Finished reading: Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger 📚Definitely a good read. An American researches his Nazi grandfather. He notes how small decisions become big decisions. And that treating people with humanity is always the right thing to do, of course.
Finished reading: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 📚worth reading. Interesting meditations on relationships, religion, science, faith. Set in England as science was being invented. Interesting characters.
Currently reading: Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger 📚
Currently reading: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) 📚
Finished reading: Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson 📚Notched another one from the “Robert Macfarlane Recommended Reading” list. Written in the 1920s, a beautiful but also brutal naturalist work about the short life of an otter in the English countryside.
Currently reading: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 📚
Currently reading: White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link 📚
Finished reading: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 📚quite good. A Shakespearean ending that takes your breath away but also makes sense as a commentary on our late-capitalism world.
Currently reading: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 📚
Currently reading: Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson 📚
Finished reading: The Years by Annie Ernaux 📚This took me a while to get through but in the end, I agree that it’s a masterpiece. It manages to be the story of the past 60 years for a white, educated woman and yet general, too. She captures so much in so few words. Translated from the French.
Finished reading: Loot by Tania James 📚An excellent novel, set in India and France, touches on history, colonialism, growing up bi-racial, and more heavy topics while also being an enjoyable read. Highly recommended.
Currently reading: Poor and of Lo Make, the Diary of Abner Sanger (late 1700s) by 📚
Currently reading: Loot by Tania James 📚
Finished reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚a fun hard-boiled detective story with ghosts and ghouls.
Currently reading Resist by Lee Schneider @leeS 📚
Finished reading: Homegoing: A novel by Yaa Gyasi 📚Definitely worth reading. It contains scenes of abuse and violence but only in service to the story and the history. Half-sisters in the 1700s, one stays in Africa, one is enslaved and taken to America. It’s the story of all the generations to now.
Currently reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚
Finished reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚Worth reading. A good tale about how the historian gets to tell the history. Plenty to think about.
Currently reading: Homegoing: A novel by Yaa Gyasi 📚
Finished reading: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams 📚by the author of, and adjacent to The Dictionary of Lost Words. A sweet novel, set during WW1 in Oxford, England. I enjoyed it.
Currently reading: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams 📚
Finished reading: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery 📚What a sweet, delicious, thought-provoking book. My attitude toward turtles has been changed from mostly indifferent to “Wow, Turtles!” This book will also serve as a good history of what pandemic time was like.
Currently reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚
Finished reading: Women Talking by Miriam Toews 📚such a strange book. I’m thinking I should watch the movie.