Currently reading: The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 📚
Currently reading: Learning Science for Instructional Designers by Clark N. Quinn 📚
Finished reading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 📚Such an interesting novel. I suspect it works on many levels. Thank you to my friends in the Readers Republic for recommending it.
Currently reading: The Balliols by Alec Waugh 📚
Finished reading: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚A lovely book written by a happy swimmer and naturalist.
Finished reading: The First World War by John Keegan 📚so excellent. I was too ignorant about this war. So many millions of young men killed. France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Austria, America, all paid such a price.
Finished reading: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez 📚I quite enjoyed this non-fiction book that is a history of science/engineering around specific inventions that have shaped our modern world. I think this was a recommendation from @pratik.
Finished reading: A Dead Djinn in Cairo: A Tor.Com Original by P. Djèlí Clark 📚Turns out this was more of a short story than a full novel. Fun fantasy, set in a 19th century Cairo with magic.
Currently reading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 📚
Currently reading: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚
Currently reading: A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark 📚
Finished reading: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 📚Third in a trilogy. It’s fun fantasy fiction set in Nigeria, I’ve enjoyed this series.
Finished reading: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane 📚A beautiful book. I want to read every book mentioned (such as The Peregrine and Waterlog) as well as everything Macfarlane ever writes.
Finished reading: In the Early Times by Tad Friend 📚 a good read but ultimately so sad. The way being born an American WASP can pollute your being. I have some of it in my background.
Currently reading: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
Currently reading: In the Early Times by Tad Friend 📚
Currently reading: The First World War by John Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg 📚There’s some useful information in here. But so much comes across as dated, and lazy, especially when reading Robert Macfarlane at the same time.
Currently reading: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane 📚
Finished reading: The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚A beautiful book. It was an enjoyable way to get to know the author. I hiked in the Sierra Nevada as a 20-something and the book brought back good memories.
Currently reading: The Promise by Damon Galgut 📚
Finished reading: Adam Bede (Broadview Editions) by George Eliot 📚A surprisingly modern novel. So much about class and unfairness and gender and choices and the lack thereof. I loved it.
Finished reading: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 📚Tales of good people behaving badly. But they behaved so badly that it was hard to maintain interest in and empathy for them.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Currently reading: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez 📚
Finished reading: The Story Of The Lost Child by Elena Ferrante 📚I’m sad to finish this quartet of novels, they are each so so good. I didn’t know that no one knows who the author is: Elena Ferrante: Who Is Behind the Pseudonym? - The Atlantic