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6/29/2021

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Pew by Catherine Lacey
The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell
Actual Air by David Berman
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
2666 by Roberto Bolano
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Distracted by James M. Lang
What It Is by Lynda Barry
Via Negativa by Daniel Hornsby
Drifts by Kate Zambreno
The Searcher by Tana French
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (audiobook)
Memorial by Bryan Washington
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Back in Black by Rhys Ford (audiobook)
Actress by Anne Enright
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
Severed Wings by Steven-Elliot Altman
We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (audiobook)
The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez (audiobook)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (audiobook)
Let's Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall
My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee
The Scapegoat by Sara Davis
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
Appleseed by Matt Bell
City of Margins by William Boyle
The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (audiobook)
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Devolution by Max Brooks (audiobook)
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
The Bright Lands by John Fram
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley (audiobook)
Inspection by Josh Malerman
Subdivision by J. Robert Lennon
The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (audiobook)
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Bubble (graphic novel) by Morris, Morgan, Cliff, and Riess
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (audiobook)
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Boy Wonder by James Robert Baker
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill (audiobook)
Rovers by Richard Lange
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thompson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig (audiobook)
Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
Godspeed by Nickolas Butler
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

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Current Delights 6.17.21

6/17/2021

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Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea 1947

You can listen to one of the audiobooks I narrated, and it won't cost you a thing! It's The Tethering by Megan O'Russell, the first book in a 4-part young adult fantasy series. Happy June Is Audiobook Month!
Raya and the Last Dragon is absolutely gorgeous. Looking forward to catching In the Heights soon.
Today I'm making this excellent lemony-potato salad with mint today. (It's a staple side dish for me)
My research for audiobook narration sends me down all kinds of interesting searches. Here's an article I stumbled across while looking up "Bowie Knife" --> Talk Like a Texan: The Pronunciation of Bowie Knife, Jim Bowie, and David Bowie. I thought it was "BOE-ee," but while that's what many people also think, it sounds more like "BOO-ee."
"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now." Hugh Laurie.
Currently reading Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots; listening to Max Brooks's Devolution (which is a fictional Sasquatch horror novel told in journal entries, interviews, reports, etc. it's got a full cast with Judy Greer at the helm and it's so good).
Oliver Burkeman has one of my favorite newsletters (and if you click the link on his name, you can sign up on that page). Today's installment included thinking about anxiety:

And you find it above all, in my experience, not with any kind of mental insight or cognitive exercise, but in action: inching forward into the future, doing tiny bits of the things that are causing the anxiety, committing a little more to the relationships you're feeling tentative about – and discovering, in each moment, further concrete evidence than in fact you can cope with what reality tosses your way. ("It's easier to act yourself into new ways of thinking than to think yourself into new ways of acting.") My life so far provides zero reason to believe I'll ever attain the degree of control over the future I always thought I needed. But then again, my track record of not yet having been entirely overwhelmed by existence suggests that maybe I never needed it to begin with.

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