2024 Reading — October

It was a busy month and I got shockingly little reading done, but these are three significant books. North Woods by Daniel Mason was…

2024 Reading — August and September

I was traveling at the end of August, so didn’t get my reading list posted for the month. Here’s a double entry: The High…

2024 Reading — July

Foster by Claire Keegan is a very short novel that was first published in an abridged form as a short story in the New…

2024 Reading–June

The River by Peter Heller is a novel set in the wilds of Canada. I’m not sure why I read this, because I did…

2024 Reading–May

The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney was my book club’s selection for…

2024 Reading–April

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy was my April book club selection. I found it fascinating. From the…

2024 Reading–March

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson is my book club’s selection for this month. I was keen to…

2024 Reading — February

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow was my book club’s selection for February. The book is remarkable on several levels. While…

2024 Reading — January

Silverview by John LeCarre is another—the last, apparently—spy novel from the master of the genre. Completed by his son and published after his death,…

2023 Reading–December

That’s a wrap on my reading journal for this year. I’ve logged only 60 books this year, fewer than any year in recent memory….