My reading right now continues to be a rich and varied selection…
Mei-Ling Considers Trying Jamaican Food!
The Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week. Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines. The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list. If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.
Once again, this is not a book review column. It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.
I’m enjoying hearing what you folks are reading, too!
Recently Completed:
The Bends In The Road: A Memoir by Svenn Lindskold. Svenn is my great-uncle, half-brother of my paternal grandfather, a relative I met only after I was an adult, but whom I’ve come to really like. This is a thoughtful look at a life of over eighty years, full of rich detail.
In Progress:
Mister Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Audiobook. Slow build based around a puzzle reminds me quite a bit of Ready Player One. A lot fewer fight scenes, less Eighties trivia, replaced by computer trivia.
Kebra Nagast edited by Gerry Hausman. Very dense, so reading slowly.
Jerk From Jamaica: Barbecue Caribbean Style by Helen Willinsky. Food and how it is prepared is a terrific window into a culture. Helen Willinsky’s introduction alone would make this book a great find, but each section, sometimes each recipe, has a little write up that makes this a gem.
Also:
Wolf’s Soul is done in rough draft, so I’m re-reading, polishing, tinkering.
Jane Lindskold: Wednesday Wanderings 
October 11, 2019 at 6:13 am |
I, too, am reading Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore. I started the hardback version last night as my bedtime read. After I placed it on my nightstand and turned off the light, I got a surprise – the cover glowed in the dark! What a hoot!
October 11, 2019 at 7:48 am |
That is cute! My audio doesn’t glow in the dark, but thumbs up to the studio who found a way to make the parts where the main character is listening to an audiobook sound different from the rest.