The first book club for 2026 is Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston. I've read this book before because it is a classic, and I want to be well-read. What benefits me about book club is I dig deeper into a book and find so much more than I realized as I zoomed by. Set before World War 1 in Florida, Janie Crawford carries the weight of being the granddaughter of an enslaved woman. Raised by her nurturing grandmother, she is married at 16 to a potato farmer. Her grandmother is seeking to break the cycle of abuse, but in reality, perpetuates it. Janie is loved, but valued for work. Mules are a symbol of beast of burdens that depict Janie's life of having to carry both race and gender.
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is my first five-star book of 2026. I felt a strong connection to this book for many reasons. It is set in Annapolis, Maryland, and many of the landmarks mentioned were familiar. Sybil Van Antwerp is a retired lawyer living alone. She reads voraciously, and her days are spent between her garden and her correspondence. She writes everyone--authors she's read, her childhood pen pal, her neighbors, the dean of English at the University of Maryland, her brother in France, everyone. Grumpy, stodgy, set in her ways, with deep hurts, and yet caring deeply for those around her, Sybil is my favorite type of character, a ball of conflicting emotions and actions.
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I have a love loathe relationship with with Lily King's novels. She writes about women who are intelligent and aware, but also conflicted and fragile. They have experienced things that give them grit, and make them mistrustful others. These women are frequently caught between two men. Heart the Lover follows this same pattern, exploiting the tension of this triangle. Jordan life trajectory changes when she meets Sam and Yash in her English Literature class. They are honors students that operate on a different level of thinking, writing, and conversing. She is drawn in and becomes enthralled with writing. Twnety years later, her current cozy life is interrupted by a visit from her former lover. King writes kind wisdom capturing first love, the anything can happen early life, and the costliness of forgiveness.
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