What Audra, Peggy and Their Moms are Reading Now + A Giveaway

by Audra H. Anders for The Aha! Connection

I just finished a really fun book and asked Peggy what she’s reading now.  She was sitting by her Mom on the beach so told me what her Mom was reading too….so I called my Mom to find out what she’s reading and decided to share our four books of the week with everyone!  Review them all and see the bottom of this post to learn how you could win a copy of the one that interests you the most!

Audra’s Current Book

The Instant New York Times Best Seller from the Number One New York Times Best-Selling Author of People We Meet on Vacation

“Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling.” (Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game)

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

June’s Current Book (Audra’s Mom)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two families. One courtroom showdown. • John Grisham’s most gripping thriller yet. • “A legal literary legend.” —USA Today
 
John Grisham returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Grisham’s trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion.

Peggy’s Current Book

A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments

Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.

Donna’s Current Book (Peggy’s Mom)

Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medallion―depicting an enslaved African and inscribed “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”―became the most popular symbol of the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. And he did it all in the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. 

Leave a comment with which one of these books you’d like to win and we’ll order a copy and send directly to the home of the randomly chosen winner on Friday, April 7th!