I picked up this one from Book of the Month again, but it took months for me to get around to reading it. Once I did, it took me another few days to get into it. It’s not my normal style of book, and while I did look forward to understanding what it took for a black woman to exist in New York in the early 1900s, I struggled to get engaged. Spoilers ahead.
So this was actually the first book that I read following the holidays. I’ve had it for a while, again from Book of the Month, and one that I had gotten months ago, but didn’t read because I wanted to get through my traditional Christmas books. The synopsis reads like many other books that I’ve enjoyed, and I thought might give me different perspective, given the fact that the author and the main character are so different than me. Spoilers ahead!
Over the years, I have tried to move outside my comfort zone of chick lit and romantic comedy genres, venturing into fantasy, sci-fi, and thrillers. Most of the time I enjoy them, but there’s something special about going back to where you’ve been, revisiting the tropes that you know, but seeing the way that a different writer handles them. I picked this as my April … Continue reading People We Meet on Vacation
