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Started the month by finishing Outermark which was a great read. Then I started and rejected The Champagne Letters (not listed below because I only read a few chapters). Then the excellent A House for Miss Pauline. Then the so-so Sweet Vidalia. Is this how the month will go? Back and forth between great and notso great?
Looked up Dianna McCaulay which led me to PREE an online magazine for new contemporary writing from and about the Caribbean. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and experimental writing. Also poked around a bit on the website of The Jamaica Environment Trust which McCaulay founded.
Actually the first half of May delivered some fine reading!
Fiction:
Outermark by Brown, Jason
One Fifth Avenue by Bushnell, Candace
New Yorkers being at the center of their little universes.
Things Don't Break on Their Own by Collins, Sarah Easter
Lots of things are broken in this tale of a dysfunctional family.
A House for Miss Pauline by McCaulay, Diana
Are there ghosts in this Jamaican house built from the rubble of a slaveowner's plantation?
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair by Némirovsky, Irène; translated from the French by Smith, Sandra; introduction by Messud, Claire
Perspective(s) by Binet, Laurent; translated from the French by Taylor, Sam
Yes! Loved this investigation of a murder in 16th Century Florence.
The Library of Lost Dollhouses by Hooper, Elise
Another good one!
Elektra by Saint, Jennifer
A good retelling.
The Lilac People by Todd, Milo
A different look at WW2 in Germany. LGBT+
Midnight at the Dragon Café by Bates, Judy Fong
Got a slow start on this but stayed with it and ended up liking it.
Red Clay by Fancher, Charles B.
A promising debut.
Sweet Vidalia by Sandlin, Lisa
soso
The Usual Desire to Kill by Barnes, Camilla
Tedious.
The Dinky Ducklings by Lang Campbell (Algonquin Publishing Company, 1928)
Fun artwork, some racist language typical of the times.
The Last Lady of Mulberry: A Story of Italian New York by Thomas, Henry Wilton; illustrated by Pollak, Emil
First published in 1900. I don't think it aged well.
Preservation a story by by Andrew Cominelli
Bouyon a story by Savannah Balmir
Cassiopeia a story by Gabriel Urza
Poetry:
Water, Water: Poems by Collins, Billy
Nonfiction:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Dalton, Chloe; illustrated by Nestor, Denise
Excellent!
Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life And Works by Weiss, Jonathan; translated from the French by Weiss, Dace
Informative discussion. Sheds some light on Nimirovsky's depiction of Jews.
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Garten, Ina
A pleasant read
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Stein, Eliot
Too much padding, too much of the author. After the first two or three essays they all sounded alike.
Domestic life in New England in the seventeenth century: A Discourse Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it being one of a Series designed to mark the Opening of the American Wing. By George Francis Dow. [1925}
I Know I’ll Be OK as Long as I Have a Bag of Frozen Peas in My Freezer short essay by by Rachel Perlmutter
Do we have peas in our freezer? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
The Sutter County Museum has a searchable archive of the Hustorical Society's Bulletin.
Sutter County Historical Society News Bulletin, Vol. XXXV No. 4 Yuba City, California October. 1994
This publication interests me because I spent some formative years in the area. This issue contains an article by Marian Regli ("Teaching in a Rural School"). Her wedding in June 1947 is the first wedding I can remember attending.
Rejects These were returned to library unread (decided not to read after a chapter or less):
Checkout 19 by Bennett, Claire-Louise
Experimental novel that didn't work for me--didn't get far at all
The cure for women : Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever by Reeder, Lydia
The cure for women : Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever by Reeder, Lydia
Boring and not worth my time
The fact checker : a novel by Kelley, Austin
The fact checker : a novel by Kelley, Austin
This "laugh-out-loud funny" book isn't --it doesn't even make me smile.
The big fix by James, Holly
The big fix by James, Holly
Can't remember why I ditched this
Raw dog : the naked truth about hot dogs by Loftus, Jamie
Might be the worst book I tried to read this year.
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