Finished reading: The Romantic by William Boyd 📚excellent novel based on a real life. Cashel Ross, like Zelig, was everywhere in the 1800s.

Currently reading: 3 Shades of Blue by James Kaplan 📚

Finished reading: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand 📚overwrought, sort of a fantasy novel but overall too full of itself.

Currently reading: The Romantic by William Boyd 📚

Finished reading: Circling the Sun by Paula McLain 📚A nice light novel about Beryl Markham.

Finished reading: A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason 📚wonderful 1970s science fiction. I didn’t want it to end.

Currently reading: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand 📚

Currently reading: Circling the Sun by Paula McLain 📚

Currently reading: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 📚

Currently reading: A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason 📚

Finished reading: Creation by Katherine Govier 📚excellent novel featuring Audubon in Labrador in 1833. Poetic, evocative and poignant, describing an Earth that no longer exists.

Finished reading: The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester 📚Excellent non-fiction about the history of precision manufacturing. Much more interesting than that might seem!

Quit reading: The Covenant of Water (Oprah’s Book Club) by Abraham Verghese 📚too much plot not enough interesting writing

Currently reading: Creation by Katherine Govier 📚

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.