The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

Roanoke solving the mystery of England's lost colony by Lee miller
 

Just starting a book that sounds rather interesting. It's called Roanoke solving the mystery of England's lost colony by Lee miller
I got interested this topic as a fan of American Horror Story.
One of the seasons was based around this true event, though ahs was not a true depiction of what happened.
Personally I had never heard about this peice of history, but it grabbed my imagination and curiosity.
I will let you know how it goes.

This book was good in the way it brought back all the crazy ass thing Trump did and still got elected into office! I liked her humor as well! I'd recommend this book if you ever come across it!

Series 24 General Securities Principal Exam Manual. I want to pull my hair out.

Upstream
Selected essays

By Mary Oliver


It’s like coming home.

I just finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, which has been on my list since 2002

It was AMAZING. I am Earthseed now.

ALSO finishing it put me at 52 books this year, which was my goal

Aside from working my way through the books Mary Wings wrote after "She came in a flash", "Crash into you" the first of a series of roller derby romances by Diana Morland (only just started it, so far, so good) and various degree-related books, of which I'd like to mention:

- the Royal Horticultural Society A-Z of Garden Plants (OK, not a read so much as an extensive and fascinating source of information - warning - it's very big and heavy!)
- and 'Lower Plants (Anatomy and activity of non-flowering plants and their allies) by C.J.Clegg which is an utterly fascinating, slim but stuffed to the gunwales largish paperback with fascinating information and facts. The stuff on bacteria and viruses and other very small stuff is as interesting as it is horrifying..

Honourable mention to "Thing Explainer (complicated stuff in simple words)" by Randall Munroe (the creator of the XKCD website), which I have been dipping into now and then since it was published. Educational, fun, and a comment on language all in one go - what's not to love?

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet by John Branch

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...st-deaths.html

In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year later, to find them and bring them home.

Tremble and Burn by Anna Furtado

When Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg arrives in San Francisco from Baltimore in December, 1905, to begin a medical practice funded by wealthy matrons, she’s not only running toward a new life-she’s running away from her old one. Threats from a ruthless brother, who threatened to expose her affair with a woman, make Elizabeth determined not to compromise her reputation as she begins this new phase of her life. All is well, until she meets Maggie Weston.

Maggie, a photographer with a thriving studio on Market Street also harbors a secret, which brought her to San Francisco from Boston a few years before. Her work and her independence are fulfilling. She thinks she doesn’t need anything more in her new life other than her photography that is, until Elizabeth Kellogg walks into her shop.
Just started it but so far so good...:hangloose:

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.

I just finished his newish book, The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, which details how Lyra came to Oxford so I had to read TGC again because it's been ages.


Teaser...
Part 1: Oxford
Meet our protagonist, Lyra, and her daemon Pantalaimon (the shape-shifting animal that is her soul), or Pan for short. They live at Oxford University's Jordan College, among scholars and other brainy-types. Lyra is an orphan whose parents were killed when she was very young. Her uncle, Lord Asriel, is her guardian. He's a powerful and sometimes scary man involved with politics. For the most part, though, she is cared for by the scholars at Oxford University, where she is also friends with a kitchen boy named Roger.

When the book opens, Lord Asriel has returned from the North, where he has been conducting experiments involving something called Dust. What is Dust? Well, it's something very, very important in the book, and we later learn that the Church thinks Dust is, more or less, the equivalent of original sin. We also find out that Dust develops in children when they get older and their daemon stops shifting and takes on the form of a specific animal.

Back to the opening scene, Lyra figures out that Lord Asriel has been exploring the existence of different worlds – not heaven or hell, but worlds just like this one that exist in another dimensions. During this episode, Lyra also foils a plot by the Master of Jordan College to poison Lord Asriel, and her uncle returns to the North. In an overheard conversation between the Master and the Librarian, it also becomes clear that Lyra is destined to play a part in everything that's unfolding – but what kind of a part? We're still not sure.
Taken from https://www.shmoop.com/golden-compass/summary.html

Bettyville.........
 

When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will.


Sidebar:
If you've cared for or are caring for an aging parent, this will make you laugh and cry all at the same time.

Bought a copy for a friend, and then decided to read it, too... Just starting, so no feedback, yet.

Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

The Color of Water (James McBride). :)

The Everyday Witch by Deborah Blake.

Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff. It's even better now that Bannon is back pedaling.

I read this a while back. I thought it was very good.

I'm still reading Stone Butch Blues (and crying), but I would like to some read of Ivan Coyote's works next.

Has anyone read them before?

I caved in and picked up a copy of Fire and Fury........

The Dark Lord’s Handbook, Paul Dale

The Odyssey again but for the first time in a long while. The Fagles translation. I tried reading the new Emily Wilson translation because it is supposed to be kind of feminist, but it was jarring. The language was too every day. I am kind of disappointed. I was predisposed to like it based on reviews. Plus I paid twenty bucks for it. Oh well. Maybe I'll try it again someday. I like Fagles though. Accessible but still poetic.

On Kindle, The Thru Hiking Will Break Your Heart

On paper, The first Harry Potter book

and next week....

Textbooks :)

My latest read is from a book gifted to me, titled .....

The House Girl by Tara Conklin.

Synopsis from the back cover of the book about the story and the author:

"Lisa Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on an historic class action suit seeking reparations for the decedent's of American slaves. Josephine is a seventeen year old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia farm, an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. Alternating between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York. The House Girl is an searing tale of art, history, love, and secrets that intertwines the stories of two remarkable women," -- Marie Claire.

Tara Conklin has worked as an litigator in the New York and London offices of a corporate law firm but now devotes time to writing fiction. Conklin received a B.A. in History from Yale University, a JD from New York University School of Law, and an Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Born in St Croix, Conklin grew up in Massachusetts and now lives with her family in Seattle, Washington. The House Girl is Conklin's first novel.

https://dynamic.indigoimages.ca/book...sale=8&lang=en

Oh, I've read that book and enjoyed it very much!

Alice Miller
 

"The Witch's Coin" by Christopher Penczak.

Wiring Simplified, 45th edition

I'm SO jealous, I wanted to read that but the store was all out..........:giggle:

Getting ready to start Hunger by Roxane Gay.

I just finished Rupi Kaur's poetry collection milk and honey.

Definitely do NOT recommend it. It was trite, contrived, and downright nonsensical at times. I hate to say that because I want to support contemporary women poets, but... this had no redeeming qualities.

Currently ready a 100+ page client contract.

Behold, my joy. :vigil:

For school I'm reading Frederick Douglass' memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave.

It's a very good read. Douglass' writing is beautifully descriptive. I'm sure that this will cause some difficulty in reading as I go on, but I've only just started reading it thus far.

For my own self, I'm reading a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. Another excellent writer. I enjoy it very much so far.

I also picked up a book on statistics but every time I open it I feel sleepy. Something about math makes my eyes just want to close.

I just breezed through an excellent short story written by James Patterson. The Medical Examiner is about a group of friends who work in professional agency settings and how they solve murder mysteries. If you like clear, concise, fast paced, page turner stories, you'll like Patterson as an writer of short story, crime fiction novels.

https://img.yumpu.com/59318225/1/358...jpg?quality=85

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

...this is so lyrical and beautiful (so far). I wonder if I would dare watch the movie adaptation. I’m not sure how it could represent the beauty of this book’s written style.

"The Magnolia Story" by Chip and Joanna Gaines. This was a get-well soon gift from a friend while I was laid up with the flu. It's the story of the HGTV "Fixer Upper" couple Chip and Joanna Gaines. Not a book I would normally pick up but a sweet story about their life and relationship. If you like their show you will probably enjoy the book. Good to read when you are sick and just want something you can pick up, put down, and pick up again without losing any plot. Having said that, as soon as I finish it will be heading to the closest "Little Free Library." Ok to read but not a keeper.


Katniss~~

I've heard about these "short shots" of Patterson's! Good to hear they are a hit!

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

*shiver*

A Clockwork Orange