A Couple of Great Reads

Wow, I have just been totally off the grid, haven't I? I have been reading, I guess just nothing I felt worth posting about until now.

Last week my husband and I went on vacation to Key West (if you haven't been, GO - it is awesome). So I read two books last week and I loved both of them. The first was The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin. It's a fictionalized account of the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and it was just fascinating. Benjamin obviously did tons of research and she made me feel like she was telling the true story of the Lindberghs. All the characters are very well developed and the ending was quite a shocker. I highly recommend it.

The second novel I read was Longbourn by Jo Baker. A must-read for all you Jane Austen fans, it covers the period of time in Pride and Prejudice from the servants' point of view... sort of Downton Abbey-like. Baker develops the characters of all the named servants in Pride and Prejudice, as well as some who aren't named, and gives them interesting personalities and backstories. I literally could not put this book down. I just adored it. I especially liked the interactions between the characters of P&P and the characters of Longbourn, because we are shown a rather different side to the characters we love so much.

The Aviator's Wife

Longbourn