FF: Odd Roads
Persephone Vogues!
I hope some of you will join me and Jeffe Kennedy at Page One Books in Albuquerque, 4:00 pm this Saturday for a book event featuring my Wolf’s Search and her The Orchid Throne. I’ve been looking for the right hat, but may need to settle for bringing cookies…
While I’m at it, here’s a teaser for next week… Alan Robson and I will be back with a really amusing Thursday Tangent featuring drabbles and feghoots. Don’t know what these are? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
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.
And I’m always interested in what you have to recommend! No unreliable narrators, please!
Recently Completed:
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant. Audiobook. A rich and detailed survey of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. As background “music” are the forces that would lead to the acceptance of what would become Christianity.
In Progress:
The Bends In The Road: A Memoir by Svenn Lindskold. Svenn is my great-uncle, half-brother of my paternal grandfather, a relative I met only after I was an adult, but whom I’ve come to really like.
Mister Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Audiobook. Rich description, so far very light characterization and plot, but we shall see…
Kebra Nagast edited by Gerald Hausman. Just started.
Jerk From Jamaica: Barbecue Caribbean Style by Helen Willinsky. Food and how it is prepared is a terrific window into a culture. Helen Willinsky’s introduction alone makes this book a great find.
Also:
Research can take me down some very odd roads. Right now, that includes Vogue. What surprises me is how excellent the writing is, and how often thoughtful cultural issues are discussed.
