Finished reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 📚I’m committed to the entire Neopolitan Quartet of books. Judging by this one, it’s going to be intense. She writes so well about being a girl growing up in the early 1960s in a very macho Italy.
Maroon #mbmay
Pot #mbmay
Bloom #mbmay
Currently reading: The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton 📚
The union of my two favorite Slavic salads: Herring/beet and chicken/potato/caper. #mbmay
Visitors! My 27-year-old step-son and 3 of his friends are here from The Netherlands! It’s so exciting to have houseguests and to be cooking for more than two people. Korean chicken last night. Pizza tonight, thanks to a friend with one of those Ooni things, or the other one.
Woke up at 4AM so went for a long, dawn walk. #earth #mbmay
Experimental #mbmay
Finished reading: Silverview by John Le Carré 📚another quick but rewarding read. Not the best Le Carre ever but lovely to read after mourning his death a year ago.
Finished reading: Bruno’s Challenge by Martin Walker 📚a tasty pleasure. Quick and easy short stories about a cooking policeman in rural France.
This #switch is open #mbmay
Quit reading: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 📚the main character is awful and I don’t want to read about her anymore. Too bad, because I loved the author’s prior novel.
Currently reading: The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell 📚
Currently reading: Silverview by John Le Carré 📚
Catastrophic failure of UPS today. But it’s served loyally for 9 years.
Currently reading: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 📚
Currently reading: Bruno’s Challenge by Martin Walker 📚
Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚Quite good. Reminds me of David Mitchell in that it’s not the sequel to prior books but the same characters appear. Definitely a COVID-19 book.
Currently reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 📚
Currently reading: Jena 1800 by Peter Neumann 📚
Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Thinking about quitting : The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚I don’t like the characters. Should I keep going?
Finished reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚can’t say I liked it. Interesting ideas about time travel but ugly takes on race and gender, the maternal instinct, and who is worth saving.