K 'alyaan Totem Pole
A nice week of reading. When I was at the library to pick up several holds I glanced at the new nonfiction shelf and found a couple of books with "last" in the titles. I read one and am saving the other for next week. I'm really glad I picked up The Last Stand of the Raven Clan. It was interesting, informative, and well written. My "Last" prompt pays off again!
One disappointment in the fiction but otherwise a good reading and surfing week.
Fiction:
Landfalls by Williams, Naomi J.
Excellent debut! Linked stories make a novel based on the Lapérouse Expedition. (Chapters 4 & 5 deal with the Expedition's June/July 1786 experience at Lituya Bay, Alaska, near Sitka, where they lost 21 men to the sea. They also made contact with the Tinglet people.)
Stone Yard Devotional by Wood, Charlotte
Must read more by Charlotte Wood.
Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Oakley, Colleen
A fun read.
Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates #1) by Kidd, Jess
Nora is an ex-nun searching for a friend in a seaside town in Kent. An OK start to a series which I probably won't follow.
Audition by Kitamura, Katie
Yawn. I think I've read enough of Kitamura.
Nonfiction:
What I Saw in California by Bryant, Edwin (pub. 1849)
Culture & politics in California just prior to statehood.
The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent by Easter, Gerald and Vorhees, Mara.
Online:
Mesdames by Williams, Naomi J.
short story
The Woman Upstairs by Tan, Audrey
short story
Searching for Salvation at Antioch by Savage, Jodi
biographical essay
biographical essay
April Gertler
collage, drawing, photography, performance, and social practice
collage, drawing, photography, performance, and social practice
Aaliyah Gupta
Painting, mixed media, installation
Painting, mixed media, installation
Retsina: A 2,000-Year Legacy of Greece’s People’s Wine by Kokkinidis, Tasos
I do like Retsina--but only when accompanied by Greek food.
"The Louis Shotridge Digital Archive makes available, for the first time, 4,000 high resolution digital images of Louis Shotridge’s objects, papers, photographs, and sound recordings. The Penn Museum initiated this project in 2006, in response to the interest expressed by members of the Tlingit community who were striving to regain knowledge of their Tlingit history and heritage and to engage in conversations with the Penn Museum around the Shotridge collections."
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