Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I truly enjoyed this book and was surprised by it.  It didn't follow any "formulas" as a rock and roll story.  Yes, there is sex, drugs and rock n roll, and some of the characters are stereotypical, but when you expect certain things to happen....they don't necessarily happen!  Which is refreshing.

The structure of the book is really interesting and it's not until the very end that you realize who the narrator is.  (Well, I didn't realize until the end...)

I can see this being a Netflix series and guess what! I think Amazon has picked it up and is producing. I will watch!

You can't help thinking Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac as you are reading, but apparently, the author does like the band but the book is not a fictionalized account of their time together.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Wonderful book!  Read for book club and then had the privelege of discussing with two young women from Ghana who are home health care aides for one of the book club members.  They even made and shared some authentic Ghanan food delicacies with us. A fantastic night.

"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"