What I'm Reading
Anyone one else in the mood for nostalgia? About two weeks ago I decided I wanted to go back in time when there was no internet or cell phones, and remembered Mary Stewart. I loved Madam, Will You Talk?, and now I'm reading The Moonspinners (which I vaguely remember as a Disney movie long ago).
Another trip into the past was prompted by a recommendation on Twitter: Betty MacDonald's Onions in the Stew. Betty MacDonald lived in Seattle and Vashon Island during World War II, and it's fascinating to read her descriptions (still true today) of Mt. Rainier, the Olympics and the Cascades, and "the ferryboats are white ducks waddling earnestly from shore to shore."
While I was at it, I also borrowed from my library her book, The Plague and I. She recounts her year of recovering from TB at the Seattle Sanitorium The Firlands (in 1911, TB was the leading cause of death in Seattle).With chapter titles like "Oh, Salvadora! Don't Spit on the Floora" this one is keeping me entertained.
And lest you think I'm totally ignoring current events, here are the books I have read, am reading, or intend to read:
My Beloved World, by Sonja Sotomayer.
I Have Something to Tell You, by Chasten Buttigieg
Too Much and Never Enough, by Mary Trump
Promises to Keep, by Joe Biden
Promise Me, Dad, by Joe Biden
Where the Light Enters, by Jill Biden
My Own Words, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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