Books by the bed
Reading, have read, to be read, re-reading, and gave up on...
Actively reading Eric Larson's The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.
Dissapointed in the new Murderbot, Fugitive Telemetry--a murder mystery with a weak conclusion;
ditto disappointed once again with Connie Willis--why doesn't this creative thinker get an editor? Crosstalk was too long by half (or more).
Gave up on Crazy Rich Asians (why did people like this?); The Summer Before the War;
tuesdays with Morrie (so much extroversion, I was sunburned!); Shiloh
LOVE all the neurobiology: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst;
and The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, about the guys who researched cognitive biases;
and the related Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why--about human behavior in desperate situations.
Love Roz Chast, always.
Love, love, love Goldie the Dollmaker by M. B. Goffstein--check it out!
"A nearly perfect book about Goldie Rosenzweig, who lives alone carving
small wooden dolls and painting bright clothes and friendly faces on
them." --Booklist "
Stalled but want to return to the excellent (& long, but not needlessly) And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts.