Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/19/26 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now
I'm listening to the first in Philippa Gregory's Plantaganet and Tudor series, Royal Witch; I'm listening to Beth Lewis's Gold Rush-era mystery, The Rush; and I'm reading Ben Lerner's short novel Transcription.
What are you reading, bookworms?
01 Royal Witch (Plantaganet and Tudor #1) by Philippa Gregory
It's 1420 and Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V hoping to marry well despite her common upbringing and lack of dowry.
But she soon learns she has a knack for the ins and outs of court intrigue, understanding the layers of betrayals, motivations, and powerful moves.
Working in a countess's household, she learns how to bend men to a woman's will, how to manage men's outsized egos, and how to wield power without seeming to pull the strings.
She rises through the ranks, grasping for more control--until she is accused of treason, witchcraft, and summoning the devil in order to kill a king.
Philippa Gregory is the author of forty novels, including more than thirty historical fiction works.
02 The Rush by Beth Lewis
It's 1898 and in Canada, the frenzy of the Gold Rush has taken hold of the frigid Yukon. Three women in Dawson City are trying to find their way.
Kate is a journalist who has hurried hundreds of miles to town after an urgent letter from her sister. Martha's hotel is under threat from a local bully buying up all the property he can. And Ellen and her husband risked everything for the hope of gold--but any potential fortune is slipping through their fingers.
When a young woman is found murdered, the lives of these three characters become intertwined, and finding the culprit will mean tangling with rough, greedy, determined men set on the wealth promised in the local waters.
You might also like these other Bossy reads about the Gold Rush.
03 Transcription by Ben Lerner
The narrator of Ben Lerner's short (144-page) novel has traveled to interview his 90-year-old mentor Thomas (who is also his best friend Max's father) and write what will be the art giant's final published interview.
But when the narrator drops his phone in the hotel sink, he arrives at the interview without a way to record it--and is inexplicably unable or unwilling to reveal this fact.
In Transcription, Lerner offers a novel in three parts, including the strange set of events that follow the smartphone fiasco--shaped by explorations of fathers and sons, of technology and memory, and of Covid-set difficulties.
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