Picked up next 2 volumes at a City Library branch. I like these.

Pretty good graphic novel version. I need to find Vol. 2 now!

I have never seen the series, just clips now and then, nor have I read the books. This will give me an idea of what's going on.

Starting a book of historical fiction about a woman passing for white in a racist time.

Intriguing story of some Chippewas in 1950s North Dakota and a fight to prevent Federal termination of the tribe. Includes some magic realism. I intend to read more by this author.

Starting a book by Loise Erdrich. I have not read any of hers yet.

Not bad short novel of a picaresque black man involved with an illegal slave ship who take a mystical tribe captive. Reminds me somewhat of Ring Shout. Some magic realism and a gruesome survival story.

Starting a book that looks good. Actually two books in one. Seems quite amusing so far as they look for a rental house in Vermont.

Quite a survival story of shipwrecked sailors in West Africa enslaved by Arab or local tribesmen. Very traumatic. Good people helped save some of them.

Quite interesting story of Pueblo indians and their customs in old New Mexico before the Spanish came. The writing is somewhat old fashioned and it is rather long, but it is still worth reading if you are interested in the Pueblos. The story has heroes and villains and a love story. It does make you want to know more.

Starting a survival story of sailors held captive in North Africa.

Truly interesting book centered on events of 1893, including Columbia Exposition, the first modern World‘s Fair. Book covers fashion and bicycles, architecture, baseball, famous rich people, sanitation with the building of a canal and reversing Chicago River, etc. A good read if interested!

I am trying out this old novel about cliff dwellers near Los Alamos, NM. Author was a scientist who died in 1914.

Really interesting story of the 1930‘s flashy dress designer who fell in love with China and brought back the first live panda. It went to Brookfield Zoo in Chicago area. Author did a lot of research and it reads very well like Seabiscuit a few years ago.

Started a book on Chicgo which I just visited

Really interesting book about learning techniques that seem counterintuitive like mixing up topics and taking a lot of breaks. I found out some of these when I read Make It Stick, a while back. Worthwhile!

Someone told me this was really good several years ago!

Quite a fun book about an actor, Russ Tamblyn, who started really young and had a pretty good career in the studio system. He turned away from that and was into the counterculture and art. He became popular again with Twin Peaks. He finally got a marriage right with his third one. I enjoyed it but it did get just a bit long.

Great story about a unique woman who is mentored to become a healer and detective after the Great War (WW1). I can see how it could be an addictive series. For some reason I am drawn to First World War stories.

Starting an autobiography of Russ Tamblyn, actor and dancer, who was in first West Side Story movie.

Really good story about good and evil and what happens to a person without much love. Somewhat different from the James Dean movie which does not even have two main characters, Lee from China and Sam from Ireland. I would like to see the Salinas area.

Started a book that many like. Supposed to be a good series.

Starting a book on learning. I am interested.

OK stories about NYC people. Barkeepers, old people, runaways, and others. Mostly right after 9-11. Best for native New Yorkers probably.

Starting a classic I have meant to read for a long time.

Really good story with a lot of humor. Almost like Pratchett. Kind of a loser finds love and self-expression dealing with his brother, Spider. I have not seen the TV series.

Starting a Neil Gaiman I have not read yet.

Great story of two brothers from Massachusetts who end up at Gettysburg during Civil War. Has poetic parts but also very gritty. Map is of second day of 3.

Starting a book found at a thrift store. Looks interesting to me about New Yotk City life.

Stimulating book on importance of close relationships. Veterans miss the closeness they had and their problems in society are more to do with their solitary life after the military than with trauma.

I have started this one. Looks interesting.

It was quite different, not like Native Son, for instance. Quite Biblical and a bit hard for me to get through, but poetic and gritty at the same time. The preacher‘s story made me think of Scarlet Letter. My first by him.

Good short tale of hoarding and value of things with romance. Graphic novels go fast! Well drawn.

Also reading a graphic YA novel found at local library.

Starting historical novel about Gettysburg in the Civil War. I am always into that era!

Picking a title from my big TBR pile. Looks interesting. I enjoy music even though I may be tone deaf!

Poignant story of Japanese American soldier who fought with honor against Germans in Europe. He succeeded as a soldier despite a lot of prejudice at home. His family was at Topaz camp in Utah.

An amazing story of how the author was able to get her mother and brother out of North Korea after living illegally in China for a while. Very honest and eventually having a happy conclusion. Also tells of the extreme kindness of a friendly Australian. A life affirming book.

I am reading this one now about Japanese American soldiers in Europe during the big war, while their families were interned in camps back home!

More complete version of the diary. She was hoping to be a writer and rewrote some of it. This version put back the parts censored by her father in the first edition. A remarkable teenager! Sad to lose her along with many others.

Starting a new book recommended by a library coworker.

Good story and not too long but the language is kind of archaic. My first George Eliot. Some day I will read Middlemarch which is much longer. Silas suffers somewhat like Job but is redeemed with his adopted daughter in the end.

Starting a classic I have never read.

Really good fantasy and readable and I can see why some people like it so much. I enjoyed it. Maybe I am into so much NF now or I would be more into it. Like a dream.

Starting a book I borrowed from my daughter.

Good parallel account of the meeting of Rumi with Shams, a Sufi, which made him become a poet, and a modern day woman trying to make sense of her loveless marriage, who also meets a modern Sufi. I learned about Sufism and can see its attraction and the need for love, but I am not as enthralled with it as others might be. Still it is good. I began following Shafak.

I remember that I did read this a few years ago. Does a good summary.

I am rereading a more complete version of this famous diary. I have read the original version before. If you know about the first edition, you find out it was heavily edited and Anne herself had not used what she first wrote but added to it later. This one came out in 1995, and is longer and better. An important witness of that tragic time. I have a German copy too.

Quite good account of his life and work in publishing. Kind of like having an old friend remembering. Stories about authors and family, etc

Started a book I got for free at a Library sale and I am really enjoying it.