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1. What are you currently reading? Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica. We meet two couples: Nina and Jake, Lily and Christian. Nina and Lily are the friends here – teachers at the same high school – though Jake and Christian get along well enough. Both marriages are under stress right now. Nina is worried and distracted as her mother battles cancer; Lily is both thrilled and afraid to find herself pregnant again after miscarrying.
Then Jake goes missing. He and Nina had a big fight and he stormed out. At first she thought he'd checked into a hotel and was enjoying room service, but then why isn't he answering her at first apologetic but increasingly panicked texts? Lily, already more than a little high strung as she deals with her high risk pregnancy, tells Christian she happened to see Jake somewhere he's not expected to be, doing something he's not expected to be doing. Lily's sure she's the last one to have seen him alive. Is she?
There's a pervasive sense of dread and paranoia in this book. I'm expecting lots of twists and turns.
2. What did you recently finish reading? The Family Holiday by Elizabeth Noble. Charlie is a widower looking at his 80th birthday. He wants his children and grandchildren around him on this auspicious occasion but his late wife, Daphne, was the one who handled all things domestic – including maintaining relationships with the kids. Still, he gives it a shot. He rents a home in the Cotswolds for 10 ten days, sends out invitations, and hopes for the best.
This was a very sweet story, well told. Noble writes each chapter in a different character's voice and at first I found this off-putting, but now I get it. A family is collection of individuals, and this book tells this family's story from each of their points of view. It's a book for grown up book, filled with empathy and understanding.
I take it as a good sign that my first book of 2026 is a winner.
3. What will you read next? I don't know.
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