oreneta aground: August 2015

Books read, 2017

20.7.17 To Play the Fool, Laurie R King, very good.
17.7.17 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, Mitch Albom, Good.
14.7.17, Inspector Singh investigatds: A curious Indian Cadaver by Shamini Flint. Fine
8.7.17 Wait for Signs, 12 Longmire stories. Craig Johnson. Good, but short stories are like being only allowed to eat 3 bites of a delicious meal.
8.7.17, Bad Monkey, Carl Hiassen. Great.
3.7.17. The Muralist B.A.Shapiro, fine.
1.7.17 The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion, very good.
27.6.17, Lady Cop Makes Trouble, Amy Steward. Good.
24.6.17 Girl waits with gun. Amy Stewart, good, a little long.
21.6.17 The Gilr who Saved the King of Sweden. Jonas Jonasson, mediochre
19.6.17, The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict, man, what a bastard.
18.6.17 The Couturier of Milan, Ian Hamilton, fine.
15.6.17 A Monsterous Regiment of Women, Laurie R King, good.
13.6.17 Cara Black, Murder in the Marais, good, if a little gory.
11.6.17 Ru, Kim Thúy, good.
10.6.17 Garden of Lamentations, Deborah Crombie, Excellent
9.6.17 Jacqueline Winspeak, Maisie Dobbs. Very good.
5.6.17 A Letter of Mary, Laurie R King, Good.
4.6.17, The Samurai's Wife, Laura Joh Rowland, OK.
29.5.17 AGrave Talent, Laurie R King, great.
27.5.17 The Shoebox Bible, Alan Bradley. Sad.
26.5.17 The Concubine's Tattoo, Laura Joh Rowland, Good.
22.5.17 Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd, Alan Bradley, Good, sad.
19.5.17 As Chimney Sweepers come to dust. Alan Bradley. Good.
16.5.17 The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse. Alan Bradley, good.
16.5.17 The Dead in their Vaulted Arches, Alan Bradley, Very good.
15.5.17 Speaking from Among the Bones, Alan Bradley. Good.
13.5.17 Grave Sight, Charlain Harris. Good.
11.5.17 Silk, Alessandro Baricco. Slow and beautiful.
10.5.17. Fluke, Christopher Moore. Weird, but good.
7.5.17 I am Half Sick of Shadows, Alan Bradley, Good.
6.5.17 The Way of the Traitor, Laura Joh Rowland, Good.
2.5.17 A Red Herring without Mustard , Alan Bradley, Good.
28.4.17 The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley. Good.
25.4.17 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley. Good.
22.4.17, The Disciple of Las Vegas, Ian Hamilton. Meh.
20.4.17 The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R King, Fine.
15.4.17 The Dragon Head of Hong Kong, Ian Hamilton, Good.
15.4.17 The Princeling of Nanjing, Ian Hamilton. Good.
14.4.17 The Kind of Shanghai, Ian Hamilton, Fine.
12.4.17 The Two Sisters of Borneo, Ian Hamilton, Fine.
8.4.17 Divorce Horse, Craig Johnson, Good
8.4.17 The Scottish Banker of Surabaya, Ian Hamilton, Fair
7.4.17 The Red Pole of Mcau, Ian Hamilton, better.
4.3.17 The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, Ian Hamilton. meh....
30.3.17, The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ian Hamilton, good
26.3.17 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Mark Haddon. Good.
22.3.17, Dry Bones, Craig Johnson. Good.
19.3.17 Hard-Boiled Winderland and the End of the World. Haruki Murakami. Oof.
16.3.17 Swamp Angel, Ethel Wilson. Unusual, and very good.
5.3.17 An Obvious Fact, Craig Johnson, again, good.
4.3.17 Any other Name, Longmire, Craig Johnson, again, good.
2.3.17, The Cold Dish a Walt Longmire mystery, Craig Johnson. Good.
26.2.17 Virgins, Diana Gabaldon, fine
26.2.17 The Space Between, Diana Gabaldone, fine
25.2.17 A Leaf in the WInd of all Hallows, Dinana Gabaldon, fine.
25.2.17 The Custom of the Army, Diana Gabaldon, a little baldly told.
24.2.17 A Plague of Zombies, Diana Babaldon, good.
22.2.17 The Scottish Prisoner, Diana Gabaldon, good.
17.6.17 Lord John Grey and the hand of devils, fine.
16.2.17 Lord John Grey and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Diana Gabaldon, OK.
13.2.17, Lord John Grey and the Private Matter. Diana Gabaldon. Fine
11.2.17 Written in my own heart's blood, Diana Gabaldon, still good, still overt the top.
8.2.17, An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon, still good, if occasionally frustrating.
3.2.17 A breath of Snow and Ashes. Diana Gabaldon, still good.
26.1.17 The Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon, Still good.
23.1.17 Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon. Still good.
19.1.17. Voyager, Diana Gabaldon, same, hooks you, but also stretches the boundries of imagination a little too far.
15.1.17 Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon, same....a little frustrating at times.
13.1.17. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon, not very credible and very melodramatic, but good trashy reading.
8.1.17 One Day, Dave Nicolls, intolerably schmarmy.
7.1.17. Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique, occasionally infuriating, but good.
6.1.17 The Essex Serpent. Sara Perry, fine.
4.1.17 Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Good.
2.1.17 The Martian, Andy Weir, bloody brilliant, the ultimate McGyver!
1.1.17 Us, Dave Nicolls. Fine. A bit chic lit-y

T. B. Read

Vassily Gorssman, all his books.
Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Leila Aboulela The Kindness of Enemies
Ali Eteraz, Native Believer
Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead
Saladin Ahmed, Throne of the Cresent Moon
Rabih Alaenddine An Unnecessary Woman
G.Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account
WG Sebald
This is music...I have to get a Usman Riaz guitar cd
Elizabeth Hay’s Late Night’s on Air
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
Diana Gabaldon
2007: Wolf Totem - Jian Rong (China)
2008: Ilustrado - Miguel Syjuco (Philippines)
2009: The Boat to Redemption - Su Tong (China)
Whale Music, Paul Quarrington (sp?)
The Magicians, a novel. Lev Grossman
Staring, how we look. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
A Short History of Women, by Kate Walbert
A gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, by Malie Meloy
Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Miller & Paola, Tell it Slant (the version with the anthology)
William Safire, The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular "on Language" Column in the New York Times Magazine
William Safire, o Uncertain Terms: More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Embodied Visions, evolution, emotion, culture and film by Torben Grodal
Júlio Cortázar, Rayuela. In English or Catalan, sadly not Spanish yet.
W. James Popham, Transformative Assessment
The fixer, Bernard Malamoud
Life: a user's manual, David R. Godine
http://orenetaaground.blogspot.com/2009/05/show-some-lovin-mkay.html
Narrow road to a Far Province, Basho

oreneta aground

Sunday, August 2, 2015

A very good day