FF: Summer Reads?
Dandelion: A New Member of the Book Club
Jim was away last weekend, so I listened to audiobooks and did crafts.
Do you have different “summer reads” than the rest of the year?
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.
What are you reading?
Recently Completed:
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney. Interesting with lots of details not only about Edwardian servants, but how their lives compared to those of their Victorian counterparts.
The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters. Audiobook. Re-read.
The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters. Audiobook. Re-read.
In Progress:
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. Just finished the very unsettling “The Undertakers” and am about to begin “The King’s Ankus.”
Growing Food in a Hotter, Dryer Land by Gary Paul Nabhan. Very interesting. Makes me want enough land to try some of the suggestions.
The Towers of the Sunset by L.E. Modisett. Audiobook. Interesting way of writing a series – the world is the only continuing character and the books are non-linear within the series. I was very confused at first. This book is the second in the series.
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. No. Not the movie with Bowie. A “grail” story told part in the past, part in contemporary times. So far I’d say a novelette’s worth of plot, lots of setting infused with running around and being confused because plot elements are withheld to pad the limited story. Not bad, for all that. I’ll probably finish it.
Also:
Still reading magazines. A recent National Geographic with a focus on plastic waste was interesting but too focused on the problem. I would have liked a bit more awareness of the problems those same plastics have eliminated – and how to eliminate plastics without reintroducing those problems.
