Lisa Sieverts

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:52:17 -0400

Quit reading: Life Class by Pat Barker 📚Couldn’t manufacture interest in the characters, and not enough history to be interesting.

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:51:39 -0400

Currently reading: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 📚

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:08:52 -0400

Finished reading: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 📚Surprisingly good book about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, focused on the lives of the crew. I also learned a lot about the economics of the car and steel industries in the Midwest, the history of the Great Lakes shipping, and more.

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:10:42 -0400

I still love the hemisphericviews.com podcast. @HemisphericViews @canion et al. You guys make me laugh out loud regularly, and nod along as I say, “Yes, that’s exactly what I think, too.” Or not!

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:06:05 -0400

Currently reading: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 📚

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:05:21 -0400

Finished reading: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 📚Excellent, devastating novel about South Africa under apartheid.

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:49:12 -0400

Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚Fantastic novel. Yes, it’s probably about another planet, but more than that, it’s a lesson in philosophy and what it means to be human. I didn’t realize how old it is, and I’m glad it’s being rediscovered.

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:09:45 -0400

Currently reading: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 📚

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:01:33 -0400

Currently reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:00:59 -0400

Currently reading: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 📚

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:07:51 -0400

All the stupid April Fool’s stuff on the Internet bores me. Anyway, this is your heads up to believe even less of what you read on the Internet than usual.

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:06:37 -0400

Finished reading: The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson 📚A beautiful novel. A bit heavy-handed in its politics, but I share them so appreciated it. I learned a lot about Pacific Island life. Great characters, good story. Plenty to think about.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:24:08 -0400

Finished reading: To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 📚I loved this book. New Hampshire, where I live, plays a part in the story, but it’s the “mystery” that is interesting, and the meditation on talent, personality, and luck is fascinating.

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:04:52 -0400

Finished reading: Many Lagoons by Ralph Varady 📚Written in the late 1950s and therefore dated in many ways, but also interesting. An American lives on a South Pacific island for a year. I’m also reading The Wayfinder and was interested to see a 1950s description of the same setting.

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:03:05 -0400

Currently reading: To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 📚

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:54:49 -0400

Finished reading: The Book of Difficult Fruit Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) by Kate Lebo 📚Excellent. It’s about everything.

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:16:27 -0400

Currently reading: The Book of Difficult Fruit Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) by Kate Lebo 📚

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:15:57 -0400

Finished reading: The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne 📚Nice novel about living in Kurdistan for a year, teaching English. Interesting characters, I learned a lot about Kurdish culture.

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:14:32 -0400

Finished reading: My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem 📚Interesting guidebook with exercises on how to heal from generational trauma and recognize internalized racism.

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:29:15 -0400

Currently reading: And the Roots of Rhythm Remain by Joe Boyd 📚sick with COVID, perfect time to tackle 900 page, quite readable book on music.

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:40:03 -0400

Finished reading: Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen 📚long and tedious. Supposedly a horror novel but I found it good for putting me to sleep.

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:39:03 -0400

Finished reading: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 📚hated it. Supposedly about living as a teenage autistic math savant and I guess the author did a good job maintaining voice

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:42:48 -0400

Currently reading: Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell 📚

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:41:32 -0400

Currently reading: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 📚

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:01:11 -0400

Finished reading: 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen 📚Poignant and sad novel about Jewish families in England and France during WWII. I pray we never see those days again. Nicely written.