Category: Reading

Book 24 and 25

Next Year in Havana. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. I contain multitudes.

22 – Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Essays about pop culture by a writer who is pretty much the same age as me.

Book 19 – Where the Crawdads Sing

This book was really really good. Beautiful descriptions of the landscape. Would recommend.

Book 18 – Great Influenza

Really really good. Really really scary. Prescient, and terrifying.

Book 17 – The Testaments

This was really good, even if I think they retconned a certain character. But the it’s Margaret Atwood’s character, she knows her best. It took me a minute to get the characters straight. But if you pay attention to the chapter headings, you can… Continue Reading “Book 17 – The Testaments”

Book 15 – Turtles All the Way Down

Interesting, short read. Nails OCD and anxiety. I generally like his books. I like several people who like Indianapolis, so it makes me think of them. Social distancing is increasing my reading.

Book 14 – Station Eleven

Two things about this book. (1j It is amazing. (2) reading it right now was a bad idea. I figured, I’d whistle past the graveyard and read a pandemic book. Um… yeah, about that.

Book Ten – The Immortalists

Eh, it was okay. I’ll read something better next.

New (To Me) Podcast

So I’ve been listening to a new podcast lately. One of my favorite things is Shakespeare. And my favorite Shakespeare is Henry V. Not the bombastic St. Crispin’s Day speech, or even Harfleur. I love me some dark night of the soul Harry. Anywho…

Book 8 – Tightrope.

Holy cow this book. It highlights just how precarious life in America can be. I went into this book a liberal, and came out even farther to the left.