Currently reading: The Listeners by Leni Zumas 📚
Finished reading: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 📚I didn’t love it, but it is an interesting story of growing up as mixed race in post-apartheid South Africa. Includes harrowing stories of abuse.
Currently reading: Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 📚
Finished reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚 A good read. Dragged a bit in the middle but overall great characters and a good glimpse into a fictionalized version of life under the terrible institution of slavery.
Finished reading: Home by Marilynne Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Home by Marilynne Robinson 📚
Finished reading: Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚Beautiful writing. Perhaps an unreliable narrator? I believe that yes, someone should have intervened to prevent two people from becoming the lifelong unhoused.
Finished reading: My Century: A Novel by Günter Grass 📚 My continuing reading project into German/Polish post-WWII history. This one is quite accessible and informative without being pedantic.
Currently reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: The Arrest: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem 📚
Finished reading: All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski 📚 I’m reading books about Germany and Poland during and after WW2. This one is especially brutal and especially good. It’s the mundaneness of the banal cruelty that is giving me nightmares and that’s the point.
Currently reading: All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski 📚
Finished reading: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 📚 I loved most of this novel but felt that it fell apart at the end. Even so, it’s a contender for Great American Novel.
Currently reading: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 📚
Currently reading: The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem 📚
Finished reading: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel 📚 So fun. I loved this book. Read it twice over and expect to re-read it many times.
Finished reading: What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time by Dar Williams 📚 Definitely an interesting and thought-provoking read. This book provides support and some guidance for anyone who has ever wanted to build more community in their town.
Finished reading: The City We Became by N.K. Jemison 📚 A very fun read, highly recommended, especially if you are fond of the city of New York. I’m looking forward to the next books in this trilogy.
Finished reading: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor 📚 A fun and fast read with great characters.
Finished reading: Writers and Lovers by Lily King 📚 Oh, I really liked this book. At first, I was not grabbed by it. But as it went on, the more I loved it. The author does a masterful job of centering the book on women, rather than having everything be a reflection of men.
Currently reading: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson 📚
Currently reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin 📚
Currently reading: Writers & Lovers by Lily King 📚
Finished reading: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 📚 Horrible book. Sexist, racist, drug-addled ravings. Surely a book that has not stood the test of time. And why did so many male mid-century writers think that child rape was a good and sexy topic? My level of disgust is difficult to communicate.