Finished reading: Homegoing: A novel by Yaa Gyasi 📚Definitely worth reading. It contains scenes of abuse and violence but only in service to the story and the history. Half-sisters in the 1700s, one stays in Africa, one is enslaved and taken to America. It’s the story of all the generations to now.
Currently reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚
Finished reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚Worth reading. A good tale about how the historian gets to tell the history. Plenty to think about.
Currently reading: Homegoing: A novel by Yaa Gyasi 📚
Finished reading: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams 📚by the author of, and adjacent to The Dictionary of Lost Words. A sweet novel, set during WW1 in Oxford, England. I enjoyed it.
Currently reading: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams 📚
Finished reading: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery 📚What a sweet, delicious, thought-provoking book. My attitude toward turtles has been changed from mostly indifferent to “Wow, Turtles!” This book will also serve as a good history of what pandemic time was like.
Currently reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚
Finished reading: Women Talking by Miriam Toews 📚such a strange book. I’m thinking I should watch the movie.
Finished reading: The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett 📚the last Disc World book, sweet and poignant for that reason.
Currently reading: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery 📚
Currently reading: The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett 📚
Finished reading: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 📚I like the author’s writing style and interesting takes on redoing fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty. But I was disturbed that the villain here is what sounds like a severely autistic child.
Finished reading: The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland 📚Highly recommended. We’re all on the path to a disability. This book talks about how to approach using this knowledge, based on the author’s gradual ascent toward blindness. Lots of good information about the blind community, too.
Currently reading: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 📚
Finished reading: The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec 📚A fun read, mild magic fantasy set in pre-1000 AD Norway.
Currently reading: The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland 📚I’m only a little way into this and am already impressed by how good it is. The author is losing his vision and has many interesting things to say.
Finished reading: Learning Korean: Recipes for Home Cooking by Peter Serpico 📚Saying again how much I love this new cookbook on how to do Korean home cooking.
Currently reading: The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec 📚
Finished reading: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici 📚So thought-provoking. Not being a Marxist scholar myself, I had to catch up to even understand the concept of Primitive Accumulation, but overall this is an excellent and interesting read.
Finished reading: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman 📚I didn’t love it. There’s an odd plot involving sex with Nathaniel Hawthorne. There’s a bunch of heavy-handed opinion masquerading as dialogue. Overall, not as magical as other of her books.
Finished reading: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 📚interesting! Slightly feminist anti-fascist space opera with time slips.
Currently reading: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman 📚
Currently reading: Women Talking by Miriam Toews 📚
Currently reading: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 📚