Currently reading: Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman 📚
Currently reading: Chants Democratic by Sean Wilentz 📚
Currently reading: Himalayan Dhaba by Craig Joseph Danner 📚
Currently reading: Technical Blogging by Antonio Cangiano 📚
Finished reading: The Healing Power of Story by Annie Brewster 📚A good idea, about how storytelling can help patients with serious illnesses, but somehow the book comes across as juvenile and self-serving.
Finished reading: Fixing Your Scrum by Ryan Ripley 📚an excellent book for anyone working on an Agile team.
Currently reading: The Healing Power of Story by Annie Brewster 📚
Finished reading: The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton 📚A WWII novel that is part funny and part tragic. I realized my parents had named our childhood cat after the main character, Bombolino. Another insight into the awfulness of WWII.
Finished reading: The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell 📚I greatly enjoyed this non-fiction book about 6 female war correspondents who reported on WWII. It brought home to me the awfulness of that war. I was born in 1960, 15 years after WWII ended. But it was not spoken of.
Currently reading: The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Book 2) by Elena Ferrante 📚
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.