FF: Sublime to Ridiculous

Persephone Reads

This week’s reading has been nicely stimulating without being stressful.  Just perfect!

And the usual reminder…  The Friday Fragments is not a book review column; it’s a list of what I’m reading and maybe a bit about my opinions.  I always read the Comments section, because I enjoy learning what other people are reading.  Oh, and I don’t usually list shorter works unless in a collection or articles.  I also don’t usually list my scattered research reading.

Completed:

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan.  Book Four of The Heroes of Olympus cycle. Audiobook.

The Adventures of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvin Bragg.  Non-fiction.  Enjoyable, breezy looks at the evolution of the English language.  Author is English.  Worked on a BBC version of the material.  He notes that the book is “far fuller” than the programs. 

In Progress:

Now or Never (Thirty-One On the Run) by Janet Evanovich.  Audiobook.  Stephanie has accepted marriage proposals from both of her long-time romantic attachments.  And her bounty-hunter targets are weirder than ever—and she’s acquired a nerdy stalker.  Although the plot often verges on the ridiculous, it’s actually led to several very thoughtful chats with Jim about who we think would be the better choice.  I haven’t cheated so I don’t know if Stephanie actually chooses or wriggles out and back to status quo.

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger.  Interesting and accessible.

Also:

A couple new magazines came in.  I started the new Smithsonian, then paused to dip into the latest from AARP, since their material is more time sensitive.