Finished reading: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott 📚what a treat! Fun, deep, meaningful, imaginative and yet also a retelling of old tales. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede 📚A very silly book but perfect bedtime reading. No suspense and thus conducive to falling asleep.
Really interesting opinion piece in the Washington Post today about a bi-partisan committee getting stuff done and the modern facilitation techniques that helped.
Nice blog post about “feeling about feeling” instead of thinking about feeling.
Currently reading: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott 📚
Finished reading: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn 📚Overall a satisfying novel set in England and France during WWII, though heavy-handed in places.
The pandemic after the pandemic: Long covid haunts millions of people
-20.6 degrees F (-29.2 C) in southern New Hampshire US. Fierce winds all night, unknown stuff banging around. It felt as though the planet were trying to kill us. Which, as humans, we probably deserve at this point.
Currently reading: The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede 📚
Quit reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚it’s just too brutal. I know all the abuse and drug addiction is real but I couldn’t keep reading it. So I will simply admire this novel from afar.
Currently reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚
Nice article about the good skills learned as a theatre kid. I wasn’t one until a bit in college but admired the kids who were theatre kids in high school.
Finished reading: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) by Becky Chambers 📚Such a sweet, fun sci fi romp, like all of her books.
Currently reading: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn 📚
Finished reading: Chants Democratic by Sean Wilentz 📚Excellent American labor history 1780-1850 book. But depressing because we’ve been fighting financial inequality with the same language for 200 years.
The Town plow truck slid into a power pole last night. Driver and truck are fine but given the number of outages due to snow in my state (NH), it may be a while before we have electricity and internet again.
Currently reading: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) by Becky Chambers 📚
Finished reading: Lark Ascending by Silas House 📚Similar to Station Eleven but clumsier.
Finished reading: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik 📚I found parts tedious and way too much plot was recapitulated from book 1 AND I enjoyed it. Looking forward to book 3.
Finished reading: Zorrie by Laird Hunt 📚A sweet midwestern novel.
Finished reading: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 📚I think what’s interesting is the perspective on religion in its time.
Finished reading: Ducks by Kate Beaton 📚a wonderful graphic novel. I used to visit Cape Breton and marveled at the stories of people working in Alberta. She tells the truth.
Currently reading: Zorrie by Laird Hunt 📚
I watched both seasons while sick in bed with COVID two weeks ago. I rarely watch any TV so was surprised at how much I enjoyed Slow Horses. I’m looking forward to Season 3.
Currently reading: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 📚