO HAWKS!!!
I haven't heard of this one but it sounds really good. It's nice to read a book just because you want to. Happy New Year!
New to me – hope you love it. Safe travels home!
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou. I never heard of this one but it certainly seems like an interesting one.
I like the sound of this book.
ENJOY, and Happy New Year and Happy Reading in 2016!!
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My First Book Of The Year
Different cover, simplistic but memorable, hopefully the book is the same. Enjoy
Happy new year Stacie. Love the sound of the book and will add it to my wish list, I love the exploration of the ordinary which isn't really ordinary. Hope you enjoy it.
I recently heard about this book too – yay for getting it on a good deal too!
I've recently been getting more in to short story collections so I may well have to pick this one up in the future. I hope you enjoy!
Reading With Jade
This sounds fabulous! I'm going to have to add it to my wishlist!
Go Hawks!! Yes, I am a huge Iowa Hawkeyes fan!! I graduated from the University of Iowa in 1996. 🙂 Lol, the irony is that I live in the SF Bay Area and am surrounded by Stanford fans!!
But back to reading!! I hope you have a fabulous year ahead in 2016. Enjoy reading your 1st book of the year.
Go Big Ten! My Buckeyes are playing right now 🙂
Love the title. Do cleaning women need a manual or is it a manual to clean women! LOL Happy New Year.
Happy new year Stacie! I've not come across this one before but it sounds like an interesting collection, enjoy.