Currently reading: Penric and the Shaman: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Curse of Chalion Series, Book 5) by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Finished reading: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 📚Thought-provoking and well written. I enjoyed it.
Finished reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 📚enjoyed this fantasy novel a lot. Good characters, interesting plot and a bit of history.
Currently reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 📚
Finished reading: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 📚Wonderful and tragic non-fiction. Also frightening, because of the parallels between 1930s Germany and 2020s America.
Currently reading: This Cold Heaven Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich 📚
Quit reading: Life Class by Pat Barker 📚Couldn’t manufacture interest in the characters, and not enough history to be interesting.
Currently reading: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 📚
Finished reading: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 📚Surprisingly good book about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, focused on the lives of the crew. I also learned a lot about the economics of the car and steel industries in the Midwest, the history of the Great Lakes shipping, and more.
Currently reading: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 📚
Finished reading: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 📚Excellent, devastating novel about South Africa under apartheid.
Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚Fantastic novel. Yes, it’s probably about another planet, but more than that, it’s a lesson in philosophy and what it means to be human. I didn’t realize how old it is, and I’m glad it’s being rediscovered.
Currently reading: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 📚
Currently reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚
Currently reading: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 📚
Finished reading: The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson 📚A beautiful novel. A bit heavy-handed in its politics, but I share them so appreciated it. I learned a lot about Pacific Island life. Great characters, good story. Plenty to think about.
Finished reading: To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 📚I loved this book. New Hampshire, where I live, plays a part in the story, but it’s the “mystery” that is interesting, and the meditation on talent, personality, and luck is fascinating.
Finished reading: Many Lagoons by Ralph Varady 📚Written in the late 1950s and therefore dated in many ways, but also interesting. An American lives on a South Pacific island for a year. I’m also reading The Wayfinder and was interested to see a 1950s description of the same setting.
Currently reading: To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 📚
Finished reading: The Book of Difficult Fruit Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) by Kate Lebo 📚Excellent. It’s about everything.
Currently reading: The Book of Difficult Fruit Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) by Kate Lebo 📚
Finished reading: The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne 📚Nice novel about living in Kurdistan for a year, teaching English. Interesting characters, I learned a lot about Kurdish culture.
Finished reading: My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem 📚Interesting guidebook with exercises on how to heal from generational trauma and recognize internalized racism.
Currently reading: And the Roots of Rhythm Remain by Joe Boyd 📚sick with COVID, perfect time to tackle 900 page, quite readable book on music.
Finished reading: Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen 📚long and tedious. Supposedly a horror novel but I found it good for putting me to sleep.