Currently reading: Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddie 📚
Currently reading: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 📚
Finished reading: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 📚Such a wonderful novel. As with most other David Mitchell’s I’ve read, I find myself slowing down my reading in order to prolong the experience.
Finished reading: The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk 📚a fun read. A bit too much 18th century fashion detail but a nice magical world and interesting characters.
Currently reading: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 📚A beautiful, hopeful book. If you have any interest in the local food movement and regenerative agriculture, this is a fabulous, accessible introduction.
Currently reading: The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk 📚
Finished reading: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell 📚I’m beginning to see how all of David Michell’s novels are one big novel, and luckily, I like it.
Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney 📚The clarity of her writing takes my breath away. I didn’t like the characters as people, but it was interesting reading about them.
Finished re-reading: The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran 📚
Currently reading: The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran 📚
Currently reading: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 📚
Currently reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney 📚
Finished reading: Convenience Store Woman: A Novel by Sayaka Murata 📚A strange book but I liked it. I was reading this at the same time as Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and there were strange parallels: humans who don’t feel human; along with taking place in Japan.
Finished reading: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat 📚Excellent book. I liked how much the author let us into his head in terms of living with chronic illness and pain. It helped me with insight and even more compassion for my Long COVID brother.
Currently reading: Convenience Store Woman: A Novel by Sayaka Murata 📚
Currently reading: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 📚
Currently reading: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: What Could Be Saved: A Novel by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz 📚I loved it and I hated it. Child abuse, and in general, adults behaving badly. Deeply felt descriptions of siblings and how they relate. Protagonist exactly my age, DC and foreign service in common.
Currently reading: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat 📚
Finished reading: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 📚There’s a quote on the cover from Pub Weekly saying something like “the best memories of boyhood!” No, that is not what this book is. It’s beautiful with gorgeous characters but it’s a lot about how badly we treat each other.
Currently reading: What Could Be Saved: A Novel by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz 📚
Finished reading: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚I don’t know what genre to put this in. Mystery? Fantasy? It’s elegantly crafted and in a way is about writing: what does it mean to be in a character’s head? I liked it.
Currently reading: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚I enjoyed it just as much as the first one in this series. A teenage “witch” growing up in Nigeria, fighting evil and developing self-awareness.