Currently reading: The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks 📚
Finished reading: LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin 📚Had some good moments but was fundamentally unsatisfying.
Currently reading: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong 📚
Currently reading: Ithaca by Claire North 📚
Currently reading: LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin 📚
Finished reading: The Balliols by Alec Waugh 📚So unexpectedly good! Written in 1934, looking back at 1900-1925. Lots about the role of women changing, lots about the disappointments post-WW1. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 📚I didn’t love it. Parts of it were great, a lot of it was preachy.
Currently reading: The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 📚
Currently reading: Learning Science for Instructional Designers by Clark N. Quinn 📚
Finished reading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 📚Such an interesting novel. I suspect it works on many levels. Thank you to my friends in the Readers Republic for recommending it.
Currently reading: The Balliols by Alec Waugh 📚
Finished reading: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚A lovely book written by a happy swimmer and naturalist.
Finished reading: The First World War by John Keegan 📚so excellent. I was too ignorant about this war. So many millions of young men killed. France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Austria, America, all paid such a price.
Finished reading: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez 📚I quite enjoyed this non-fiction book that is a history of science/engineering around specific inventions that have shaped our modern world. I think this was a recommendation from @pratik.
Finished reading: A Dead Djinn in Cairo: A Tor.Com Original by P. Djèlí Clark 📚Turns out this was more of a short story than a full novel. Fun fantasy, set in a 19th century Cairo with magic.
Currently reading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 📚
Currently reading: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚
Currently reading: A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark 📚
Finished reading: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 📚Third in a trilogy. It’s fun fantasy fiction set in Nigeria, I’ve enjoyed this series.
Finished reading: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane 📚A beautiful book. I want to read every book mentioned (such as The Peregrine and Waterlog) as well as everything Macfarlane ever writes.
Finished reading: In the Early Times by Tad Friend 📚 a good read but ultimately so sad. The way being born an American WASP can pollute your being. I have some of it in my background.
Currently reading: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
Currently reading: In the Early Times by Tad Friend 📚
Currently reading: The First World War by John Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg 📚There’s some useful information in here. But so much comes across as dated, and lazy, especially when reading Robert Macfarlane at the same time.