FF: Keeping Up With The Stories
Kel and the Penderwicks
I’ve been writing obsessively, so my print reading has dropped off, but I’m still managing at least some!
For those of you just discovering this part of my blog, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week. Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines.
The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list. If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.
Once again, this is not a book review column. It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.
So, tell me what you’re reading!
Recently Completed:
Leonardo daVinci by Walter Isaacson. Audiobook. I enjoyed. Minutely detailed at points, but nonetheless absorbing. Lots of repetition for key points. This is advantageous for an audiobook.
In Progress:
The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall. Closing book in a middle grade series I enjoyed. This one has touches of YA concerns, but the POV character is younger.
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. I’m up to “The White Seal.”
Have Sword Will Travel by Garth Nix and Sean Williams. Audiobook. Amusing middle-grade with some thoughtful comments on aspiration and reality.
Also:
Now reading latest National Geographic.
