Finished reading: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro 📚This was a book club pick. I didn’t love it but it had some interesting history of the early days of aviation. The marriage of Amelia Earhart and George Putnam seemed doomed from the start.
Currently reading: Daughters of the Sun and Moon - A Novel by Lisa See 📚
Finished reading: Joyride by Susan Orlean 📚Fun if somewhat self-absorbed autobiography by an author I enjoy.
Finished reading: Book of Hope by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams 📚July book club choice. The sentiment was nice but so boring and repetitive. Too much of the author.
Finished reading: This Cold Heaven Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich 📚 Feels especially timely to read this while Trump and his mobsters are trying to steal Greenland.
For EV owners in the US: look for Rivian Adventure Network chargers. They are newly arrived in New England and are so good. No app, just tap and pay. Fast. 6 chargers per station.
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 📚