Want to keep this thread going, and to add a couple

A Devil to Play - Jasper Rees - One man's quest to master the French Horn after a 22 year hiatus. The French Horn is the most difficult instrument to play - if anyone here plays, well I bow to you. This book sent me to the dictionary 4 times. That's a first! Lots of music background. Very interesting story. Similar in nature to the Piano Shop on the Left Bank (Thaddeus Carhart), which I may have liked a little better, but very different styles. If you have any interest in musical instruments you will enjoy these.

The Housekeeper and the Professor - Y¯oko Ogawa - novel about a housekeeper caring for a mathematician who, as a result of a car accident, has only 80 minutes short term memory. Then everything has to start over. Wonderful, charming story, well written. Just what I needed after the dreary books my book club keeps choosing.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer, Mary Ann. Very funny and another charming story about a sort of book club on the isle of Guernsey during the German Occupation. Good story, well written.