Well, after my diagnosis I had a doctor’s note to avoid running for a while and complete latitude to feel sorry for myself and pamper myself as much as possible. So I had a lovely dinner at a really nice Italian restaurant (walked there so I could have wine), whined for sympathy at the family zoom call, and spent sunny days ambling about to the Seaside library, bookstore, bagel place, pancake place, Thai place…, and I spent rainy days petting the cats and calling for food delivery. I must say I do convalescing well.
At the end of the week my friends came home from Japan, so I heard their fascinating stories, woke up to delicious omelets being prepared by my jet lagged host, and then drove home to reunite with my own cats, who were desperately in need of petting and had been completely neglected by my house mates, who never even fed them.
Goodreads thinks I am currently reading 65 books, but I’ve finished a few of those so I think I’m trending downward. The library thinks I have 83 physical books checked out. In unrelated news, I knocked off ten more libraries on my KCLS branches quest; I think I have three or four left (I’m not sure if one is a branch or another set of lockers).
Books Completed Oct 3 - 9
Toll of Honor, David Weber. This one is for dedicated completists; it’s retelling some things from a different point of view and using that to give us some back stories of characters who get popular later. Skimming is important in this series as things tend to be explained several times to make sure the reader is keeping up; it’s a sprawling story so I guess that makes sense. I had fun and didn’t have to concentrate much, so it was a perfect read while petting a cat is waiting for a cat to come in from the patio when I wanted to close the back door.
War of the Wind, Victoria Williamson. A Cybils nominee I went back to finish. I liked the setting and the band of misfits, but I thought it took a while for the protagonist to get over being a huge pain and that the ending slid a few to many things into neat packages. Also I’m still mad about the dog.
Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger. Although I didn’t love this as much as some as I felt the writing was competent but not inspired, I did enjoy learning about what home economics and and has been, and what it could be, and why the patriarchy continues to try to undermine and devalue what it sees as women’s stuff.
Books Started
Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger. Recommended by Miss Yingling.
Redshirts, John Scalzi. Foolscap monthly pick.
Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice. Sword and Laser monthly pick.
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See. River Runs Under It monthly pick.
The Stars Did Wander Darkly, Colin Meloy. Talbot Hill Challenge: Scary Book
Bookmarks Moved
The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson
Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum
Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer
Year of the Tiger, Alice Wong
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Lepunia: Kingdom of the Gallopers, Kevin Ford
Come See the Fair, Gabriel Savin
Arabella of Venus, David Levine
An Exchange of Hostages, Susan R. Matthews
Hundredfold, Anthony Esolen
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
This Tender Land, William Kent Kruger
Bookmarks Languished
I have not given up on these! Ignore all evidence!
Into the Vast Nothing, J. Bruno
True Colors, Abby Cooper.
South Riding, Winifred Holtby
Calypso, Oliver K Langmead
The Hunger and the Dusk, G. Willow Wilson
Speculative Whiteness, Jordan S. Carroll
Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum
Death in the Spires, K.J. Charles
So Let Them Burn, Kamilah Cole
Coyote Dreams, C.E. Murphy
I’m Nobody, Who Are You?, Emily Dickinson
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
Heavenly Tyrants, Xiran Jay Zhao
Read Dangerously, Azar Nifisi
Hearts Still Beating, Brooke Archer
The Farwalker’s Quest, John Sensel
One Jump Ahead, Mark L Von Name
Some Sunny Day, Adam Baron
Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Last Witchfinder, James K. Morrow. Scintillation book club.
Picture Books, Poems, and Short Stories
None.
Books on Slow Mode
Home Comforts, Cheryl Mendleson. I read one section a day. Currently learning laundry details for rayon..
At the Feet of the Sun, Victoria Goddard. Relationships are affirmed.
50 Great Poets, ed. Milton Crane. Mail bribe.
The Writer's Stance: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines, Dorothy U. Seyler. Mail bribe.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon. I’m in the end game and I think I missed some things.
War QCross, Marie Lu. Mail bribe.
Teaching With Caldecott Books, Scholastic books. Mail bribe. I like that I remember these books.
Books Acquired
I only notice when I’m caught up.
Future Plans
This is for the actual future, so weeks beyond the books in this post. It is also probably wrong.
I am reading:
- Book I own: Wolf Hall
- Library Book: Framed In Death
- Hugo Finalist: So Let Them Burn
- Foolscap Book Club Book: Wooing the Witch King
- Sword and Laser Club Book: Floating Hotel
- Scintillation Book Club: Semiosis
- Cloudy Book Club: What Feasts At Night
- Torches and Pitchfork Book Club: Moon of the Crusted Snow
- River Runs Under It Book Club: Barricuda
- Talbot Hill Book: Animal Stories
- Friday Book Club: Some Sherlock Holmes pastiche
- Romance Book Club: Doctor romance (Hello Stranger)
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