Currently reading: The Silver Book by Olivia Laing đź“š
Finished reading: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing đź“šlovely non-fiction about gardens, gardening and everything.
Finished reading: Palaces of the Crow: A Novel by Ray Nayler đź“šsuch 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 đź“š
Finished reading: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“šMore fun stuff in the Vorkosigan series. I admit I spent too much time up late reading this.
Currently reading: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“š
Finished reading: Colonial New Hampshire A History by Jere R. Daniell đź“šDetailed 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 đź“š
Finished reading: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout đź“šAn 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”.
Currently reading: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“š
Currently reading: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout đź“š
Finished reading: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede đź“šInteresting 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 đź“šA 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 đź“š
Finished reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“š
Currently reading: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede đź“šOur September Library Book Club selection.
Currently reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“š
Finished reading: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“šGetting started with the Vorkosigan Saga!
Currently reading: Jade City by Fonda Lee đź“š
Currently reading: Colonial New Hampshire A History by Jere R. Daniell đź“š
Finished reading: Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke đź“šHeading down a rabbit hole of Colonial America history.
Currently reading: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold đź“šContinuing my circumnavigation of the big Bujold series.
Finished reading: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks đź“šSweet 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 đź“šCute little novel about early 19th-century New Hampshire. A funny mix of historically accurate and anachronistic events.