What Fiction are you reading this week, June 30, 2019?

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10. Kim Michele Richardson's excellent new book, The Book Woman

of Troublesome Creek. Here's a brief description cribbed from amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Woman-Troublesome-Creek-Novel-ebook/dp/B07LGD67ZZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ACLM60I1SVUU&keywords=the+book+woman+of+troublesome+creek+by+kim+michele+richardson&qid=1561979972&s=books&sprefix=book+wom%2Caps%2C222&sr=1-1

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything―everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.

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Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere―even back home.

It has been a long, hot, difficult summer with little time for reading. We are barely into the season and are drowning in blackberries, peaches, and too many cats/kittens to get into rescue.

Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. I love the pic in your OP. I'm also happy to read you are enjoying David Sedaris as much as I do. His writing is wonderful, but listening to him read his own work is a real joy. I wish he still frequented NPR.

Happy early 4th of July to all the DU readers.