November 2022 Reads

Seven books down, sixteen to go in order to make my 2022 goal. Yikes. Things are lookin' rooough.

I was a big fan of the bulk of the books I read this month!

Let's get into it...

First off, thank you to my cousin Tric for giving me a signed copy of this book!

I've adored Abby Wambach for ages. Aside from her talent on the field, she's an honest and open person and I so enjoy her presence on the 'We Can Do Hard Things' podcast. On the podcast and in this book, Abby is open and raw. She recounts her years in soccer, her battle with addiction, and her way out in this book. She's such a badass. I highly recommend checking out this and the WCDHT podcast.

Loved Carrie Soto! But, then again, I'm hard pressed to find a TJR book that I don't like (I *still* have to read Malibu Rising). The book opens with Carrie, a retired tennis legend, at a Grand Slam tennis final watching a player come dangerously close to her record of Grand Slam wins. In this scene, Carrie decides to mount a comeback and secure the title as her own.

You'll follow Carrie as she trains and mounts her comeback, the story peppered with her back story, her pivotal relationship with her father, and her hitting partner...and possible romantic interest.

Another love of November. Kitchen Yarns was a gift from my friend Amanda for my birthday last year and I'm mad at myself for taking almost a year to read it. This book of food essays (including recipes) is like a big old hug. It's so warm, comforting, and moving.

I've already made three of the recipes included in the book!

After loving KY so much, I wanted to read more of Ann Hood's books and picked up The Obituary Writer. The book follows Claire, an unfulfilled wife in the early 1960s and Vivian - an obituary writer in the 1920s who lost the great love of her life in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and uses her skill of obituary writing to bring others (and herself) comfort during their greatest losses.

I found myself thinking so much about Claire and how a woman unhappily married in 1960 is just so STUCK. The themes of the book are love, loss, regret, grief, and loss.

Mother Noise is a collection of essays where the author recounts their long battle with addiction (heroin), their career in comedy, motherhood, and an (unlikely) personal champion - none other than David Sedaris.

Mother Noise was open, honest, and (ironically) addictive.

So, two of my friends *loved* The No-Show. Honestly, I would have DNF'd it if not for them telling me to keep going. They were right, it did end up getting better BUT in my opinion, 80% of it was annoying and the last 20% doesn't make up for that for me.

Ah, in the effort to reach my 2022 book goal I decided to listen to some Audible originals.

meh.

Talking about this is not worth the effort.

xoxo

iamfunchris