Plus . . . hilarious.
My daughter loved to have us boo and throw dinner napkins at her when she would practice her theater songs.
Listening to Namwali Serpell's "The Old Drift," reading Paul Auster's "The Locked Room," and getting ready to take the family to Paris.
February 2026 Reading List - Good month.
Absolutely loving "Harlem Shuffle" right now and "Crook Manifesto" is ready on deck.
Reading Paul Auster’s “The New York Trilogy,” and listening to Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle.”
And watching “Pachinko” and trying not to get misty every time I see a bowl of white rice.
Reading Gary Shteyngart’s “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook.”
Able to recognize that Brandi Carlile was wearing Thom Browne due to the four stripes that adidas sued over. Fashion Streisand effect in effect.
“Zuleika Dobson,” by Max Beerbohm (1911). Absolutely crazy satire of British society and Oxford culture.
Hoping to finish listening to Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell" (amazing!) and reading Robert Butler's "A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life."
Make It Ours: Virgil Abloh, Robin Givhan
Motion Dazzle, Jocelyn Jane Cox
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
So Late In The Day, Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Frederick Douglass, Donald Blight
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Nevada, Imogene Binnie
Severance, Ling Ma
My Effin Life, Geddy Lee
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
American War, Omar El Akkad
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loving, Henry Green
Runaway, Alice Munro
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
Cultish, Amanda Montell
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
There There, Tommy Orange
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
When the Wolf Comes Home, Nat Cassidy
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
James, Percival Everett
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Sula, Toni Morrison
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Americanah, Chimamada Ngozie
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
2025 Reading List:
Outline, Rachel Cusk
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Citizen, Claudia Rankine
The Mountain Lion, Jean Stafford
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
Just finished Styron’s “Sophie’s Choice” (oof) and started Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” (fun so far). Started third watch of “Sinners,” but switched over to a rewatch of “O Brother Where Art Thou.”
Finished “Stranger Things,” “Pluribus” and “The Staircase in the Woods” by Chuck Wendig. Getting back into “Sophie’s Choice” and a 3000 piece puzzle.
Just finished “American War” by Omar El Akkad and looking for something new. “Knives Out” movie.
Listening to “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt and Rush’s discography in order after finishing Geddy Lee’s “My Effin Life.”
Did we ever figure out who was running DOGE? Was it that woman who was on vacation in Mexico? Did she ever come back? Anyone going to follow up?
Heard this a while back and had to add it to the set list. RIP.
youtu.be/DMb8BhCXNs4?...
Finishing David Blight’s Frederick Douglass and Alice Munro’s Runaway (I know); picking up my daughter from her weeklong trip studying tree rings and climate change in Mammoth Lakes, CA; and taking to the streets to voice some concerns about the current state of things.
Apologies in advance.
