Currently reading: Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott 📚
Finished Reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚Wonderful post-apocalypse fiction. This isn’t usually a favorite genre but this one is well done, great characters, good story, and interesting thoughtful points to be made.
Currently reading: Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart 📚
Currently reading: Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf 📚
Currently Reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚
Finished reading: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 📚Oddly disappointed. I had liked Deacon King Kong but felt like I was missing something with this one. Was there a deeper message that passed me by?
Currently reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 📚
Finished reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚I’m on a Greek myths kick so this was a good addition. A nice meditation on the pluses and minuses of immortality.
Currently reading: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 📚
Currently reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚
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.