Currently Reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚
Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚A silly novel. The best character is the small town on the Washington coast.
Still reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚I think I started reading this in January and have been diligently making progress every week but I’m still only a third of the way through! At this point, I’ll keep going just so I can say I finished it, hopefully, within the same year I started it.
Finished reading: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 📚So fun. An intentionally gothic tale, good characters.
Currently reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚
Finished reading: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 📚Couldn’t finish it, too brutal.
Currently reading: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 📚
Currently reading: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 📚
Currently reading: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 1) by Tamsyn Muir 📚
Finished reading: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚I loved it, especially the first part. By the third part, it was getting a bit heavy-handed but its intentions were admirable. Dystopian science fiction, with a strong dash of hope.
Finished reading: Outline by Rachel Cusk 📚Interesting writing with mostly unlikeable characters.
We put on a big event yesterday after a year of planning. Lots of people came, and there were many conversations between people who hadn’t seen each other in 3+ years. Great music and good dancing. It’s taken much of my time, especially these last weeks. I’m glad it happened and glad it’s over.
Currently reading: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚
Finished reading: Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal 📚 I loved this novel so much that I immediately began re-reading it to catch more of the nuance. Three young people go to painting school to learn trompe l’oeil. We all learn about observation.
Finished reading: The Story So Far by Jane Eklund 📚Erudite fiction about a relationship between a young woman and an older female author. Thought-provoking about the ways this might be the same as, or different from, an older man and a young woman.
Currently reading: Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal 📚
Currently reading: Outline by Rachel Cusk 📚
Finished reading: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 📚Such a fun fantasy novel! Great characters, both animal and human, living and dead. Highly recommended when you want something light and fun and satisfying.
Currently reading: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 📚
Currently reading: The Story So Far by Jane Eklund 📚
Finished reading: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond 📚not as fun a read but excellent and thoughtful. In how many ways is my personal comfort built on the backs of people in poverty? What do I do to keep it that way? We all can make choices to create a more equitable society.
Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 📚a fun read! Orc opens a cafe. Also interesting because it was a NaNoWriMo project, first novel, and became a social media hit.
Currently reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 📚
Finished reading: The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar 📚An all over the place book. Some parts were lyrical and insightful and I gasped at the perfection of the writing. Other parts were long-winded and self-indulgent. It’s about Mennonites. And about crossing cultures.
First morning of my two-day personal retreat and things are going well
