Finished reading: The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Gunter Grass 📚Started reading it in February, finished in April. I could only handle 10-20 pages at a time of these 1000 pages. But absolutely worth reading.
Currently reading: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Finished reading: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 📚Well-written but traumatic to read: child abuse, unfaithful marriage, people unable to speak to each other. I was tense the whole time I was reading it.
Currently reading: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 📚
Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚I have to say I didn’t like it much. I got tired of reading about the “Ninety-eighth Western Hall.” I felt like I was missing some sort of obvious allegory but couldn’t see it. I know many others liked this book, and of course, I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
Finished reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚
Currently reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Finished reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚I had high hopes for this book but ended up skimming through it. Every 50 pages or so I gave it another chance, but was again turned off by sophomoric complaining. Yeah, the past was terrible for women and the present isn’t so great but that doesn’t mean we need a book that says the same thing over and over and over, page after page. Could easily have been a 25-page monograph and then would have been a much more interesting and useful piece of writing.
Finished reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚Another novel that I stopped reading because I hated all the characters. I picked this up because I loved Ministry For The Future so much, but no go.
Currently reading: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 📚
Finished reading: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 📚Definitely worth reading. At first, I didn’t like this novel. So many unlikeable characters! But eventually I realized that it’s kind of the point. The protagonist and the 3-year-old make up for all the other unlikeable characters. I should confess that I stayed up most of the night finishing it, so there is that, too.
Currently reading: The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Günter Grass 📚
Finished reading: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚 Totally worth reading. It’s a good companion to The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Why forests are worth saving, and why we should think of trees as more than a product. And also, love, loyalty, art, science, parents, and children.
Currently reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚
Finished reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Finished reading: Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander 📚 An 800 page slog. The one chapter about scientists and creative breakthroughs is quite interesting.
Currently reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Finished reading: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum 📚
Finished reading: The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine 📚 I’m going to give this one an “ugh.” Unlikeable characters. Dumb story. The only lesson seems to be “don’t tell journalists something that you don’t want published widely” which, as a daughter of Washington, DC, I already knew.
Currently reading: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚
Currently reading: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum 📚
Currently Reading: The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine 📚
Finished reading: Harvest by Jim Crace 📚Dark and depressing, albeit well written. It’s a novel about the time in England when the economy switched from agrarian commons to capitalist exploitation.