As a child in the 80’s I also was often overcome with the sadness of the swamps.

“Bastian, why don’t you do what you dreamed! Call my name!” 😫

Covers of the books: - Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins - The Dark Half by Stephen King - All In Her Head by Elizabeth Comen MD - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigkey - Brother by Ania Ahlborn

My March reads. So good. Especially the three on the bottom row.
Something old,
Something new,
Something bleak as hell,
Something five stars too.
#booksky 💙📚

Update… this was really good!

Cover of ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’ by Nina McConigley

My current read. I am really digging ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’ by our own local Colorado author Nina McConigley. It’s tragic and clever and darkly funny. And it gives voice to a protagonist unlike any I’ve encountered before. What a delight to read. #booksky 💙📚

Hamnet bu Maggie O’Farrell Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

The books I read in February. Expanded my range a bit this month to complete some Goodreads challenges.
#booksky 💙📚

Read banned books. 💙 📚
#booksky #BlackHistoryMonth

‘Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ‘80s’ by Gary Gulman ‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ by John Green ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by Ocean Vuong ‘The Tommyknockers’ by Stephen King ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi’ by Wright Thompson

The more depressing the world gets, the more I lose myself in books. These were my January reads. #booksky 💙📚

When I read a book that emotionally drains me, like this one, I intentionally choose something light for my next read. Just checked my Goodreads history… after I finished this book I read Project Hail Mary. 🚀 👽 🧬 😃

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - 5 stars The Color Purple by Alice Walker - 5 stars The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis - 5 stars Go As a River by Shelley Read - 4 stars Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 5 stars The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - 5 stars

The books I read in December. These were all winners, but Demon Cooperhead was my favorite. Amazing!And while reading Dickens’ David Copperfield first isn’t necessary, it was an absolute joy to see how Barbara Kingsolver wove so many Dickensian details into her story. #booksky 💙📚

It’s a good point though. In my HS we still read whole novels - Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Cry the Beloved Country, All Quiet on the Western Front, Yellow Raft in Blue Water. My wife’s HS did not. We’ve had many talks about how our experiences differed because of that.

I get it. The point being that they were both already well-known actors. I had it exactly backwards. Audiences 20 years ago were probably more tolerant *because* of that. Rather than letting the story and the romance speak for itself.

I graduated HS In 1996. The other honors English class I *wasn’t* in read ‘Animal Dreams’ and they all raved that she was their favorite author. Their adulation seemed a little too groupie fanboy for me. But I’m converted now.

We need to talk about Kevin.

I’m now halfway through Poisonwood Bible and amazed again. What an incredible voice. I don’t know how I didn’t discover her sooner.

Probably mine too. But the connections to David Copperfield are incredible. The plot, the characters, their names, their personalities and idiosyncrasies. The attention to detail by Barbara Kingsolver is amazing. It’s absolutely genius, and totally deserving of the Pulitzer she won for the book.

Two paperback books sitting side by side. ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens sitting next to ‘Demon Copperhead’ by Barbara Kingsolver.

So I forced myself to read David Copperfield prior to starting Demon Copperhead. It was a struggle. I was not a fan. But now I’m 40% through Demon and so glad I did. I have so many thoughts! Mind blown! 🤯 Did anyone else have this experience? #booksky 💙📚

Cover of ‘Chain Gang All-Stars’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Wow, this one was a gut punch. So well-written, so powerful, and with so much to say. I finished it yesterday and I’m still thinking about it. #booksky

You’re not worthy of your religion beat unless you get Presidential commentary on the filioque controversy.

As a radiologist I can confirm, the only people who don’t know what body part was scanned are generally people who have MRIs of their brain.

Apologies to Charles Dickens but my lord! that man needs an editor. 😐

- Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff 5⭐️ - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. 5⭐️ - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 4⭐️ - The Serviceberry by Robin-Wall Kimmerer. 5⭐️ - Clear by Carys Davies 4⭐️ - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 3⭐️

The books I read in November. Three stars for David Copperfield (which I only read to prepare for Demon Copperhead). The rest were all 4 or 5 stars. I have so many thoughts! #booksky 💙📚

Picture of a well-worn sitting chair next to a small table with a lamp and several stacked books. A bookcase to the left, a partly visible lit Christmas tree to the right, a window in the back framed with white Christmas lights.

If you need me anytime between now and January, this is where I’ll be. #booksky

A man of many contradictions.

I think it’s where he keeps his horcruxes.

Day one of which year? I don’t think they specified.

As a self-described “life-long Catholic” and “devout mass-goer,” Tom Homan should abstain from communion until he repents.

He has an ICD. So it could have been vfib that was shocked.

But what does door dash say? 🤓

Great pic! Two incredible musicians and artists. I love his sweater!