Currently reading: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 📚
Finished reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 📚Worth reading.
Finished reading: Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 📚Kinda fun, slightly romantic novel. You learn a lot about dancing at the Bolshoi and the jewelry auction business.
Currently reading: Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 📚
Finished reading: Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud 📚I really enjoyed this non-fiction book about a woman’s life as a geologist. Lots of great geologic insights in addition to some good life lessons.
Currently reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚 Our April Library book club read.
Finished reading: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny 📚A pretty good read about two botanists who rafted the Colorado River through the Glen and Grand Canyons before the dams were built.
Finished reading: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 📚 Annoying but also very readable, to the point where I stayed up until 3 AM finishing it (ugh). Way too much “I love them but they couldn’t possibly care for me.” I guess this is a Rom-antasy? Some very fun characters, interesting world.
Currently reading: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 📚
Currently reading: Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud 📚
Finished reading: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth 📚 This is one of my favorite authors and this novel did not disappoint, even though I did not trust the narrator. It was interesting to learn quite a bit about chamber music, interesting to consider as I begin my second year of fiddle lessons.
Finished reading: 142 Ostriches by April Davila 📚Fun novel, sort of a coming-of-age story. Good characters, and you learn a lot about ostriches. The end is a bit of a muddle but I’m willing to forgive because it was a good ride.
Currently reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 📚
Currently reading: 142 Ostriches by April Davila 📚
Currently reading: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny 📚This month’s book group read.
Finished reading: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich 📚Mixed 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 📚
Finished reading: Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚I know people love it but I found it tedious.
Currently reading: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth 📚
Currently reading: Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
Currently reading: Reading the Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud 📚
Finished reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks 📚Pretty good novel. Interesting characters and a wonderful horse.
Currently reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks 📚
Finished Reading 📚Crying 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 📚unreadable for many reasons, including typographic choices that made reading on Kindle nearly impossible.