Finished reading: On Beauty by Zadie Smith 📚Fun, thought-provoking novel by a present-day master.
Finished reading: In the Matter of Color by A. Leon Higginbotham 📚 Excellent though dense non-fiction about Colonial laws related to slavery. Our country has a foundation of sand, and evil sand at that.
Finished reading: In the Shadow of the Dam by Elizabeth M. Sharpe 📚Excellent non-fiction about the evils of capitalism back in the 19th century, 150 people died when a poorly built dam gave way.
Finished reading: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 📚excellent novel set in Essex England. Love and loss, well told. Morris dancing plays a pivotal role at one point.
Currently reading: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 📚
Currently reading: Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders by Andy Stanton-Henry 📚
Currently reading: Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield 📚
Currently reading: In the Matter of Color by A. Leon Higginbotham 📚
Currently reading: On Beauty by Zadie Smith 📚
Currently reading: Lifehouse by Adam Greenfield 📚
Currently reading: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 📚
Finished reading: Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚Very fun novella, possession by demons but that’s a good thing.
Currently reading: The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd 📚
Finished reading: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates 📚Short YA novel, written decades ago, about an enslaved person who bought his way out and founded a lecture series in NH. The book is severely dated in many, many ways.
Finished reading: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 📚I didn’t love it, found it tedious in spots. Interesting apocalyptic space fiction.
Finished reading: Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore 📚Interesting non-fiction about the “early modern” period, which I learned is sort of 1300-1650, and how often magic was a part of everyday life.
Finished reading: Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 📚Excellent non-fiction about two enslaved people who successfully escaped, and how much America and the Constitution stood in their way. I learned a lot.
Currently reading: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 📚
Currently reading: In the Shadow of the Dam by Elizabeth M. Sharpe 📚
Currently reading: Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
Currently reading: Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 📚This month’s Library book group read.
Quit reading: Household Saints by Francine Prose 📚Long, boring, and child deaths. No reason to keep reading it.
Finished reading: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 📚Fun! Pirates who happen to be middle-aged, out in the Indian Ocean during an interesting period of time. Magic, too.
Currently reading: Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore 📚
Currently reading: Household Saints by Francine Prose 📚