Finished reading: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 📚 Annoying but also very readable, to the point where I stayed up until 3 AM finishing it (ugh). Way too much “I love them but they couldn’t possibly care for me.” I guess this is a Rom-antasy? Some very fun characters, interesting world.
Currently reading: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 📚
Currently reading: Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud 📚
Finished reading: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth 📚 This is one of my favorite authors and this novel did not disappoint, even though I did not trust the narrator. It was interesting to learn quite a bit about chamber music, interesting to consider as I begin my second year of fiddle lessons.
Finished reading: 142 Ostriches by April Davila 📚Fun novel, sort of a coming-of-age story. Good characters, and you learn a lot about ostriches. The end is a bit of a muddle but I’m willing to forgive because it was a good ride.
Currently reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 📚
Currently reading: 142 Ostriches by April Davila 📚
Currently reading: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny 📚This month’s book group read.
Finished reading: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich 📚Mixed feelings. Overall, I liked it a lot. Some great characters. But there’s a terrible scene of horror where several teens die, too memorable. And the poor men in this book! So many die, or are emotionally wounded, or get sick.
Currently reading: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich 📚
Finished reading: Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚I know people love it but I found it tedious.
Currently reading: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth 📚
Currently reading: Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
Currently reading: Reading the Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud 📚
Finished reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks 📚Pretty good novel. Interesting characters and a wonderful horse.
Currently reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks 📚
Finished Reading 📚Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner. It’s ultimately a sad story of a young woman having to watch her mother die of a painful cancer. There’s a lot of sweetness and many descriptions of great Korean food. In so many families, mine included, we preserve culture through food.
Quit reading: Gnomon by Nick Harkaway 📚unreadable for many reasons, including typographic choices that made reading on Kindle nearly impossible.
Finished reading: Parsons’ Mill by Timothy Lewontin 📚nice but dated non-fiction about a young man who decides to take a job at a small lumber mill in Vermont. Good descriptions of a world that no longer exists.
Currently reading: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 📚Our next Library book club read.
Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚Fun, time-traveling novel with a bunch of twists. Provides a surprising amount of information about 18th-century Arctic explorers, too.
Finished reading: Solito by Javier Zamora 📚Somewhat harrowing story of a 9-year-old’s journey from Guatemala to the US in 1999. Well-written and worth reading.
Currently reading: Parsons’ Mill by Timothy Lewontin 📚
Currently reading: Solito by Javier Zamora 📚
Finished reading: The Fragile Threads of Power by V 📚 I enjoyed the first trilogy set in this world, but I’m going to stop with this new series. Weirdly violent, and just more of the same in terms of plot and characters.