Summer Reading

I read The Widow's War by Sally Gunning because it was recommended by two different people. There were times when I was reading this that I wasn't so sure if I liked it; but in the end, I did think it was pretty good. I am not a big fan of historical fiction, so that may have been part of my hesitation, or maybe it is a little slow in the middle. The book is set in the 1700s, and is based on a woman's right to rule her own life and have control over property, which she did not have at that time in the newly forming United States. I am also in the process of reading Daniel Deronda, which is set in the 1800s in England, but is basically about the same topic. It seems, unfortunately, that we could write a similar book today, and perhaps that is what Allison Pearson did when she wrote I don't know how she does it, a satirical look at the impossibility of motherhood and full time employment. In this century, we are not so much constrained by law, as we are constrained by nature or cultural mores that say that the mother should carry the greater part of child care duties.
Thanks for recommending books, keep those recommendations coming!