At last, I’m starting to get the hang of the new WordPress block system! It’s probably not even considered new anymore.
I’m still struggling with getting the images to be sized correctly. From the back end, as I create the post, the book covers are all showing up as the same size, but when I preview how the post will look, some of the images are huge and others are tiny.
Since most of my posts include book cover images, I really should take some time to figure this out!
Currently Reading
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
This huge historical novel is definitely a Big Book Summer read! At 928 pages, The Evening and the Morning (a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth) should really count as two books! haha
Enormous WIngs by Laurie Frankel
Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. – Publisher
Laurie Frankel is one of my favorite authors. She writes with humor and empathy, often about families dealing realistically with situations such as having a transgender child that have been politicized and demonized in this country.
Whistler by Ann Patchett
A moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time – Publisher
Ann Patchett is another favorite author, so I’m reading this one now before I get spoilers about it from everyone else reading it before me!
Recently Read
Currently Listening To
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
This is not going to be relaxing or soothing, but it will definitely count for Big Book Summer at 896 pages and 1,564 minutes on audio! (Couldn’t the publisher do the math for us? Over 26 hours, yikes!)
Recently Listened To
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface – Publisher
My first audiobook for Big Book Summer completed, even though I haven’t even announced that I’m joining the challenge yet! Katabasis (18.5 hours on audio) is a fantasy novel about two graduate students in the field of Magick literally going to hell. Just found out that one of my adult daughters is reading this in print and enjoying it in that format, as well!
This post is linked up to It’s Monday, What Are You Reading, hosted by The Book Date. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a place to meet up and share what you have been and are currently reading each week. Visit today’s link-up for more books to add to your groaning TBR pile.
