As always, links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com:

• The Book of Madness and Cures, Regina O’Melveny
• The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
• Memoir of the Sunday Brunch, Julia Pandl
• The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht
• A Dangerous Inheritance, Alison Weir
• The Girl in the Blue Beret, Bobbie Ann Mason
• A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, Suzanne Joinson

Interestingly, the first and last books I read this month were a nice pair to bookend. Both have a similar feel, sharing something of the same tone, unconventional female protagonists, all wrapped up in a tale of travel in exotic lands, in times when very few people went anywhere, let alone women.