It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4-20-20 #IMWAYR

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Currently Reading

Today’s a Monday holiday for some of us in Massachusetts (and Maine) — Patriots’ Day — and it’s usually Marathon Monday, but there’s no race today. For the first time in 124 years, the Boston Marathon has been rescheduled.

On a quarantine-weekend impulse, I started organizing my out-of-control email yesterday, and then obsessively kept sorting and deleting all morning today. (Why so long? I started with over 14,000 emails still in my inbox — almost 15,000, actually.)

So now I’m in a rush to do a quick blog post, because my family is doing a virtual group watch of the play Mala at 4:00 p.m. and meeting up on Zoom to talk about it at 5:30.

My current print book (from my own collection) is Terra Incognita by Connie Willis, an seven-time Nebula Award and twelve-time Hugo Award winner. I think I’ve read the three novellas in it before, actually, because they’ve all been published before and I might have read them when they came out.

But Connie Willis is one of my all-time favorite authors and rereading is still a pleasure. She writes speculative fiction with an emphasis on character, story, and language — balancing all with humor and a keen curiosity about human nature and society in the future. Her numerous allusions to literature, film, and history make readers feel in the know, as if we too could be as smart as her if we didn’t fritter so much time away cleaning out our inboxes.

From Tor Books: Where to Start with the Works of Connie Willis

I’m reading two nonfiction e-books downloaded from the library through OverDrive: Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher and Year of No Sugar by Eve Schaub, who also wrote A Year of No Clutter that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.

Currently Listening

Listen to an excerpt from Spinning Silver.

Please comment to let me know what you’re reading this week. Thank you for visiting!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, are, and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever-growing TBR pile! This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at Book Date.