Currently reading: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik 📚
Finished reading: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 📚A murder mystery with social commentary and very well done. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker 📚A lovely read. Nothing happens except that our barely visible author watches several peregrine hawks hunt their prey day after day during an English winter and spring. The writing is amazing.
Currently reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚
Currently reading: The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik 📚
Currently reading: Collected Fiction by Michael Chabon 📚
Currently reading: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 📚
Finished reading: Fieldwork by Iliana Regan 📚Interesting, if self-involved, non-fiction about living in the midwestern woods, foraging, running a Michelin-starred restaurant, while having grown up in trauma.
Currently reading: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker 📚
Finished reading: Babel by R Huang📚OK but not awesome. Boring characters but interesting world building with many lessons for our world.
Finished reading: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 📚enjoyed it but only because I am a Graeber completionist. It read like his notes, rather than an actual book.
Currently reading: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 📚
Currently reading: Fieldwork by Iliana Regan 📚
Currently reading: Babel by RF Kuang📚
Finished reading: Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin 📚An excellent read and quite edifying.
Finished reading: The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton 📚For dystopian, climate-disaster fiction, this was pretty good and not killingly depressing.
Currently reading: The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton 📚
Quit reading: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 📚I liked Dawn of Everything so much more.
Finished reading: There’s a Porcupine in My Outhouse by Michael J. Tougias 📚A fun little read about being a city kid in a rustic cabin in the wilds of Vermont.
Currently reading: The Diamond Eye: A Novel by Kate Quinn 📚
Currently reading: Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin 📚
Currently reading: There’s a Porcupine in My Outhouse by Michael J. Tougias 📚
Currently reading: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 📚
Finished reading: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott 📚what a treat! Fun, deep, meaningful, imaginative and yet also a retelling of old tales. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede 📚A very silly book but perfect bedtime reading. No suspense and thus conducive to falling asleep.