flight paths discussion

December is delicious not just because of the food. The festive lights uplift our mood and long quiet nights give us more opportunity to read. How delicious to be bundled up under the covers with something you've been saving up.
What have you got going?
What have you planned?

May this tumultuous year find a peaceful conclusion.

just wondering if this group post did not make it out. I know im not receiving group notifications but i did hope to find out what people are up to.

I'm just completed a reading cycle not planned but has anyone else find that happening where the 2 or 3 books you are reading are all finished within a day of each other? not intentionally.
I finally finished the flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner. It is a dense book and it really captures the spirit of the laye sixties early seventies in New York and Rome. I noticed that Ellie wrote a superlative review.
This morning I read the last
story in William Dalyrumples 9 tales about extreme desvotional sects in modern Inda. And I could have finished Disordered World today but held back to r÷ad in the morning.
sorry about not linking but my computer is acting up and won't start so I am on the phone. It feels like midnight but its only 9pm

New moon blessings ( )
peace and

Sorry to not drop in sooner.

I like it when I finish a few books within days of each other. It balances out the times when I'm reading multiple books and not finishing any. Both situations occur. The first is most satisfying.

It's been a quiet few weeks for me in the reading department. I'm only getting some bedtime reading in each day.
I'm really enjoying They Were Divided.

thats great Petra. so many times the third volume runs out of steam. i am really looking forward to reading this.
I feel a bit disoriented sometimes before Ive been able to make the switch from one set of realities to another constellation. I was with that lot for quite a while. Each one seemed to compliment the other while being completely different kinds of book.The common theme is displacement in this disordered world although 9 lives emphasizes the continuity of tradition and is more concerned with spiritual displacement

I will share what Im getting into when Im next on the machine for easy links.

May everyone be safe and warm and reading the perfect book %-)

yesterday and part of today I could not access GR at all.
It made me realize that I'm counting on my lists here too much.
I am at last rewriting the lost reviews and finding that I can barely recall some of these books from the early months of the year.

Have started my new batch of books and making slow progress with the Barnes essays which are good but quite outside my focus right now. I am stalled on an essay about Rudyard Kipling. I had no idea he had such an interesting life but I am having a hard time staying awake for it. Julian Barnes Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and a Short Story

Actually reading an old title on my tbr from 2015 I think, The People's Platform:Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor
Its exciting but very dated.

For fun I have returned to Arkady Martines multiverse. with the sequel A Desolation Called Peace
It was quite a bit easier getting back into the story than it was first getting into it as I seem to have retained a bit and I was prepared.

May everyone be peaceful and bright

The TBR pile does not grow in its list, just the number of supporting prequels and sequels. That's the crux of finding good authors. Have started on one Magdelanye's recommendations Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yōko Tawada

Well Ice, I hope it is as much fun as it looks.
I absolutely cheat by excluding prequels and sequels and in fact other works by the same author, unless I fear I may forget.

I needed a wedge Book. Heres one for our library
The Maintenance of Headwayby Magnus Mills No it isnt a poetry book but a fable starring bus drivers.

Susan Aposhyan is the other new book I started yesterday. Heart Open, Body Awake: Four Steps to Embodied Spirituality She is a refreshing voice and just what I need to hear right now.

And heaven help me, I have finally found the courage to begin the introduction to Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice It gets right to the point and when she articulates it, its not awkward fringe opinion its facts backed up with pages of references. This is a very serious book but not ponderous and I might not be able to take it in big gulps, but I am on it. That its so well written and so necessary that will make it a bit easier to pick up.

Ellie I notice we havent heard from you all month. I am trusting that you are resting gathering strength.
Megan I sure hope that your crises is over and that you your little one and your sig other are all well and in the mood for this crazy season.

In fact, whatever you are celebrating or not celebrating I just hope that in the days leading up to these holidays that you are immune to the frenzy and curled up with your books at home.

Hi all. I'm sorry I've been away for so long.

I am not doing much of anything. I'm rereading Rebecca--again. I've read it many times but I always love it. It's a comfort read.

I'm also slowly making my way through Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint which is interesting. It seems her vision is impossible to realize but maybe we should be reaching for the impossible.

I also just started Cloud Cuckoo Land but it's too early for me to express an opinion.

Hope you are all well, My daughter and I are off tonight to see Kathleen Turner's one-woman show. It should (hopefully) be interesting.

great to hear from you Ellie and that you are enjoying not doing much of anything. How was the show?

I did not get much reading done today but I did write a couple of reviews. I just began The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak for a treat and Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice for a deeper look into the subject.

May this find everyone safe and warm and happy with what you are reading

Magdelanye wrote: "great to hear from you Ellie and that you are enjoying not doing much of anything. How was the show?

I did not get much reading done today but I did write a couple of reviews. I just began [book:T..."

The show was amazing. All the magic that theater can be. She was wonderful. I'm so grateful Katie found out about it and I decided to take a chance and go with her. We both loved it. I want to go see every performance she ever did!

Ellie, it's nice that you can relax and enjoy the Season. The show sounds wonderful. I'm so glad you & your daughter could go to it.

I'm back to some reading. I finally got the Christmas gifts made and wrapped. I had a blast making them all. But I'm now glad to get back to some regular reading.

I read 1984: The Graphic Novel and enjoyed this rendition. The graphics were well drawn and portrayed the bleak, lonely, horrible society of the story.

I'm still reading and enjoying They Were Divided. Now that I will read more than a couple pages at bedtime, I'll begin to make real progress. Can't wait to see how this story ends.

Petra, I have They Were Divided but haven't yet read it. I'm interested in seeing what you think of it.

I finished Rebecca, which I loved as much as always. I'm still finishing Blessed are the Consumers and getting into Cloud Cuckoo Land so nothing new to report there.