Currently reading: Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation 📚Reading it for our library’s book group.
Finished reading: 3 Shades of Blue by James Kaplan 📚Quite enjoyable non-fiction about Jazz, especially between about 1945 and 1965. It gave me lots of pointers toward excellent albums to put on my playlist.
Currently reading: Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick 📚
Finished reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 📚My continuing theme of retellings of Greek Myths. A wonderful novel focused on the love between Achilles and Patroclus. Well done.
Currently reading: Thelma by Marie Corelli 📚
Finished reading: Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf 📚I love this book. I learned stuff about the science of reading and the brain that I had never imagined. Also useful for its advice about mediating our digital culture and maintaining our deep reading skills.
Finished reading: Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart 📚We read this for our Library book group. An interesting meditation on culture, bad behavior, generational trauma, and growing up as an immigrant. Worth reading.
Currently reading: This Other Eden by Paul Harding 📚
Finished reading: Medusa by Jessie Burton 📚my continuing theme of modern books using Greek myths. Kinda liked it.
Currently reading: James by Percival Everett 📚
Finished reading: Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott 📚not as brilliant as Thistlefoot but an enjoyable set of short stories by this imaginative writer.
Currently reading: Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott 📚
Finished Reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚Wonderful post-apocalypse fiction. This isn’t usually a favorite genre but this one is well done, great characters, good story, and interesting thoughtful points to be made.
Currently reading: Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart 📚
Currently reading: Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf 📚
Currently Reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚
Finished reading: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 📚Oddly disappointed. I had liked Deacon King Kong but felt like I was missing something with this one. Was there a deeper message that passed me by?
Currently reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 📚
Finished reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚I’m on a Greek myths kick so this was a good addition. A nice meditation on the pluses and minuses of immortality.
Currently reading: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 📚
Currently reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚
Finished reading: The Romantic by William Boyd 📚excellent novel based on a real life. Cashel Ross, like Zelig, was everywhere in the 1800s.
Currently reading: 3 Shades of Blue by James Kaplan 📚
Finished reading: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand 📚overwrought, sort of a fantasy novel but overall too full of itself.
Currently reading: The Romantic by William Boyd 📚