Monday, February 28, 2022

February 2022

Everything except Zone and the online stuff was from the public library. Only one dent in the "owned but unread" shelf. But no additions to it either!
 Most of these were really good, but the last three in the fiction list were disappointing.
 
Fiction:
Camouflage: Stories by Bail, Murray
 want to read more by Bail
Young Once by Modiano, Patrick; translated from the French by Searls, Damion
 classic Modiano
Zone by Énard, Mathias; translated from the French by Mandell, Charlotte
 Balkan fighter reviews his career in one long stream of consciousness sentence. Tedious at times, but i slogged through
Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Wasserman, Robin
 Amnesia victum and the team helping her
Refuge
by Nayeri, Dina 
 Iranian father/daughter relationship
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Nayeri, Dina
 Iranian twin. Caspian area
When God Was a Rabbit by Winman, Sarah
  Another good one from Winman
Red Crosses by Filipenko, Sasha; translated from the Russian by Baer, Bryan James and Vayner, Ellen
 Kindle edition
Beasts of a Little Land by Kim, Juhea 
 Korean independence movement
The Darkness Knows (Konráð #1) by Indriðason, Arnaldur; translated from the Icelandic by Cribb, Victoria
 A Nordic mystery is nice every now and then. 
The Seed Keeper by Wilson, Diane
 Native Americans.  Multiple pov & time periods.
The Family Chao by Chang, Lan Samantha
  A dysfunctional family  and someone gets slammed in the cooler.
The Love Letters: A Novel by L'Engle, Madeleine
  This was terrible.  An awful way to look at marriage, god, love, etc.  yuck! 1950's thinking (this was written in 1966) Stick to your marriage no matter what. No!
The Maid by Prose, Nita 
  Didn't care for this when I started but it kind of grew on me.
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Tursten, Helene 
  A disappointment - not nearly as good as the first in the series
 
Wonder Tales from Tibet by Eleanor Myers Jewett; illustrated by Maurice Day
 Love the illustrations in this 1922 book.
 
 Maurice "Jake" Day later worked for Disney where he created Bambi.
 
Poetry:
 
Puella mea by E.E. Cummings. Illustrated with drawings by Klee, Modigliani, Picasso, and  Kurt Roesch. 

Nonfiction: 
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's   
 Double Helix by Markel, Howard
Hidden Figures by Shetterly, Margot Lee

No comments:

Post a Comment