Books by the bed
Reading, have read, to be read, re-reading, and gave up on...
Actively reading Eric Larson's The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.
Dissapointed in the new Murderbot, Fugitive Telemetry--a murder mystery with a weak conclusion;
ditto disappointed once again with Connie Willis--why doesn't this creative thinker get an editor? Crosstalk was too long by half (or more).
Gave up on Crazy Rich Asians (why did people like this?); The Summer Before the War;
tuesdays with Morrie (so much extroversion, I was sunburned!); Shiloh
LOVE all the neurobiology: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst;
and The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, about the guys who researched cognitive biases;
and the related Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why--about human behavior in desperate situations.
Love Roz Chast, always.
Love, love, love Goldie the Dollmaker by M. B. Goffstein--check it out!
"A nearly perfect book about Goldie Rosenzweig, who lives alone carving
small wooden dolls and painting bright clothes and friendly faces on
them." --Booklist "
Stalled but want to return to the excellent (& long, but not needlessly) And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts.
Sorry to hear the Connie Willis is again disappointing. She's so good, but needs an editor so badly! Was it still worth reading?
ReplyDeleteHaving ever heard of Goldie the Dollmaker...but that sounds delightful and right up your alley!
I enjoyed Crazy Rich Asians simply for the "gobsmacked" factor, people actually live like that? With that much money? It's crazy all right. There are two sequels to that book and I have read them both. In one, a girl says "...is so poor, he has only ten million a year to live on" Another jaw dropping moment.
ReplyDeleteYour bedside pile is much larger than mine.
BINK: I can lend it to you if you like--it's okay for light reading, but it wasn't one of her most interesting plots anyway--pretty slight.
ReplyDeleteI'll lend you Goldie too--it's about being an artist, so good for you too!
RIVER: That WAS amazing--how crazy rich the Crazy Rich Asians are. It had a very good opening chapter when the family buys the hotel and immediately fires the rude racist manager!
The ending of the third book is also good, what the Matriarch does with the estate in her will.
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