What Fiction are you reading this week, April 24, 2022?

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Reading Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, a "wise, tender, and deeply funny novel that combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully." That sums it up nicely. The author was born in Ukraine and her family moved to England shortly after. What's happening over there now, in Ua, makes this story particularly poignant.

My "couch" book right now is The Answer Is...: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek. I just started this yesterday and learned his father was a chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as a child. Not fiction but I thought I would mention it for the coincidence.

Listening to Death of a Ghost by M. C. Beaton. Hamish and another police officer will spend the night in a ruined castle to get to the bottom of rumors of ghostly sounds and lights. When they find a dead body in the cellar, it's clear something strange--and deadly--is going on. This is the last Hamish Macbeth audio book available at my library so now I have to find something amusing to fill that void.

What books will you be ending April with?