Currently reading: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout 📚
Finished reading: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede 📚Interesting 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 📚A 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 📚
Finished reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Currently reading: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede 📚Our September Library Book Club selection.
Currently reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Finished reading: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚Getting started with the Vorkosigan Saga!
Currently reading: Jade City by Fonda Lee 📚
Currently reading: Colonial New Hampshire A History by Jere R. Daniell 📚
Finished reading: Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke 📚Heading down a rabbit hole of Colonial America history.
Currently reading: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚Continuing my circumnavigation of the big Bujold series.
Finished reading: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks 📚Sweet 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 📚Cute little novel about early 19th-century New Hampshire. A funny mix of historically accurate and anachronistic events.
Currently reading: Pauper Auction by Mary Kronenwetter 📚
Currently reading: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks 📚
Currently reading: A man’s place by Annie Ernaux 📚
Currently reading: Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke 📚
Finished reading: Daughters of the Sun and Moon - A Novel by Lisa See 📚good novel with a horrific middle scene but I forgive the author because it’s a true story of a lynching in LA in 1870.
Finished reading: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro 📚This was a book club pick. I didn’t love it but it had some interesting history of the early days of aviation. The marriage of Amelia Earhart and George Putnam seemed doomed from the start.
Currently reading: Daughters of the Sun and Moon - A Novel by Lisa See 📚
Finished reading: Joyride by Susan Orlean 📚Fun if somewhat self-absorbed autobiography by an author I enjoy.
Finished reading: Book of Hope by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams 📚July book club choice. The sentiment was nice but so boring and repetitive. Too much of the author.
Finished reading: This Cold Heaven Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich 📚 Feels especially timely to read this while Trump and his mobsters are trying to steal Greenland.