My mom used to go on double dates with him

My dad died in hospice in November. Find all the joy and respite wherever you can. 💙

Front cover of London Falling, depicting Thames River with Tower Bridge.

Almost done with London Falling. It’s a page turner!

Orange cat on a chair yawning widely.

So exhausted. #caturday #cats

Front cover of book London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe. Shows the Thames River in London with Tower Bridge in distance.

This is excellent so far. Really a page turner. #booksky #nonfiction #truecrime 💙📚

This is the proper response to The Magus.

It sure feels (and smells and looks) like it! 💨

NONSENSE, YOU CAN ROCK THEM

I loved Our Share of Night. Such a fantastic, deeply creepy and immersive novel.

Young guitarist

Even the Good Girls Will Cry

My mind wanders too much if I’m watching shows or movies.

This is amazing! I made $22k as an editorial assistant in 1998.

The cover of Even the Good Girls Will Cry, a memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur, shows the young guitarist on stage.

Excited to read this! I love a rock musician memoir and she should have some great stories. #booksky 💙📚🎶

I LOVE deckle edges!

In an effort to read more classics and more writers outside the US and UK, I’m reading The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard and really enjoying it.

February books read: #booksky 💙📚

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education - Peter Hessler
The Go-Between - LP Hartley
The Getaway - Jim Thompson
Benbecula - Graeme Macrae Burnett
A Woman in the Polar Night - Christiane Ritter
Independent People - Halldor Laxness

Five authors by whom I’ve read at least five books:

Louise Erdrich
Kate Atkinson
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Tana French
Sarah Waters

#booksky 💙📚

I think Fingersmith might be my favorite but they’re all great. You can’t go wrong.

Ooh I love that cover! 😍

I love Sarah Waters!

Independent People by Halldor Laxness. It’s been on my TBR list for 10 years and I finally got around to it and am now thinking—why did it wait so long? It’s great, of course.

It’s excellent!

East of Eden for me. 😅

I just bought this one!

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. Or Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

I just finished reading this! So many thoughts.

a woman in a white coat with a cross on her chest ALT: a woman in a white coat with a cross on her chest

RIP Catherine O’Hara, icon.

LOVE these!!