Finished reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 📚I’m committed to the entire Neopolitan Quartet of books. Judging by this one, it’s going to be intense. She writes so well about being a girl growing up in the early 1960s in a very macho Italy.
Currently reading: The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton 📚
Finished reading: Silverview by John Le Carré 📚another quick but rewarding read. Not the best Le Carre ever but lovely to read after mourning his death a year ago.
Finished reading: Bruno’s Challenge by Martin Walker 📚a tasty pleasure. Quick and easy short stories about a cooking policeman in rural France.
Quit reading: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 📚the main character is awful and I don’t want to read about her anymore. Too bad, because I loved the author’s prior novel.
Currently reading: The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell 📚
Currently reading: Silverview by John Le Carré 📚
Currently reading: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 📚
Currently reading: Bruno’s Challenge by Martin Walker 📚
Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚Quite good. Reminds me of David Mitchell in that it’s not the sequel to prior books but the same characters appear. Definitely a COVID-19 book.
Currently reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 📚
Currently reading: Jena 1800 by Peter Neumann 📚
Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Thinking about quitting : The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚I don’t like the characters. Should I keep going?
Finished reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚can’t say I liked it. Interesting ideas about time travel but ugly takes on race and gender, the maternal instinct, and who is worth saving.
Finished reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚a monster of a book but worth reading as it posits an alternative history that isn’t all about so-called great men and inevitable predatory capitalism.
Currently reading: Fixing Your Scrum by Ryan Ripley 📚
Finished reading: Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddie 📚so good!
Currently reading: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚
Currently reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚what a perfect novel. I loved everything about it, especially the way it’s an ode to libraries.
Finished reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚a good book for people with chronic illness and those who love them.
Quit reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚Reading about over-privileged white people behaving badly does not appeal to me. Child sexual abuse.
Currently reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚
Currently reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚