Finished reading: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel 📚Non-fiction about a Black woman, freed in the 1840s but then kidnapped and re-enslaved for 20 years who was then able to receive a pitiably small financial recompense from the enslaver.
Currently reading: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 📚
Currently reading: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 📚
Finished reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason 📚A wonderful novel. I immediately started to read it for a second time, to catch more of the nuance. New England gothic, some elements of horror but only in service to the story.
Quit reading: Wolfsong by TJ Klune 📚 A novel that takes ten times as many words as necessary to say anything.
Currently reading: Wolfsong by TJ Klune 📚
Currently reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason 📚
Finished reading: Escape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚A very silly book but I’m a completionist for KSR. If you have visited Kathmandu, then the descriptions of the city feel very true. Brought back good memories of a 1981 trip for me.
Misty lake for my morning swim
Currently reading: Escape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Finished reading: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez 📚A very fun summer read. A bit indulgent but in a direction that I have to appreciate. Also about artists, art history, and coming of age in the 2000s.
Currently reading: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel 📚
My husband’s son is visiting from the Netherlands. We’re having lovely summer weather. There’s lots of swimming and hiking and eating of summer fruits. Overall, a good time is being had by all.
Finished reading: This Other Eden by Paul Harding 📚An excellent novel. There is child abuse, which normally means I stop reading a novel, but I can see that it was integral to the story and the overall message of the book is both beautiful and sad. A beautiful island Maine setting in early 1900s.
Currently Reading: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez 📚
Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚A very fun sci-fi / detective noir read. Interesting world building, fun characters and a good story. Highly recommended.
Qui reading: How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry 📚good characters but ultimately too boring to finish.
Currently reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚
Finished reading: A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab 📚not as good as the other two in this trilogy but now I’m ready for book 4 which I hear is really fun.
Finished reading: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris 📚Such a beautiful graphic novel. Totally worth the $45 to own it. I expect to re-read it regularly.
Finished reading: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 📚Fun summer reading: faeries and Norway/Iceland in a somewhat academic environment.
Currently reading: The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan 📚Book Club book, due in a week so I’d better get cracking!
Currently reading: Strong Songs of the Dead by Th Metzger 📚a book of stories about my favorite hobby – Shape Note singing, also known as the Sacred Harp.
I want everyone to know this. If you structure your Google searches with &udm=14, your results have no AI and look like old-school Google. I’ve set up Alfred to use this as my default Google search: www.google.com/search{query}&udm=14 or you can tack “&udm=14” to any Google search.
Currently reading: A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab 📚