Currently reading: The Last Bake Sale by Andru Volinsky 📚How did this country get into such a bad state with public education funding? Great info, here’s a quote: “… the distribution of property wealth has little to do with the funding needs of particular school districts and the children in them.
Finished reading: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 📚Wonderful novella. Creepy without going all the way to horror. Some exquisite writing and great characters. A world that has a little bit of magic. Recommended.
Currently reading: A Home in Percival by Paula Berman 📚
Currently reading: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 📚
Currently reading: Flight Paths by Rebecca Heisman 📚
Finished reading: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton 📚Sweet non-fiction about a UK homeowner making friends with a hare.
Currently reading: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton 📚Our September book group selection.
Finished reading: The East Indian by Brinda Charry 📚Interesting novel by a local NH author, about a boy from India who ends up in Virginia in the 1600s. Good plot, good characters, well-researched about the beginnings of slavery in America and medicine in the 17th century.
Finished reading: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis 📚a decent, somewhat silly summer read. Fantasy about an evil wizard who loses his memory and thus forgets why he wanted to be evil.
Currently reading: Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer 📚
Currently reading: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis 📚
Currently reading: The East Indian by Brinda Charry 📚Our August book club reading.
Finished reading: Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane 📚I loved this one. While it’s not Macfarlane’s best, even less-than-perfect Macfarlane is head and shoulders above everyone else. Another book in my summer theme of ascribing rights to non-humans.
Finished reading: Small Town, Big Oil by David W. Moore 📚How residents of a coastal NH town in the 1970s successfully fought a Onassis-funded oil refinery. And striking parallels between the awful governor of that time and Trump.
Finished reading: World Without Us by Alan Weisman 📚I didn’t finish this one but it’s definitely an interesting take on how the Earth would respond if all humans disappeared.
Finished reading: Spent by Alison Bechdel 📚Fun! Not quite as good as The Secret to Super Human Strength but still worth reading. Graphic novel.
Currently reading: Spent by Alison Bechdel 📚
Finished reading: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚Not quite as good as Legends & Lattes but I like these characters and the world-building so it wan enjoyable summer read.
Finished reading: Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa 📚A gentle novel that has a lot to say. I want to read it again to further explore the symbolism in the story.
Finished reading: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar 📚Such an interesting dystopian sci-fi novel. The Haves and the Have-nots portrayed in a brutal, thought-provoking way. I also liked The White Mosque by this author, a completely different book about Mennonites in E. Europe.
Currently reading: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚
Currently reading: World Without Us by Alan Weisman 📚
Currently reading: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar 📚
Currently reading: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚
Currently reading: Small Town, Big Oil by David W. Moore 📚