I have some new books I’m excited about and wanted to share those titles with you.
Code Girls by Liza Mundy. The award-winning national bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II. I know a lot of you have read and raved about this one so I look forward to this book on such an important role in history which was never mentioned in any of my high school or college history book.
Death of a Rainmaker by Laurie Loewenstein. This new mystery series is set in Vermillion, Okla., in 1935. The main characters will be dealing with a murder during the devastating period of the Dust Bowl.
Vancouver Noir edited by Sam Wiebe. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies. I’ve enjoyed several of these anthologies and having traveled to Vancouver a couple of years ago, I’m really excited to read about a place I would love to visit again. For now I guess it will just be via my armchair travel with this book.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and more book talk soon!
I found Code Girls fascinating on so many levels! I hope you enjoy it, Iliana. Death of a Rainmaker also sounds interesting.
Code Girls sounds like a great read and one that might be good for a book club discussion.
I’m slowly catching up on my blog-hopping. I feel like I’ve been away from it for too long! And I was so close to so many of my favorite Texas bloggers last week, but we never made it out of the Hill Country. We will definitely have to plan some sort of a get together next time we’re in Texas. I would have loved to have seen you, Andi, Trish, Deb and Kay!
Code Girls is a really great book. If the topic is of particular interest to you, you might be interested in knowing that the author spoke at the National Archives as part of their lunchtime author program of authors (I think mostly if not all people who used the archives heavily in their research). All those talks are on YouTube. Here’s the link to her talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29a5UHVuf4U
I’ve heard some really good things about DEATH OF A RAINMAKER. I’ve ordered it and it should show up before long. My grandparents on both sides lived in the Texas Panhandle (well, my parents did too) during the Dust Bowl period and my mother’s parents were from Oklahoma.
Code Girls is a book I have been wanting to read. Death of a Rainmaker is new to me, but sounds really good as well. I hope you enjoy all of these!
Jen Mullen – I’m really looking forward to Code Girls. It’s about time the women who did so much got some credit for their hard work right?
Les in OR – Your travels sound amazing and yes, next time you are down in this area we must get together. That would be so amazing!
Bridget Ryan – Thank you so much for the link. I can’t wait to check out the discussion. I plan to start this book next month for nonfiction November so it’s going to be great to have that as backup!
Kay – I’m really interested in this book too and hope it doesn’t disappoint. Did your parents tell you much about their families and how they lived during that difficult time?
Literary Feline – Both sound really good don’t they? I can’t wait to check them out and really hope they don’t disappoint!
I am excited for you about Code Girls! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did 🙂