Book Displays, Home and Away

Books at Home (on the floor next to my bed)

I don't read mysteries, but I love the graphic on the green Penguin.

The Little Wooden Doll is very satisfying:
an old doll is scorned by some horrible children, so the doll's spider friends spin beautiful clothes and hair for her, and her mice friends take her to live with a little girl who is alone all day. 

BELOW:
Can't get into A Gentleman in Moscow--too much description of hotel amenities.

Librarian of Auschwitz & Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016) were good, but their subjects were too anxiety-producing for this anxious time (Nazis and big corporations dumping toxic waste, and the Tea Party people who argue against environmental regs).
Will return to them some day, I hope.

Bringing Columbia Home  would make a good New Yorker article, but this book is way too reverential toward NASA (written by a NASA guy)--it's hagiographic.

Chuck Palahnuik's Consider This on writing is fun.
Reading about writing is a treat and a swindle:
you feel like you're writing better,  . . . without writing!

The Library at Night is a big disappointment. It's where Iturbe, the author of Librarian at Auschwitz, discovered his topic, so I ordered a copy. It's full of half-baked assertions.

Let's Make Something from 1953 is for children: it includes how to make a dart from a piece of wood and a nail--you sharpen the nail with a file to make a good sticking point!

AWAY

As I've started to sort donated books, I'm assembling a "things to do at home" display, for when we reopen June 1. 
With a slight macabre twist...