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 📚
Finished reading: Babel by R Huang📚OK but not awesome. Boring characters but interesting world building with many lessons for our world.
Finished reading: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 📚enjoyed it but only because I am a Graeber completionist. It read like his notes, rather than an actual book.
Snow storm! SW New Hampshire, USA.
My small region of hill towns in New Hampshire is seeing over 30 inches (76 cm) of snow. Drop down a few 100 feet and those folks are seeing about 12 inches. Fun shoveling day tomorrow! But we are warm and dry, running the generator for an hour to heat everything up before bed.
Big storm, lotsa snow, no electricity. Fun times!
Currently reading: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 📚
Currently reading: Fieldwork by Iliana Regan 📚