Finished reading: Penric and the Shaman: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Curse of Chalion Series, Book 5) by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚I’m happily in the middle of reading all 16 of the Penric and Desdemona novellas. Perfect summer reading. Thanks to the Incomparable for the cue.
Currently reading: Book of Hope by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams 📚Our next Library book club selection.
Currently reading: Joyride by Susan Orlean 📚
Currently reading: Penric and the Shaman: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Curse of Chalion Series, Book 5) by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Finished reading: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 📚Thought-provoking and well written. I enjoyed it.
Finished reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 📚enjoyed this fantasy novel a lot. Good characters, interesting plot and a bit of history.
Heading for Montreal soon. Recommendations welcome.
Currently reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 📚
Finished reading: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 📚Wonderful and tragic non-fiction. Also frightening, because of the parallels between 1930s Germany and 2020s America.
Currently reading: This Cold Heaven Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich 📚
Quit reading: Life Class by Pat Barker 📚Couldn’t manufacture interest in the characters, and not enough history to be interesting.
Currently reading: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 📚
Finished reading: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 📚Surprisingly good book about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, focused on the lives of the crew. I also learned a lot about the economics of the car and steel industries in the Midwest, the history of the Great Lakes shipping, and more.
I still love the hemisphericviews.com podcast. @HemisphericViews @canion et al. You guys make me laugh out loud regularly, and nod along as I say, “Yes, that’s exactly what I think, too.” Or not!
Currently reading: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 📚
Finished reading: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 📚Excellent, devastating novel about South Africa under apartheid.
Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚Fantastic novel. Yes, it’s probably about another planet, but more than that, it’s a lesson in philosophy and what it means to be human. I didn’t realize how old it is, and I’m glad it’s being rediscovered.
Currently reading: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 📚
Currently reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚
Currently reading: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 📚
All the stupid April Fool’s stuff on the Internet bores me. Anyway, this is your heads up to believe even less of what you read on the Internet than usual.
Finished reading: The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson 📚A beautiful novel. A bit heavy-handed in its politics, but I share them so appreciated it. I learned a lot about Pacific Island life. Great characters, good story. Plenty to think about.
Finished reading: To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 📚I loved this book. New Hampshire, where I live, plays a part in the story, but it’s the “mystery” that is interesting, and the meditation on talent, personality, and luck is fascinating.
Finished reading: Many Lagoons by Ralph Varady 📚Written in the late 1950s and therefore dated in many ways, but also interesting. An American lives on a South Pacific island for a year. I’m also reading The Wayfinder and was interested to see a 1950s description of the same setting.
Currently reading: To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 📚