What are you reading the week of Sunday, July 19, 2015?

[hermetic]

Just managed to get back here. Maybe I should be a host or whatever it takes here to pin a thread. I'd be willing.

Meanwhile, finished All the Light We Cannot See. A really great book but I don't agree with the critics who called it uplifting. I found it horribly depressing and infuriating. We are dealing with that same mindset and game plan now, it seems to me, and I don't like it one bit. There is nothing redeeming about war. Granted, we FINALLY got around to looking into those "camps", but it was a bit late. We need to stop this sort of thing before it takes hold. Maybe reading this book will make others see "the light," but I am not optimistic.

Now I am reading The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. I am finding it quite amusing. I love how she turns a phrase. Her relative wanted to be "incinerated and strewn." I'm still chuckling over that. It is sad, as our protagonist suffers such degradation and abuse. But he forges cheerfully ahead, into the weather of Newfoundland, which is about as bleak as it can get. I look forward to see what happens next. I am halfway through.

Happy reading!