My #FebruaryReads Another pretty good month!
- The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
- The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
- Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
- The Secret Hours, Mick Herron
- The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow
- A Man With One of Those Faces, Caimh McDonnell
My favorite was definitely Sing, Unburied, Sing. What was your favorite read last month?
“Ms. Beckett was drinking coffee from a reusable cup, or, as such items had once been known, a cup.”
#SundaySentence from The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
- Death is Hard Work, Khaled Khalifa
- The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman
- Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny
- The Cold Millions, Jess Walter
- The Wake-Up Call, Beth O’Leary
- The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish
- Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
- A Man With One of Those Faces, Caimh McDonnell
Another good month in which I enjoyed most of what I read (the first two being my favorites)!
“Death is a solitary experience, of course, but nevertheless it lays heavy obligations on the living.”
#SundaySentence from Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
“He was on Sprague Avenue, in the fancier part of downtown, where a better class of steam escaped people’s mouths.”
#SundaySentence from The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
“Meaning has no mass or charge. It occupies no space - and yet meaning makes a difference in the world.”
#SundaySentence from The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
“This was fresh, rich, heavenly, succulent, soft, creamy, kiss-my-ass, cows-gotta-die-for-this, delightfully salty, moo-ass, good old white folks cheese, cheese to die for, cheese to make you happy, cheese to beat the cheese boss, cheese for the big cheese, cheese to end the world, cheese so good it inspired a line every first Saturday of the month”
A cheesy #SundaySentence from Deacon King Kong by James McBride
#Bookstodon #BookQuote #BookRecommendation #Books @bookstodon #Cheese
My July reads:
- Keepers of the House, Shirley Ann Grau
- The Overstory, Richard Powers
- A Prayer for the Crow-Shy, Becky Chambers
- The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma
- A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson
- All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby
- Fatelessness, Imre Kertész (tr by Tim Wilkinson)
- Beacon 23, Hugh Howey
July was a good month - I liked or loved most of what I read. My favorite was definitely The Overstory and the only dud was Beacon 23.
Today’s photo features two different insects. The delicate white flowers in front of the #Monarch butterfly are actually cypress flower gall midges (Taxodiomyia cupressi). Female midges lay their eggs on newly developing cypress needles, and their maggots feed and cause the needle to form a small, white, flower-like gall inside of which the maggot develops. I think these galls are quite lovely and see them on several of the young #BaldCypress trees in my yard.
