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.
And I’ve hit my 2026 Reading Goal of 50 books and it’s only August! Thank you to Bookshelves on Micro.blog for helping me keep track.
Currently reading: Colonial New Hampshire A History by Jere R. Daniell 📚
Finished reading: Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke 📚Heading down a rabbit hole of Colonial America history.