Finished reading: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 📚after much delay, finally finished this one. I appreciate the realism but don’t love her books.
Currently reading: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 📚
Currently reading: The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester 📚
Finished reading: True Biz by Sara Novic 📚a good read.
Finished reading: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 📚Wonderful! Alexander von Humboldt takes his rightful place in the naturalist heavens.
Quit reading: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 📚
Quit reading: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian 📚
Currently reading: True Biz by Sara Novic 📚
Finished reading: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 📚Excellent, dreamy novel about life in the modern world. Poignant without being maudlin.
Currently reading: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 📚
Finished reading: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) 📚I enjoyed this translation.
Finished Reading American Mermaid by Julia Langbein 📚Another silly novel, supposedly about wealth and privilege but mostly just silly.
Currently reading: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian 📚
Currently reading: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 📚
Finished reading: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen 📚Ugh. Sort of a romance novel with a bit of Alice Hoffman-esque magic, but overall pretty silly.
Well, one of us is enjoying my broken leg. 11 more days until I can get out of bed and try putting weight on it. But who’s counting?
Finished reading: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry 📚A good novel presenting many of Berry’s thoughts on agriculture, economy, small towns, and community.
Currently reading: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen 📚
I’m loving this album of recordings made at spring ponds (think frogs) accompanied by bass clarinet. A sort of natural jazz.
Secret Songs of Ponds by David Rothenberg 🎵
Finished reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚Took me more than a year but I finished this million-word novel. It’s interesting for its 275-year-old perspective on virtue, gender roles, rape, class, colonialism, privilege, etc. Worth reading especially when you’re stuck in bed with a broken leg.
Finished reading: The Long Haul by Ryan Prior 📚excellent overview of Long COVID and the development of patient-centered medical research.
Currently reading: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry 📚
Quit reading: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 📚 I hate this book and guess what, I don’t have to finish it. I found myself cringing at every word.
Currently reading: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 📚
Finished reading: The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts 📚excellent non-fiction about growing up poor in the American south.