Currently reading: 142 Ostriches by April Davila ๐Ÿ“š

Currently reading: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny ๐Ÿ“šThis month’s book group read.

Finished reading: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich ๐Ÿ“šMixed feelings. Overall, I liked it a lot. Some great characters. But there’s a terrible scene of horror where several teens die, too memorable. And the poor men in this book! So many die, or are emotionally wounded, or get sick.

Currently reading: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich ๐Ÿ“š

Finished reading: Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers ๐Ÿ“šI know people love it but I found it tedious.

Currently reading: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth ๐Ÿ“š

Our beautiful mountain with our ski tracks

Mountain and snow, XC ski tracks visible

Currently reading: Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers ๐Ÿ“š

Currently reading: Reading the Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud ๐Ÿ“š

Finished reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks ๐Ÿ“šPretty good novel. Interesting characters and a wonderful horse.

I kinda like my 2024 Podcast Listening History.

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Currently reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks ๐Ÿ“š

Finished Reading ๐Ÿ“šCrying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner. It’s ultimately a sad story of a young woman having to watch her mother die of a painful cancer. There’s a lot of sweetness and many descriptions of great Korean food. In so many families, mine included, we preserve culture through food.

Quit reading: Gnomon by Nick Harkaway ๐Ÿ“šunreadable for many reasons, including typographic choices that made reading on Kindle nearly impossible.

Finished reading: Parsons’ Mill by Timothy Lewontin ๐Ÿ“šnice but dated non-fiction about a young man who decides to take a job at a small lumber mill in Vermont. Good descriptions of a world that no longer exists.

Currently reading: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ๐Ÿ“šOur next Library book club read.

Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley ๐Ÿ“šFun, time-traveling novel with a bunch of twists. Provides a surprising amount of information about 18th-century Arctic explorers, too.

Finished reading: Solito by Javier Zamora ๐Ÿ“šSomewhat harrowing story of a 9-year-old’s journey from Guatemala to the US in 1999. Well-written and worth reading.

Currently reading: Parsons’ Mill by Timothy Lewontin ๐Ÿ“š

I’m happy with the Midori planner I chose to replace Hobonichi Techo in my life. Undated pages mean I can expand and contract as needed. Excellent fountain pen paper (not as smooth as the Techo, but close).

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Year in books for 2024

Here are the books I finished reading in 2024. My goal was 50, read 71. Mostly good stuff! Iโ€™m lucky to have access to an excellent albeit small library.

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen The Tainted Cup The Bear The Fraud Strong Songs of the Dead Lifehouse On Beauty In the Matter of Color In the Shadow of the Dam Enlightenment Penric's Demon Amos Fortune, Free Man An Unkindness of Ghosts Cunning Folk Master Slave Husband Wife The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America North Woods Escape From Kathmandu Anita de Monte Laughs Last This Other Eden Titanium Noir A Conjuring of Light My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries A Gathering of Shadows James A Darker Shade of Magic Last Lecture 3 Shades of Blue The Song of Achilles Reader, Come Home Little Failure Medusa Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart The Girl With All the Gifts The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Circe The Romantic Waking the Moon Circling the Sun A Woman of the Iron People Creation The Perfectionists My Name Is Lucy Barton True Biz The Invention of Nature Open Water The Odyssey American Mermaid The Sugar Queen Jayber Crow Clarissa The Long Haul The Forgotten Girls The Casuarina Tree Tom Lake Girl, Woman, Other The House of Doors The Silence of the Girls The Fragile Threads of Power Hello Beautiful The Bee Sting The Sandcastle Girls The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Olive Kitteridge How to Find Love in a Bookshop Wolfsong Household Saints

Currently reading: Solito by Javier Zamora ๐Ÿ“š

Finished reading: The Fragile Threads of Power by V ๐Ÿ“š I enjoyed the first trilogy set in this world, but I’m going to stop with this new series. Weirdly violent, and just more of the same in terms of plot and characters.

Currently reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley ๐Ÿ“š

Finished reading: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen ๐Ÿ“šmy Dutch step-son said it was a world-wide bestseller. A pleasant read but nothing especially insightful.