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.
Currently reading: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚Continuing my circumnavigation of the big Bujold series.
Finished reading: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks 📚Sweet non-fiction about spending a summer on a Norwegian North Sea island and thinking about how to live life in the 21st century.
Finished reading: Pauper Auction by Mary Kronenwetter 📚Cute little novel about early 19th-century New Hampshire. A funny mix of historically accurate and anachronistic events.
Currently reading: Pauper Auction by Mary Kronenwetter 📚
Currently reading: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks 📚
Currently reading: A man’s place by Annie Ernaux 📚
Currently reading: Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke 📚
Finished reading: Daughters of the Sun and Moon - A Novel by Lisa See 📚good novel with a horrific middle scene but I forgive the author because it’s a true story of a lynching in LA in 1870.
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.