Finished reading: The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward 📚A good read, interesting history of inoculation and vaccination in the smallpox era.
Still reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚Perfect “about to fall asleep” reading because nothing ever happens. I’ve been reading it for weeks and still have 80+ hours ahead of me. And I’m enjoying it but am glad I wasn’t a 19th-century female.
Currently reading: The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 📚
Currently reading: The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar 📚
Finished reading: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett 📚Such a fun novel! It’s about death, addiction, depression, and a few more dark subjects but somehow the whole is light and life-affirming.
Finished reading: Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder 📚Worth reading, stories of the unhoused. But woefully short on solutions.
I’m planning to do a personal retreat in June. I’m at a crossroads in my work and want to take some time away to think about how I want to spend the next 7 years before retirement. I have some good questions to ponder, but would love to hear what’s worked for others.
Amazing “smorgastarta“ made at our local general store for takeout dinner this week!
The NIH poured $1 billion into long Covid research, with little to show for it
Currently reading: Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder 📚
Currently reading: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett 📚
Finished reading: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 📚I didn’t love it. It’s mostly a book about the outcomes of bad parenting.
Finished reading: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik 📚Occasionally annoying because the writing can be so repetitive, but overall satisfying and fun.
Currently reading: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 📚 Oops, I may be reading too many books at the same time! It’s still winter where I live so that’s my excuse.
Currently reading: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik 📚
Finished reading: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 📚A murder mystery with social commentary and very well done. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker 📚A lovely read. Nothing happens except that our barely visible author watches several peregrine hawks hunt their prey day after day during an English winter and spring. The writing is amazing.
Currently reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚
Currently reading: The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik 📚
How do I turn my cat into an instrument? Can’t but I’m sharing this photo for the challenge anyway.
A bit of spice on this sourdough crust pizza
Currently reading: Collected Fiction by Michael Chabon 📚
Currently reading: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 📚
Finished reading: Fieldwork by Iliana Regan 📚Interesting, if self-involved, non-fiction about living in the midwestern woods, foraging, running a Michelin-starred restaurant, while having grown up in trauma.
Currently reading: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker 📚