Lots! Whenever I finish writing a book I slip into hardcore reading mode.
I’m in a mostly non-fiction early Christian era mood.
On my Kindle:
Just finished- Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer’s & Editor’s Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors and Myths, by Susanne Alleyn. Loved it!
Those Incredible Christians, by Hugh Schonfield.
An Old Hebrew Text of St. Matthew’s Gospel: Translated, with an Introduction, Notes and Appendices, Hugh Schonfield.
The Archer’s Tale (The Grail Quest, Book 1), by Bernard Cornwell.
Jesus: First-Century Rabbi, by David Zaslow and Joseph A. Lieberman.
Don’t Fight with the Garden Hose and Other Lessons I’ve Learned Along the Way, by Tom Harvey.
About Infinity Universe and Worlds, Giordano Bruno.
In print:
The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey.
The Passover Plot, by Hugh Schonfield. (On a Schonfield jag.)
In the Heat of the Summer, by John Katzenbach.
A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis.
When I finish, I will go on a positive orgy of reading - meanwhile I just let books sneak in.
The Daughter of Time is a favorite.
I’m finding an hour of gardening takes all the energy I have left after writing - and a apt of recent doctor’s appointments. But the writing comes first, and these is the season to garden - pulling weeds in a hot NJ summer is not something you want to spend too much time at.
Husband, now retired, is doing a wonderful job on pruning - between us we will have the outside of this place looking good quite soon. Things had gotten overgrown - he had very little time for the last couple of years of teaching, and I can’t stand long enough to do much of it. The perennials are doing beautifully, I have a bumper crop of onions (ugh), and the next set of blooms - azaleas - is about to start. It’s worth it.
I do a lot of it sitting on my little orange gardening cart - don’t know if you like to garden, or if you can do it now.
Meanwhile, will keep reading the old favorite - because I know how they end, and I don’t get dragged into the wee hours.
Alicia
I read old favorites too, Alicia. I’m so excited to hear you’ve read The Daughter of Time! I’m really looking forward to reading it. Yes, I garden, loads of vegetables. I’ve got some flowers planted, perennials, but none of my annuals yet. I’ve hired some yard guys to help. My husband has very little time to do any yard work and I can’t. Love my veggie garden though. And we have four fruit trees - apple, sour cherry, lemon and quince. I manage all the fruit.
My reading is struggling at the moment but I am reading ‘Goodbye Junie Moon’ by June Collins a memoir of an Australian woman who was an entertainer in the camps in Vietnam who falls foul of the Senior NCO ‘Mafia’ and is put on a hit list after blowing the whistle on them.
Glad to hear you have finished another book, your time management is impressive my sweets xxxxxx Hugs to Ozcar and Jake
So many intriguing titles in Kindle. I really must join the 21st century some time.
I am into The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner right now.
That first one sounds very interesting. I think I’ll check that one out!
Your mind is like a sponge isn’t it? Always soaking up knowledge.
That’s my goal, Sandra. Expand the mind.
Let me know what you think, Anny!
That’s a good book, Roberta. Have you read The Omnivore’s Dilemma?
I actually have a vague memory of reading that book, Tom. Don’t know why I forgot about it, but I do remember that title.
Have read the Omnivore’s Dilemma. Am not a fan of Michael Pollan nor the food police or food elites.
I do know what you mean, Roberta. But he makes some valid points. My favorite, though, is Catching Fire, How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham.