Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

 Fiction by Fannie Flagg

https://www.audible.com

I had read this novel years ago, but I thought I'd try it on audio book. It was doubly good with the Southern lady narrator!

I also read by this author: The Whole Town's Talking

The Undoing Project

Subtitled: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Nonfiction by Daniel Lewis

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The titular Friendship that Changed Our Minds was between two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the middle of the twentieth century. While these men were pretty interesting and their work very interesting, this book itself was not all that interesting.

Although the author gave a lot of information about both men (and a lot of extraneous information, including irrelevant things about his previous successful book Moneyball ), the book didn't read like a story about people. I don't like stories that aren't about people.

I think I would have done better just to read their psychology papers.

What We Can Know

 Fiction by Ian Mc Ewan

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

This was a strange story. The premise is that Thomas Metcalfe is a historian in the year 2119 and he specializes in the period of 1990 to 2030. He is particularly interested in an event called the Second Immortal Dinner which took place in 2014; it was a dinner party where several people of literary importance were in attendance. 

(Incidentally I couldn’t believe there was ever an actual First Immortal Dinner, but I looked it up. On 28 December 1817 some painter had a bunch of people over to his house in London, including Keats and Wordsworth. Of course, in real life it's just called The Immortal Dinner. So it's not such a stretch to imagine that there could be another dinner so aggrandizedly labeled, I guess.)

The beginning of the book, the futuristic part, was a little slow and draggy. I almost gave up, but part two of the book, in which we switch narrators and discover the real events of the past, is really good.

I also read by this author: On Chesil Beach

The Opposite of Everyone

 Fiction by Joshilyn Jackson

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

Paula Vauss was born in Alabama while her sixteen-year-old mother was in juvie. Her mother Kai wanted to name her after a Hindu goddess, but nobody listened to that. As soon as Kai turned eighteen and was released, she retrieved Paula and set out on a weird itinerant lifestyle that eventually landed her in grown-up jail and sent Paula to foster care.

Now Paula is an adult and working as a divorce lawyer. She sends her mother money but hasn't spoken to her for fifteen years. But the reader knows, the past will come back...

This was a really good story with great characters. I loved it!

I also read by this author: With My Little Eye

Like Mother Like Daughter

 Fiction by Kimberly McCreight

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

NYU student Cleo came to her parents' apartment on a Sunday evening to have dinner with her mother she finds the place empty. Dinner is burning on the stove and there is broken glass and blood on the floor. Cleo realizes her mother is missing, so she calls the police and she calls her father (who is supposed to be on a business trip).

When the police arrive they are openly suspicious of Cleo's father, who apparently has been back in New York for hours, although he told Cleo he was just getting off the plane when she called. And, as the reader slowly discovers, neither he not her mother has been completely honest with Cleo about a lot of things.

This was an exciting mystery story with good characters and a surprises ending.

Behind These Four Walls

 Fiction by Yasmin Angoe

https://www.amazon.com

At the beginning of this story, 26-year-old Isla Thorne is waiting for a bus when she sees a young woman with a flat tire and helps her out. The young woman is Holland Corrigan, youngest daughter of the fabulously rich Corrigan family of Virginia. 

But this wasn't just a chance meeting; Isla is hoping to infiltrate the family because she's looking for her friend Eden. Eden disappeared ten years ago, and the last thing she told Isla was that she was heading to the Corrigan mansion.

This was an okay mystery novel, but it had a few too many unbelievable coincidences for me.

Count My Lies

 Fiction by Sophie Stava

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

Sloan Caraway is a liar, and she admits it. Well, she admits it to herself at least. At the very beginning of this book she tells a nice-looking single dad at the the park that she is a nurse named Caitlin. But Sloan is wearing scrubs because she is a nail technician, not a nurse. And it turns out the dad is not exactly single...

Soon "Caitlin" is ingratiating herself with the dad AND his wife, and angling to get herself hired as a nanny. But is she going to be able to keep track of all the lies she had told when she's there long-term? And what if her fake nursing skills are really needed?

This was a really exciting thriller that kept me guessing!