Currently reading: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 📚
Currently reading: White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link 📚
Finished reading: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 📚quite good. A Shakespearean ending that takes your breath away but also makes sense as a commentary on our late-capitalism world.
Currently reading: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 📚
Currently reading: Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson 📚
Finished reading: The Years by Annie Ernaux 📚This took me a while to get through but in the end, I agree that it’s a masterpiece. It manages to be the story of the past 60 years for a white, educated woman and yet general, too. She captures so much in so few words. Translated from the French.
Finished reading: Loot by Tania James 📚An excellent novel, set in India and France, touches on history, colonialism, growing up bi-racial, and more heavy topics while also being an enjoyable read. Highly recommended.
Currently reading: Poor and of Lo Make, the Diary of Abner Sanger (late 1700s) by 📚
Currently reading: Loot by Tania James 📚
Finished reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚a fun hard-boiled detective story with ghosts and ghouls.
Currently reading Resist by Lee Schneider @leeS 📚
Finished reading: Homegoing: A novel by Yaa Gyasi 📚Definitely worth reading. It contains scenes of abuse and violence but only in service to the story and the history. Half-sisters in the 1700s, one stays in Africa, one is enslaved and taken to America. It’s the story of all the generations to now.
Currently reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚
Finished reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚Worth reading. A good tale about how the historian gets to tell the history. Plenty to think about.
Currently reading: Homegoing: A novel by Yaa Gyasi 📚
Finished reading: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams 📚by the author of, and adjacent to The Dictionary of Lost Words. A sweet novel, set during WW1 in Oxford, England. I enjoyed it.
Currently reading: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams 📚
Finished reading: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery 📚What a sweet, delicious, thought-provoking book. My attitude toward turtles has been changed from mostly indifferent to “Wow, Turtles!” This book will also serve as a good history of what pandemic time was like.
Currently reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚
Finished reading: Women Talking by Miriam Toews 📚such a strange book. I’m thinking I should watch the movie.
Finished reading: The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett 📚the last Disc World book, sweet and poignant for that reason.
Currently reading: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery 📚
Currently reading: The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett 📚
Finished reading: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 📚I like the author’s writing style and interesting takes on redoing fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty. But I was disturbed that the villain here is what sounds like a severely autistic child.
Finished reading: The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland 📚Highly recommended. We’re all on the path to a disability. This book talks about how to approach using this knowledge, based on the author’s gradual ascent toward blindness. Lots of good information about the blind community, too.