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.
Finished reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚a monster of a book but worth reading as it posits an alternative history that isn’t all about so-called great men and inevitable predatory capitalism.
Currently reading: Fixing Your Scrum by Ryan Ripley 📚
Finished reading: Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddie 📚so good!
Currently reading: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚
Currently reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚what a perfect novel. I loved everything about it, especially the way it’s an ode to libraries.
Finished reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚a good book for people with chronic illness and those who love them.
Quit reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚Reading about over-privileged white people behaving badly does not appeal to me. Child sexual abuse.
Currently reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚
Currently reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚
Currently reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚
Quit reading: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton 📚At about the mid-point, I realized that I hated this book. It’s both pointless and didactic. Moreover, the story is told using 10,000 “and then this happened” transitions.
Finished reading: Great Circle: A novel by Maggie Shipstead 📚It’s an interesting story but I didn’t love it. Rape, child abuse, generational trauma.
Currently reading: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton 📚
Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚a sad story, I feel as though the author dashed this one off when he was really mad at that crazy, orange president.
Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚Hmm, I didn’t love it the way others here have. I think I’m tired of non-fiction books that consist of a lot of quotes and ideas from other people that the author strings together.
Currently reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚