I've read two good books lately, one for each of my book clubs. One was Still Life with Bread Crumbs; the other was The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry. Both novels are about people whose generally good lives have been on a downhill slide when their circumstances change for the better. A few months before that, both clubs chose interesting nonfiction books about maritime disasters--Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania and In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the US Jeannette.