Here’s my current reading, with a few ebooks not pictured. I used to post this to instagram nearly every Friday. The last time I posted one of these “to be read” book towers was Oct 6, 2023. It’s understandable that while books are my comfort, it didn’t feel right. I’m still trying to figure out things now, but it feels time to try again.
Rereads:
- Demers, Knitting Comfortably. I checked this out from the library that fateful week. I finally purchased my own copy a few weeks ago. It’s helpful as I figure out ways to help many of the knitters and crocheters I work with adapt for challenges such as arthritic fingers.
- Caro, The Power Broker. I first read this in 1999. I’ve been rereading it with a friend who is reading it for the first time. To now have my mid-40s experience and understand a lot more about NYC (and not just Long Island) … it’s quite fascinating. I’ll likely chase it with Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, as I did back then.
- Torah! I’m sort of helping @thejewishknitter with her Torah Tallis project and need to keep up with her as well as the weekly parshah.
New-to-me Reads:
- Zevahim. This is the current daf yomi tractate and it’s challenging for me. I’m waiting for the rabbis to get bored too and have an interesting off-topic discussion.
- Greenburg, The Triumph of Life. I am reading this very slowly. There’s a lot in here and I’m only on Part 2, Covenant as a Method of World Repair.
- McEneely, Compendum of Finishing Techniques. Ok, this may be a reread; I’ve not checked my records. It came home with me this morning when I returned another book. As I keep writing, I’m helping with the sisterhood blanket project and often end up taking home blankets and finishing them. I’m eager to learn new ways to try to teach this topic.
- Acho & Tishby, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew. This is the sisterhood bookclub reading for November (Oct is McBride, The Color of Water) and I’ve listened to half of it as audiobook but I want to finish.
- Keret (translated by Cohen and Silverston). It was a slim book of shortstories on the new books shelf at the library. The flyleaf caught my eye “From one of the preeminent literary voices in Israel comes a darkly funny collection of surrealist stories exploring the increasingly complex relationship between humans and technology.” I keep saying I’ll reread Piercy’s He, She and It (the first book my late MIL ever gave me to read), but I haven’t yet.
- Grant, Overgrowth. I’m a fangirl, and the final sentence on the fly-leaf blurb hooked me: “What happens when you know what’s coming, and just refuse to listen?”
NetGalley ebooks to read/review:
- McEwan, What We Can Know. This is out already and I’m slowly getting into it.
- White, The Fox and the Devil. Looks interesting.
- Armstrong, First Sign of Danger. I devoured this series and I’m just too eager to read the next book, so I requested it.
Library Ebooks:
- Becker, More Everything Forever. Continuing my read whatever I can find about modern AI
- Silva, A Death in Vienna. I’m enjoying this series; I don’t know why I’d not discovered it until this past summer.
- Penrose, The Diamond of London. I’ve read nearly everything she’s published and this stand-alone has me hooked.
If you want to keep up with what I’m doing/reading please check out my now page, I try to keep it updated.
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