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.
Currently reading: The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts 📚
Finished reading: The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham 📚
Finished reading: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 📚so good. A novel about a family in 2022. Wonderful characters, beautiful story.
Currently reading: The Long Haul by Ryan Prior 📚
Currently reading: The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham 📚
Finished reading: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 📚I liked it. Modern novel about art, creativity, times changing, race, gender, age. Could have been heavy-handed but mostly a light touch.
Finished reading: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng 📚a lovely novel set in Malaysia. Interesting characters, including Somerset Maugham.
Currently reading: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 📚
Broke my leg skiing two days ago. At least 6 weeks non-weight bearing. My world has shrunk down to a bedroom and bathroom, a walker and a shower seat. This is your reminder that you’re temporarily abled.
Currently reading: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng 📚
Finished reading: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker 📚A strange novel, a Trojan War story told from the POV of Briseis, Trojan royalty made a slave to Achilles. I’m haphazardly making my way through the Odyssey in the Emily Wilson translation, so this novel was useful for background.
Grateful that Micro.blog keeps track of my reading. I read 76 books in 2023. Favorites were Loot, Of Time and Turtles, The Country of the Blind, Learning Korean, The Peregrine, and Africa is Not a Country.
Still reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚I’ve been reading this novel for about a year and I’m only half-way through its 1800 pages.
Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚So fun! I see why people love these Murderbot diaries.
Finished reading: Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger 📚Definitely a good read. An American researches his Nazi grandfather. He notes how small decisions become big decisions. And that treating people with humanity is always the right thing to do, of course.
Iceland sunset at about 3:30 pm
Finished reading: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 📚worth reading. Interesting meditations on relationships, religion, science, faith. Set in England as science was being invented. Interesting characters.
Iceland view
