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 📚
Currently reading: The Postcard by Anne Berest 📚
Finished reading: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 📚I’m not sure what this novel was about. Sometimes I thought it was about the act of writing a novel. But still worth reading, even though it confused me.
Currently reading: Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane 📚In my current theme of legal rights for non-human entities, note that this includes rereading The Wizard of Earthsea.
Currently reading: Abundance by Ezra Klein 📚
Currently reading: Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer 📚
Finished reading: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 📚I enjoyed this novel, though the subject matter is war and generational trauma.
Currently reading: Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa 📚
Finished reading: Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World by Brandon Keim 📚interesting and thought-provoking. Considering animal consciousness and agency.
Finished reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 📚Beautiful little novel, a meditation on kindness, class (in many of this word’s meanings), mathematics, and found family.
Currently reading: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 📚
Currently reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 📚
Currently reading: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 📚Even the first chapters are wonderful. What do I mean when I say “you.” What do you mean when you say “I.” And other meditations on thinking and writing.
Finished reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚Hey, we can electrify everything. And the net use of energy in the US would be halved.
Finished reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan 📚Nice little novel, a little heavy-handed in its message but still worth reading.
Currently reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚
Currently reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Lent by Jo Walton 📚excellent novel, history and fantasy adjacent, about a 15th C. monk. Meditations on how to make a difference and live a good life, while knowing that life is also futile.
Finished reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚Not my favorite book of his, felt a bit unfinished, but still worth reading.