Monday, November 30, 2020

November 2020

Activities:
 
Not much outside the house.
11/5 doctor 
11/16 lab; gassed car
11/24 pickup at libraries (2); jc farms for pie!

Books:
 Some good novels and lots of non-fiction this month.

Fiction:
Lovely War by Berry, Julie
Jean-Luc persécuté by Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand; translated from the French by Baes, Olivia
How to Stop Time by Haig, Matt
Autopsy of a Father by Kramer, Pascale; translated from the French by Bononno, Robert
The Midnight Library by Haig, Matt
Forty Rooms by Grushin, Olga 

Poetry:
The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; translated from the German by Ozsváth, Zsuzsanna and Turner, Frederick  

Nonfiction: 
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by Nasaw, David
For the Love of Music: The Art of Listening by Mauceri, John
The Simpsons: A Cultural History by Fink, Moritz
A Promised Land by Obama, Barack 
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Slaght, Jonathan C.
Music to Eat Cake By: Essays on Birds, Words and Everything in Between by Parikian, Lev
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Harris, Kamala

Online:

 While reading For the Love of Music and Music to Eat Cake By I wondered why I was reading about music but not listening to music?  So I put the books aside and went searching for music, specifically Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. As a result I've spent a least an hour a day on YouTube listening to Sabine Meyer play. Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms,....
Sublime Swimming: 14 examples of custom pools by María Francisca González
  I sure do miss my swims ... sigh...
Wagenhallen official site
 a part of Stuttgart I've never seen (because it was something else when I lived in Germany)

Sunday, November 01, 2020

October 2020

 Another exciting (ha) month of quarantine....but some really good reading

Activities:
10/1 Library curbside drop off/pick up; JC farms for produce.
10/3 Furnace guy
10/5 Doctor 
10/6 Furnace guy
10/9 Library curbside drop off/pick up; JC farms for produce; Durham Market for cold cuts; mailed ballot
10/15/ local foliage drive; short walk at Miller's Pond 
10/23 Library curbside drop off/pickup; JC farms
10/27 Drive to Old Saybrook
10/29 JC Farms Closed!; Lyman Orchads

Reading:
Fiction:
 A Million Aunties by McKenzie, Alecia
   A novel told from several points of view making it read like very closely linked short stories
 How to Pronounce Knife by Thammavongsa, Souvankham 
   short stories
 That Time of Year by NDiaye, Marie; translated from the French by Stump, Jordan
 The End of the Day by Clegg, Bill
 Here We Are by Swift, Graham
 Verena in the Midst by Lucas, E.V. (on Project Gutenberg) 
 The Gathering by Enright, Anne
 The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o; translated from the Gĩkũyũ by the author 
 The Silence by DeLillo, Don

Poetry:
 Home: New Arabic Poems by Hawwash, Samer Abu and others; various translators

Nonfiction:
 This Tilting World by Fellous, Colette; translated from the French by Lewis, Sophie
 James Monroe: A Life by McGrath, Tim
 Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Jerkins, Morgan
 Having and Being Had by Biss, Eula

Online: