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ReviewsSeptember Favorites
Hi! Not sure if there is any kind of recurrent post about monthly favorites, but I thought it would be fun to ask!
Did anyone have any reading stand outs from September?
I really enjoyed The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush. I'm at a cross roads with potential motherhood and my anxiety for the future of the planet, so appreciated reading about someone else's perspective on this. I'm a big fan of narrative non-fiction, this one was a nice blend of memoir, the history of exploration of Antarctica (and the male dominance of this), plus what the scientist are finding out about climate chance from the melting ice.
Hoping there's some interest in maybe having a monthly thread to discuss what was memorable!
I am reading Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. I can't pick my September favourite, because it usually takes more than a month for me to finish. Anyway, I started Ducks in September and I am absolutely in love with the book. The book is basically a 1000-page sentence, which is a stream-of-consciousness of a middle-aged woman. I think it's the you either you hate it or love it type of book. But I like it very much!
I’ve got that here for some time when I’ve got long uninterrupted stretches.
I finally read The Fraud by Zadie Smith. I’ve got a lot going on and I was distracted, but it’s really good. Smith has taken the real history of a 19th-century hack writer who was once more popular than Dickens and made a main character of his housekeeper and cousin by marriage, as well as sometime editor and lover, Eliza. And then there’s the case of the Tichborne Claimant, also real, in which a butcher comes from Australia claiming to be the long-lost Sir Roger Tichborne. It’s well written and it’s thought-provoking.
Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler
A dystopian near future story about a teen girl who realizes that her neighborhood's walled enclave will not remain safe for long.
It was written in the '90s and features a political candidate who seeks to "make america great again."
I read The Deerfield Massacre by James L. Swanson. Not for the faint of heart but also a very easy read due to the rather simplistic writing style.
If you’re interested in colonial American history it’s worth a read.
I’m interested. Right now I’m down a different rabbit hole but I feel some colonial America coming on.