oreneta aground (but missinaibi's afloat!): August 2015

Books read, 2020

14.10.20 Pyramids, Terry Prattchet. Excellent
4.9.20 The Wyrd Sisters, Terry Prattchet. Excellent.
25.8.20 Missee Lee, Arthur Ransom. Very good indeed.
11.8.20, Swallows and Amazon's, Arthur Ransom. Excellent as always
2.8.20 Sourcery, Terry Prattchet. Excellent
The Burning Room, Michael Connoly, good.
20.7.20 Black Box, Michael Connoly, good.
10.7.20 The Drop, Michael Connoly, good, sad
10.7.20 The Drop, Miche
7.7.20 Godwulf Manuscript, Robert B. Parker. Ok
5.7.20 Suicide Run, Angle of Investigation and Blue on Black, Michael Connoly. Fine.
4.7.20 Nine Dragons, Michael Connoly. Good.
1,7,20 The Overlook, Michael Connoly. Good, seemed short.
20.6.20 Saint Peter's Fair. Ellis Peters. Very good.
19.6.20 Monk's Hood. Ellis Peters, very good.
18.6.20 A Rare Benedictine, Ellis Peters. Good.
17.6.20 Echo Park, Michael Connoly, excellent
8.6.20 The Closers, Michael Connoly, very good.
7.6.20 The Seagull, Anne Cleeves. Very good.
5.6.20 The Narrows, Michael Connoly. Good.
3.6.20 Akin, Emma Donague. Excellent
3.6.20 Lost Light, Michael Connoly. Excellent.
1.6.20 City of Bones, Michael Connoly, very good.
31.5.20 The Confessions of Brother Haluin, Ellis Peters. Very good.
29.5.20 Mort, Terry Pratchett. Very good indeed
24.5.20 A Darkness More than Night. Michael Connoly. Fine.
23.5.20 Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Comforting
9.5.20 Fallen Angel, Michael Connoly. Excellent.
The body in the castle well, Martin Walker. Good, but slightly frustrating.
26.4.20 The Moth Catcher, Anne Cleeves, very good.
22.4.20 The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Meh. I skipped great reams of it. Not the moment for meanness.
17.4.20 Trunk Music, Michael Connoly. Very good
11.4.20 Ghost of the Bamboo Road. Susan Spann. Good.
5.4.20 The Chocolate War, Martin Walker, Fine.
5.4.20 A Birthday Lunch, Martin Walker, Fine.
5.4.20 A Taste for Vengance. Martin Walker. V good
1.4.20 Equal Rights, Terry Pratchett. Very good.
29.3.20 The Last Coyote, Michael Connoly. Very good.
28.3.20 Obviously, Akilah Hughes. Good.
24.3.20 Does it Fart? Nick Caruso, toilet book.
21.3.20 The Templar's Last Secret. Martin Walker. Good.
18. 3.20. Evvie Drake Starts Over. Linda Holmes. Quality quarantine reading light and happy ending.
15.3.20 Harbour Street, Anne Cleeves. Good.
8.3.20 Trial on Mount Koya, Susan Spann. Good.
7.3.20 Fatal Pursuit, Martin Walker. Very good
26.1.20, The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tay. Very good indeed.
18.2.20 Betrayal at Iga, Susan Spann. Good.
17.2.20 The Patriarch, Martin Walker. Fine.
9.2.20 Concrete Blond. Michael Connoly. Meh
5.2.20 Prisoner, Jason Rezaian, very good.
1.2.20 King bird Highway, Kenn Kaufman. Very good.
28.1.20 The Nina's daughter, Susan Spann. Good
25.1.20 The Children Return, Bruno. Martin Walker. Good.
25.1.20 The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett. Fabulous
23.1.20 Murder most Florida, Mark A Spencer. Interesting
19.1.20 The No Asshole Rule, Robert Sutton. Useful.
16.1.20 Circle of Quilters, Jennifer Chiaverini. Fine.
14.1.20 Black Ice, Michel Connoly. Good
12.1.20 Island of Sea Women. Lisa See. Very dark for Chick-ish lit.
8.1.20 Bird Sense, Tim Birkhead. Well, I learned a lot.
7.1.20 The Resistance Man, Martin Walker. Good.
6.1.20 How to Build a Universe, Briam Cox and Robin Ince. Good but rather scattered.
4.1.20 Black Hole Blues and other songs from outer space, Janna Levin. Excellent.
3.1.20. Remedy for Treason, A Chronic al of Isaac of Girona book., Caroline Roe. Excellent, why is this out of print????

Books I ditched without finishing, 2018, 19

19.5.20 Mars Curiosity Rover. Rob Manning. Soooo much detail.
19.5.20 The Grace of King's, Ken Liu. Meh
2.5.20 The 100 year old. Man who climbed out the window and disappeared. Jonas Jonas son. Audiobooks are not my thing.
21.4.20 The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt,. Just cannot get on with it.
14.4.20 The Caves of Périgord. Martin Walker. Meh, can't get invested. All men
11.4.20 Stranger than we can imagine. John Higgs. Scjttering wildly from one patch of darkness to the next.
5.3.Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini. A dull overly detailed weirdly angled retelling of US history. Yawn
23.1.20 the Red Canary, Tim Birkhead. Omg. Focus!!!!
15.1.20. Lost Girls of Paris. Pam Jenoff. Impossible to suspend your disbelief.
15.1.20 Spring, David Szalay. Why am I reading about these idiotic people?
All That Man Is, David Szalay. Seems that all that man is is deeply dismal and depressive.

T. B. Read

Susan Rice, Tough Love
Montessori Learning in the 21st Century” by M. Shannon Helfrich
Els Ibers del Nord
Sarah Durants 5 novels
Charles Todd
Peter May
Walter Mosley
Scott and Bailey
Walender
The Paris Wife
Endeavour
Inspector Morris
Tennyson mysteries
Maigret
James Runcie
Grantchester books
Books by Louise Penny
Aunt Dimity
Love in a cold climate
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
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

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

A very good day