Currently reading: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab 📚
Currently reading: Wilder Shore by Camille Peri 📚Our Library book club read for November.
Currently reading: Yesteryear A Novel by Caro Claire Burke 📚
Currently reading: The Silver Book by Olivia Laing 📚
Finished reading: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing 📚lovely non-fiction about gardens, gardening and everything.
Finished reading: Palaces of the Crow: A Novel by Ray Nayler 📚such a confusing start, such a poignant end, it brought me to good tears. WW2 novel, with perhaps fantasy elements. Recommended.
Currently reading: Palaces of the Crow: A Novel by Ray Nayler 📚
Finished reading: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚More fun stuff in the Vorkosigan series. I admit I spent too much time up late reading this.
Currently reading: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Finished reading: Colonial New Hampshire A History by Jere R. Daniell 📚Detailed but also accessible. Useful if you’re trying to understand the scale of the difference between life then and now. But it’s a lot of detailed New Hampshire politics of the 17th, 18th and early 19th century.
Currently reading: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing 📚
Finished reading: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout 📚An amazing novel. I’ve read a lot of Strout’s books, but this one is special and is by far my favorite. It reminds me of the Joyce story “The Dead”.
A friend of mine has a new substack that I am highly recommending. They take one event/issue related to ecological change and do a deep dive into the science. It’s readable and engaging. Here’s the most recent one on the disaster in Nepal.
Currently reading: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Currently reading: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout 📚
Finished reading: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede 📚Interesting to read on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. I hope my small town would be as generous and welcoming as those Newfoundlanders.
Finished reading: Jade City by Fonda Lee 📚did not finish. Too much violence, characters I didn’t care about. Interesting world building and magic system, though.
Finished reading: Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards 📚A beautiful novel about faith and doubt set in 1299 in Flanders.
Currently reading: How the Scots Invented the Modern World The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman 📚
Finished reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Currently reading: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede 📚Our September Library Book Club selection.
Currently reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Finished reading: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚Getting started with the Vorkosigan Saga!
Currently reading: Jade City by Fonda Lee 📚
Currently on-boarding a new client and working on non-profit activities for Sharing Housing, Inc. and the Monadnock Folklore Society.