Finished reading: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 📚I loved this novel. Sorta SciFi, sorta Fantasy, but all great. A fun summer read with plenty of characters who are uncommon stars.
Finished reading: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2) by Arkady Martine 📚Fantastic world building but somehow it just doesn’t all hang together with a bit too much Deus ex Machina. However, it’s good enough that I want to read the first in the series, A Memory Called Empire, which garnered so much praise.
Currently reading: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 📚
Finished reading: Whirlybird Island by Ernest Hebert 📚Worth reading for Hebert fans, which I am.
Finished reading: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez 📚A beautiful book with a useful perspective on nature and living a good life. It saddens me to know that his home burned in a wildfire. Remembering Barry Lopez, McKenzie River and Finn Rock resident
Currently reading: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2) by Arkady Martine 📚I haven’t read the first one A Memory Called Empire but so far it seems fine to begin with Book 2. Book 1 has been hard to get from my Library.
Finished reading: The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Book 2) by Elena Ferrante 📚oh my, these novels are SO GOOD. They are searing and painful and contain topics I hate (abuse, misogyny) but the world is so real and the characters so well drawn. I am in awe of the writing.
Currently reading: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante 📚
Currently reading: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez 📚
Currently reading: Whirlybird Island by Ernest Hebert 📚
Finished reading: Himalayan Dhaba by Craig Joseph Danner 📚Not recommended unless you’re one of those people who love it when emergency room doctors start telling graphic stories.
Finished reading: Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman 📚Quite a good book about what Germany has done to “work off” its Nazi crimes, and what the US could do to work off its slavery crimes.
Finished reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller 📚a useful marketing book. So many in this genre are useless.
Finished reading: Frankie’s Place by Jim Sterba 📚I liked this more than I expected. Well-off white people enjoying their boring summers in Maine in the 1990s. With recipes.
Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚Another one of those novels that is full of “and then this happened and then that happened.” I keep reading them through to the end but I don’t love them.
Finished reading: Because Our Fathers Lied by Craig McNamara 📚A book with personal resonance for me, as it has to do with growing up in Washington, DC with a parent in the federal government who is not always truthful.
Currently reading: Frankie’s Place by Jim Sterba 📚
Currently reading: Because Our Fathers Lied by Craig McNamara 📚
Currently reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller 📚
Sort of finished reading: Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers 📚ended up skimming through to the end. No likeable characters and I couldn’t see the value in further study of their flaws.
Currently reading: Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers 📚
Currently reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚
Finished reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki 📚not as good as I had hoped. Given its weighty topics, I wanted a deeper treatment.
Currently reading: Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman 📚
Currently reading: Chants Democratic by Sean Wilentz 📚