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

Yesterday:

Had a three hour nap

Read an entire novel

Saw a brilliant play

Spent time with friends and family.

A very good day indeed.

Books read, 2020

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????

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

Sunday, August 2, 2015

A very good day