Katabasis by RF Kuang - which stood out amongst a sea of 3.5 star reads. I really enjoyed it but didn't love it quite as much as I expected it to. It won't make my top 10 for the year, but it was brilliantly crafted and just so smart. And the commentary on academic life made me laugh out loud as a mid-career academic.
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home by Sue Halpern The author works with her dog Pransky
to hopefully get her trained as a certified therapy dog. She does succeed and they make weekly visits to the county nursing home. The book has seven sections based on the four cardinal and three theological virtues. Halpern’s observations and her love for Pransky were expressed so well. I liked it better than Old Friends by Tracy Kidder.
I was traveling most of September so my reading was limited. However, I thoroughly enjoyed two nonfiction books: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard.
Frankenstein, which is nothing like the movie version.
Katabasis by RF Kuang - which stood out amongst a sea of 3.5 star reads. I really enjoyed it but didn't love it quite as much as I expected it to. It won't make my top 10 for the year, but it was brilliantly crafted and just so smart. And the commentary on academic life made me laugh out loud as a mid-career academic.
Bringing Down the House by Charlotte Runcie
Oh I adored this. As an Edinburgh resident, it was perfection. I wasn't sure if it would work quite as well for non-locals.
"Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" -- another shocking, hilarious book (and a mystery, at that) by the great Olga Tokarczuk.
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home by Sue Halpern The author works with her dog Pransky
to hopefully get her trained as a certified therapy dog. She does succeed and they make weekly visits to the county nursing home. The book has seven sections based on the four cardinal and three theological virtues. Halpern’s observations and her love for Pransky were expressed so well. I liked it better than Old Friends by Tracy Kidder.
I loved Maria Dong's LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF and Yevgeny Zamyatin's WE.
Easily has to be the first two “Foundation” novels by Isaac Asimov, reading the 3rd now, simply amazing!
I was traveling most of September so my reading was limited. However, I thoroughly enjoyed two nonfiction books: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard.
Heart the Lover by Lily King followed very closely by Howards End by EM Forster.
It’s a toss up between Rodney Stark’s “Bearing False Witness” and James Martin’s “Seven Last Words.”