I’m once again fortunate enough to have a book find me and sweep me away despite my proclaimed inability to focus. It’s Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse an elegant novel of dystopia, mystery, and literary fiction. It’s a not-so-distant point in America’s future where climate change and political upheaval have erased all familiar landscapes, leaving what was once a network of ... Read More...
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
In the near future two events occur that add new possibilities for human survival. One is an acceleration process that allows spacecraft to travel at up to 30 million mph, a speed previously unimagined, but that will open up galaxy exploration beyond science’s wildest dreams. The other is closer to home—an unmapped vent in the Atlantic Ocean that appears to be far deeper than ... Read More...
January Reading Wrap-Up
Anyone else have a tough reading month in January? Who knows whether it was because I had so much amazing backlist reading over the holidays or the fact that none of the new January books panned out for me. Either way, I’m not sorry to say goodbye to this first month of 2024. Let’s go February! Tricia joins her husband in Saigon as the Vietnam War begins and has to ... Read More...
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese is back with a new novel 14 years after his critically acclaimed bestseller, Cutting for Stone. The Covenant of Water is a saga spanning 70 years about one family with an unusual history—in every generation there is a family member with an aversion to water who ends up drowning. Verghese uses this mysterious affliction as the thread woven through a sprawling ... Read More...
March Reading Recap
March was a great month for reading in that I ran from one book to another, but not so good for reviewing as my interest in writing fled in the opposite direction. Which now means I have a head full of tangled plots, character confusion, and dense clusters of missing information about what I’ve read. There will have to be some rereading in my future, combined with cursing ... Read More...
October Reading Wrap-Up
Goodbye, October. A part of me feels as if posting this recap is silly, given what lies ahead tomorrow, but maybe it will provide you with a bit of distraction. October turned out to be a big reading month—I finished 16 books and DNFed two at the 50% mark. I rated nine books four stars or higher, which is pretty great. Thank you, book universe! Hidden ... Read More...
