Finished reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 📚Beautiful little novel, a meditation on kindness, class (in many of this word’s meanings), mathematics, and found family.
Currently reading: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 📚
Currently reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 📚
Currently reading: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 📚Even the first chapters are wonderful. What do I mean when I say “you.” What do you mean when you say “I.” And other meditations on thinking and writing.
Finished reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚Hey, we can electrify everything. And the net use of energy in the US would be halved.
Finished reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan 📚Nice little novel, a little heavy-handed in its message but still worth reading.
Currently reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚
Currently reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Lent by Jo Walton 📚excellent novel, history and fantasy adjacent, about a 15th C. monk. Meditations on how to make a difference and live a good life, while knowing that life is also futile.
Finished reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚Not my favorite book of his, felt a bit unfinished, but still worth reading.
Currently reading: Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World by Brandon Keim 📚
Currently reading: Lent by Jo Walton 📚
Finished reading: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 📚Sometimes Elizabeth Strout annoys me but I really liked this one. It’s a good 2025 novel, describing our time in a way that feels accurate, albeit for white upper-middle-class New Englanders.
Currently reading: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 📚
Finished reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 📚Worth reading.
Finished reading: Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 📚Kinda fun, slightly romantic novel. You learn a lot about dancing at the Bolshoi and the jewelry auction business.
Currently reading: Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 📚
Finished reading: Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud 📚I really enjoyed this non-fiction book about a woman’s life as a geologist. Lots of great geologic insights in addition to some good life lessons.
Currently reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚 Our April Library book club read.
Finished reading: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny 📚A pretty good read about two botanists who rafted the Colorado River through the Glen and Grand Canyons before the dams were built.
Finished reading: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 📚 Annoying but also very readable, to the point where I stayed up until 3 AM finishing it (ugh). Way too much “I love them but they couldn’t possibly care for me.” I guess this is a Rom-antasy? Some very fun characters, interesting world.
Currently reading: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 📚
Currently reading: Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud 📚
Finished reading: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth 📚 This is one of my favorite authors and this novel did not disappoint, even though I did not trust the narrator. It was interesting to learn quite a bit about chamber music, interesting to consider as I begin my second year of fiddle lessons.
Finished reading: 142 Ostriches by April Davila 📚Fun novel, sort of a coming-of-age story. Good characters, and you learn a lot about ostriches. The end is a bit of a muddle but I’m willing to forgive because it was a good ride.