What are you reading the week of February 25, 2023?

I wasn't in much of a mood to read this past week. I did read Maigret's Secret last weekend. But I even had difficulty maintaining focus on that.

Finished Warship 2021. 80% done with Moscow Monumental. Olympus Bound will come after that. Will probably get to Bernd & Hilla Becher.

Moved Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester to the head of the line.

Finished The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow collection) by Alix E. Harrow and started What the Dead Know (Into Shadow collection) by Nghi Vo.

I’m very much enjoying a reread of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small. I was a teenager the first time I read it in the 70s and I’m probably finding it even more delightful now.

>4 Copperskye: I loved the Herriot books when I was younger. So much so, in fact, that guided by the book James Herriot's Yorkshire, I went to Yorkshire in my mid-20s and saw all of the Herriot sights - the surgery, the church where James and Helen married, etc. It was beautiful, a trip I'll never forget.

I'm reading Babel by R.F. Kuang - the touchstone has her name spelled incorrectly. It's excellent. Moody fantasy, alternate history, depths of research, what a wonderful novel. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I've formed a deep liking for the book.

I've always got an audiobook going. Right now I'm listening to The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, which, of course, is excellent. This WWII novel is set at Bletchley, the code-breaking centre in England. The narrator has a lovely voice.

Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson.

Finished Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves. Enjoyed it, Started Count Zero by William Gibson.

>5 ahef1963: Oh, wow! I would have loved that! I'd still love to do it.

Finished:
What the Dead Know (Into Shadow collection) vy Nghi Vo - meh
Undercover (Into Shadow collection) by Tamsyn Muir - meh
The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow collection) vy Veronica G. Henry - liked
Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow collection) by Garth Nix - loved

I finished Life and Times of Michael K. Out of a life of poverty, disability, and incarceration, grows an affirmation of life outside of a cage and in concert with the earth. An intense, though short, book

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English
"First published in 1978, this classic history, now revised and updated, brilliantly exposes the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. This edition of For Her Own Good provides today's readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism." from Goodreads.

Lengthy read but so very interesting!

I'm reading and escaping with The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.

First audio for March via Libby ~

Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson Mystery, #1)
by Amanda Flower
(this tale takes place in my area of MA)

>5 ahef1963: & >6 mnleona: I didn't read the Herriot books until a few years back. Sometime in my late 50s or early 60s. But I still found them extremely enjoyable.

I'm currently making my slow way through Civil Rights Movement leader Andrew Young's voluminous memoir/autobiography, An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. It's good, but Young's writing is detailed and methodical. This is not a surprise, as it's now Young describes his own organizational style, as well. Now that I'm nearing the halfway point (the book is 533 pages all told) and the Birmingham sit-ins have begun, the narrative has become very interesting.

Finished Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi by John Scalzi. Fun read. Added The Race by Nina Allan to my rotation.

>13 Molly3028:, I read a library copy of the novel. It's interesting to see Emily's life before she became a published poet.

Added Uncharted Waters (Getaway collection) by Sally Hepworth to my rotation,

The Great Santini
Pat Conroy
4/5 stars
This novel is based on the author's father, the mercurial "Great Santini'", a Marine pilot. They led a nomad's life with having to move from town to town when their father had to go to different bases. Conroy relates the ups and downs of Marine life, not to mention the stress of having to kowtow to all his father's demands. Wonderfully written! 1976

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