What Fiction are you reading this week, May 7, 2023?

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2. After several starts with other titles

I finally got into "The Art of Disappearing" by Ivy Pochoda.

From Goodreads:

How do you know if love is real or just an illusion?

When Mel Snow meets the talented magician Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant performer whose hands can effortlessly pull stray saltshakers and poker chips from thin air and conjure castles out of the desert sands. Just two days later they are married, beginning their life together in the shadow of Las Vegas, where Toby hopes to make it big. Mel knows that magicians are a dime a dozen, but Toby is different—his magic is real.

It sounds like a love story but it's not. When it says his magic is real, it means he reaches "into" the air & literally pulls things out from other places, sometimes a wallet from an audience member's pocket, but sometimes sand from the desert or chips from a casino across town. Anyway, I'm about 2/3 through. It's not can't-put-it-down good, but it's good.

This is her first title, & I read one of her more recent titles, "These Women" which I'm pretty sure I reviewed on one of these threads. I enjoyed that book a lot. It was a little dark, but all the main characters were women with very different perspectives.

Love that devoted dog in the picture! Mine would never do that.