https://youmightaswellread.com/2026/01/10/a-fan-some-pans-and-back-again-ian-mcewans-what-we-can-know/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/0-1-4.jpg0-1A little untimely, but I always thing that it's really the first full week of January that marks the end of the holidays, don't you? Formally christened "Katy," that name was lost to here forever on her first visit to the Vet, who took one look at her & exclaimed "she doesn't look like a cat at all! She's more like a little bear!" Shy & elusive, Po-Bear spends most of her life living in closets & under the coffee table. Mr. J's shot is a rare coup!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/0-2.jpgMy Second New Year's resolution: get those books off the floor and onto some shelves. My feline overlords, unfortunately, offer only supervisory assistance . . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/0-4.jpg0-4The first Ian McEwan novel that I've read in two decades . . . . . . and what did I think of it?  Well, you'll just have to scroll down to find out!  Fear not, Gentle Readers,  I've inserted lots of subheadings to make it easy for you to skip the boring bits!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0-17.jpeg0-17Yeah! She's finally stopped yammering! Nap is next!2026-02-03T00:19:38+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2025/01/27/maria-gainzas-optic-nerve/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/gentle-challenge-dec.-3.jpg.webpgentle-challenge-dec.-3.jpgAs you can see, there's something here for everyone! Aside from Category #8 ("Re-reading Makes The Heart Grow Fonder") my own favorite is Silvia's "Shelf Monster" (Category #5), with its gigantic menacing cat!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/0-3.jpeg0-3A lovely digressive stroll through time, memory & art: María Gainza's Optic Nerve2025-01-29T02:13:56+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2024/11/11/my-very-impressionistic-take-on-2024s-booker/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-2-1.jpeg0-2Two of these novels (History & Friends) made my own short listDespite a few reservations, these were interesting novels with much to offer, https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-7.jpegWho knows? Certainly not the Booker Frog.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-1-1.jpeg0-1Doing a little bit (never enough) of interesting travel. I finally made it to Berlin & Dresden, with their fabulous art museums.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-5.jpegRemodeling part of my house. This was formerly my bedroom, converted to a construction site for a month or so . . . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-28.jpeg0-28Surviving hurricanes (one last year and two this fall). This tree belongs to my next door neighbor. Although Mr. J & I, along with house and cats, escaped untouched, my area suffered a great deal of damage, particularly on the barrier islands. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-25.jpeg0-25Fighting off feral house cats! Don't be deceived -- this is a yawn, not a snarl (Percy spends most of his time sleeping)https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-8.jpeg0-8A little wildlife viewing (from a spring time birding trip to western Ohio). American Bald Eagles are no longer endangered, but it's not every day that you get to see a nest with a chick!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-6.jpeg0-6Who knows?https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-4.jpeg0-4James was my first novel by Percy Everett (about time, wouldn't you say?) It says things that desperately need to be said, but I respected it more than I loved it. Although I'm not terribly demanding in the way of plot, I needed more than Orbital provided.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0-3.jpeg0-3A tie, for opposite reasons, between Yael van der Woden's The Safekeep & Anne Michael's Held.2024-11-23T15:07:21+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2023/07/09/my-2023-reading-part-i/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-2.jpegIsn't it sad, when bad things happen to good books (which both of these are)? It was just the wrong time for the Murdoch. I will return! As for Arthur Philips, well, not so sure. I've occasionally enjoyed his work in the past, but after a hundred pages or so I just lost interest in this one.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-1.jpegThe Lord of Beach Towel Mountain says "it's time to sack out!"https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-11.jpeg0-11xxxxxxxxxxhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-9-1.jpeg0-9xxxxxxxxxhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0.jpegUnbeknownst to me, Saltz is a very prominent art critic indeed, writing for New York magazine for many years & winning a Pultizer in 2018. This collection of essays, obits & reviews is perfect for reading tiny bit at a time. His material here ranges from Caravaggio to Kara Walker and is perfect for tiny, bite sized reading!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-9.jpeg0-9This was my second novel by Johnson, a writer to whom I've become ever-so-slightly addicted. Although I'm still not sure that the plot entirely worked for me, I loved her setting, a small seaside town in Belgium and her very believable characters, am English couple on holiday with their young son. In May, I read another Johnson novel, The Last Resort, but I'm saving my discussion of that one for Part II of my catch-up post!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-14.jpeg0-14XXXXXXXXXXXXXhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0-12.jpeg0-12One of my rare forays into non-fiction. I had no intention of reading this biography at this particular time, but, bored and browsing through it I quickly became absorbed.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/lf.webplfPoetic style and setting hooked me in, but I stopped reading when the orphan cygnets showed up. I just knew something bad was going to happen to them and couldn’t face it! (if anyone can reassure me on this point, I’ll finish the book)https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0-24-1.jpeg0-24This is McNally Editions' recent re issuance of Leon Feuchtwangler's great novel. I adore this publisher (thanks again, Jacquiwine, for telling me about this publisher!); it re-issues great, frequently overlooked fiction in beautifully crafted books. The cover illustion is a sort of aof half flap, which you can remove if you like (although you'd be foolish to do so IMO) or use as a bookmark. Does anyone recognize the painting? Although I've spent hours trying to identify it, I've been unable to do so. The two little figures on either side are three-dimensional versions of details from a Bosch painting (I thought they were appropriate, given the subject of Feuchtwangler's novel.2024-07-14T12:45:52+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/10/28/__trashed/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0.jpegI've only read the books on the right (the ones standing upright), all selected to fit categories in my Challenges. The others are books I've been "dipping" into as the mood strikes. The bottom two are actually exhibition catalogues, which means I only look at the pictures!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0-1-2.jpeg0-1https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/51pqwtngss.jpg51P+qWTnGsSxxxxxxhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/51i85f3x6sl.jpg51I85F3X6sLBeware, beware of Mockbeggar Woods, particularly if you're a member of the Gonne family, whose fate is ruled by an ancestral curse tied to this semi-sentient forest. Small Angels BTW is a rustic, deserted chapel used by the Gonne family to perform the rites keeping the evil at bay. When Chloe?, a village outsider unaware of the lurking evil decides selects it as the site of her wedding, well -- https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/41zrnfal5fl.jpg41ZRnFAl5fLDo you like creepy Gothic novels with a psychological twist? A hint of the strange, underlying the rational world? If so, you might enjoy this elegantly written novel, in which a mother grieving the loss of her teenage daughter becomes enthralled by a young stranger who shows up at her door. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/48848247.jpg48848247xxxxxxxxhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0-4-1.jpeg0-4The Picos de Europa. The birding there was actually not so great, but with scenery like this, who cares?https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0-8.jpeg0-8The Cabo Peñas (one of the most northern points in Spain) was one of my favorite stops. Aside from being a migration spot, it also has a great old lighthouse (Mr. J, als, couldn't get this into his photo) https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0-4.jpeg0-4It's a little hard to see in this photo, but even his (it's a male painted bunting) eye ring is bright red!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0-7.jpeg0-7This gives a good view of his back. Again, the light isn't great, or you'd see that the green is actually very bright!2023-02-22T14:01:19+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/08/31/summer-update-butterflies-books-donuts/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-13.jpegAlthough I've read little poetry for a great many years now, this summer I found that I needed it again in my life. I've focused mainly on Emily Dickinson, a poet that's taken me a life time to appreciate. Slowly, slowly, slowly, with lots of help from Helen Vendler, I've been working my way through Dickinson's odd rhythms, elliptical thoughts and breathtaking images . . .https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-1-3.jpeg0-1Well, we all have our favorite food item, don't we? I love sushi, myself. I can't imagine that this big old fish came from the tiny little pond near my house; since Ospreys have a reversible claw that allows them to carry their fish, it's probably from a nearby river. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-12.jpegI love Ospreys, although I probably wouldn't if I were a fish (Ospreys are also known as "fish hawks," since that's what they eat). This one looks ready to go mano a mano with Mr. J., who's fortunately at a safe distance. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-3-2.jpeg0-3This slender novel, published by New Directions Press, was perhaps my most challenging read of the summer. The narrator, a Vietnamese women living in Paris, takes you on a journey through her youth in Ha Noi, her failed marriage, her university days in the former Soviet Union and her fantasies, all in the course of a few hours when she's stuck on the Paris metro. Claustrophic, hallicunatiory, poetic and fMy first exphttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-1-2.jpeg0-1Does anyone still doubt that Elizabeth Taylor is one of the 20th century greats? If so, they should read Mrs. Palfrey. It's one of the funniest novels I've ever read, and so heart-breaking I put off finishing it for weeks . . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-9.jpegSince I had never read anything by Pushkin, I was hesitant to start off with his "experiments in prose." I need not have worried! https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-8-1.jpeg0-8I love books about books and, when I venture out of straight fiction, tend to read them. Because Castillo discusses "reading" in a broad sense (she include signage, movies & TV, as well as books themselves), in many respects this is more of a collection of essays on, generally, how we "read" our cultural surroundings. Fierce, opinionated and passionate, with no use for the traditional literary canon, Castillo isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea. While not always agreeing, I found many of her views to be a valuable correction to my own very traditional education. If you're interested in Joan Didion, Castillo's devastating analysis of the latter's fiction is alone worth the price of admission. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-6-1.jpeg0-6Long listed for the Booker, Trust appears to be generating a bit of a buzz. I enjoyed it enormously, myself. Told in four different styles/modes (novel; autobiography; memoir & diary entry) by four different narrators, the structure is very clever indeed; I also found the different voices of the narrators distinct and well done. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-10.jpeg0-10A few years ago I read Irmgard Keun's Child of All Nations and enjoyed it a great; so much so I supplied myself with several additional Keun novels! I finally got around to reading After Midnight, one of her best known, and was not disappointed. Keun was a first hand witness to the Nazi regime and her choice to use Sana, a sharply observant but naive young girl as the narrator of her novel, ratchets up the horror. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/0-7-1.jpeg0-7This copy of Thousand Autumns has been on my shelves, unread, for over a decade. Time to see what's it's like, n'est ce-pas? 2023-07-20T12:59:29+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/03/21/short-reads-for-a-short-road-trip/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0-2-2.jpeg0-2https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/unnamed-8.jpgunnamed-8No visit to D.C., at least none by me, is complete without a visit to its National Gallery of Art. Not a great photo (drat that truck!) but it still gives you an idea of the entrance to the West Building, the original part of the museum.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0-3.jpegThis particular issue was a cornucopia of treasures, including articles on Trollope's Barsetshire Novels, Flora Thompson's Lark Rise; Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop; & Mary Renault's Last of the Wine. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0-6.jpeg0-6Two works that I've recently read by Claire Keegan, a new personal favorite. I've just added Walk the Blue Fields, one of her short story collections, to my Mount TBR.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0-2-1.jpeg0-22023-07-20T13:38:51+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/02/15/jessica-aus-cold-enough-for-snow-a-journey-through-mists-and-memory/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/0-1-3.jpeg0-1Has anyone read Jessica Au's recent novel, Cold Enough For Snow? If so, I'd be most interested in hearing your reaction.2023-07-20T13:34:01+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/02/06/finishing-off-scandinavia-murder-with-maud/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/0-2.jpegPercy wants to know whether we can next go to someplace warm . . 2023-07-20T01:59:37+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/02/03/oddny-eirs-land-of-love-and-ruins-personal-national-transitions/2023-07-19T12:51:55+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/01/27/2022s-back-to-the-classics-challenge-will-the-fourth-time-be-the-charm/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-5-1.jpeg0-5xxxxxhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-7.jpegHow to choose, how to choose, when you want to read them both? I may end up doing so, if time allows; if pressed I'll probably go with Father, as I've been very impressed by the blog posts I've read of this British LIbrary series. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-6.jpegI'm back to Persephone again for the short stories! I've read a few volumes of Diana Athill's memoirs (loved Stet.) and have long been curios about her fiction. Her Midsummer Night In the Workhouse is a perfect opportunity for me to discover what I think!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-4-4.jpeg0-4Since this is one of my favorite Persephone end papers, I couldn't resist throwing it in my post, along with another view of the bookmark!2023-07-19T13:11:04+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/01/25/antti-tuomainens-dark-as-my-heart-helsinki-noir/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-5.jpegFor a tale as dark as this Finnish mystery, I thought my gargoyle was a suitable accountrement, ne-c'est pas?2023-07-18T13:48:11+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/01/17/dag-solstads-novel-11-book-18-everymans-quest-for-meaning/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-17-1.jpeg0-17Novel 11 is one of those skinny works that pack a disproportionate wallop. Skillfully translated by Sverre Lyngstad, my copy came from New Directions Press, which has also published the other three novels in Solstad's "quartet." 2023-07-18T13:31:27+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/01/10/a-life-in-three-acts-tove-ditlevsens-copenhagen-trilogy/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/btcc2022red.pngBTCC2022RedDespite my abysmal completion rate, the Back to the Classics Challenge is one of my favorite bookish events. Undeterred by experience, I'm trying https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nordic-finds-banner.jpgNordic-Finds-Banner2023-07-18T13:08:33+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/01/06/european-reading-challenge-2022/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-12.jpeg0-12I've tried, unsuccessfully, to read the great Hungarian writer Miklos Banffy's Transylvanian Trilogy. I was delighted to discover the Enchanted Night, a collection of Banffy's short stories; hopefully this may offer an easier transition to his work. Catch The Rabbit, a debut novel focused on the complicated friendship between two childhood friends, looks very interesting.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-11.jpeg0-11Several new writers here for me! A French mystery (Invisible Ink) dealing with the illusion of memory by Patrick Modiano; a family drama by the Italian writer Domenico Starnone (Trick); a love triangle set in 1930s Belgium (La Femme de Gilles) and, finally, another family drama (Winterlings) set in the rural Spain of the 1950s. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-8-2.jpeg0-8Higher Ground & Broken Glass Park are both in Germany, so I'll have to choose one. I'm attracted to Thomas Bernard's Extinction, a tale of an Austrian aristocrat who rejects his heritage but . . . I may need a backup! On A Day Like This, by the Swiss German writer Peter Stamm, almost made my list last year . . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/erc-2022.jpgERC 2022After a year as a "shadow" participant, this year I'm going for the real thing!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0-3-1.jpeg0-3The very satisfying results of my Shadow participation in last year's European Reading Challenge. Each of these authors was new to me and each novel offered something enjoyably different from the others. What more could a bookish blogger reasonably ask?2023-07-15T16:15:24+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2022/01/03/good-bye-2021/2023-07-14T16:02:59+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/12/28/buckle-your-seat-belts-for-herve-le-telliers-the-anomaly/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/0-15.jpeg0-15https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/0-11.jpeg0-11https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/plane-lightning-aircraft-airplane-sky-flight-storm-aviation-clouds.jpgplane-lightning-aircraft-airplane-sky-flight-storm-aviation-cloudsI absolutely couldn't resist throwing this into my post! Thankfully, it's a stock image (unfortunately without enough info to give credit) rather than a personal photo . . . .2023-07-14T15:45:14+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/12/13/drifting-through-a-dreamscape-fleur-jaeggys-the-water-statues/2023-07-14T14:30:28+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/10/31/there-and-back-again-with-books-and-art-along-the-way/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-11-1.jpeg0-11My, Poo-Bear's certainly been busy while I've been away . . . .https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-12.jpegMy own tastefully lit little palm tree- home at last!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-11.jpegThis spot in Montgomerey County Maryland is always lovely, but I've never seen it looking so gorgeous. One of Mr. J's very best nature shots IMO! https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-1-2.jpeg0-1One of my personal favorites in a museum filled with great art, Franz Marc's Deer in the Forest I. It was painted in 1913, when Marc was at the height of his powers. Killed at Verdun in 1916, Marc was later denounced by the Nazi regime as one of the so-called "degenerate" artists.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-2-3.jpeg0-2https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-8-1.jpeg0-8I prefer this 1929 masterpiece by Georges Braque, considered by Duncan Phillips himself as one of Braque's "greatest and most exciting" works.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-7-1.jpeg0-7Part of the original brownstone, the music room is still used for chamber music concerts (it was the site of Glenn Gould's North American debut). If you look hard, you can just see Renoir's luncheon far on the left side of the room. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-4-3.jpeg0-4Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating, the favorite painting of all who visit. I'm not much of a Renoir fan, but even grumpy old me agrees it's quite the masterpiece. It's new, temporary space somewhat dampens its impact but even so it's not to be missed!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-8.jpeg0-8Mr.Janakay, on the other hand, favors the rationality and drama of Rembrandt's The Mill!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0-6-1.jpeg0-6I love this fantastical demon-haunted landscape, painted by a follower of Hieronymous Bosch.2021-12-14T17:46:02+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/08/01/six-in-six-my-2021-reading-so-far/2023-07-11T01:55:32+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/05/31/rescued-from-the-back-shelf-sigrid-nunezs-the-last-of-her-kind/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/9781429944977.jpg9781429944977I've had a copy of this book for over a decade without once reading a single word. About time for a rescue mission, wouldn't you say?2023-07-11T01:22:46+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/05/17/daphne-du-mauriers-the-parasites-ddm-reading-week-late-entry/2023-07-09T21:23:52+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/05/12/midweek-miscellany-on-the-road-again-books-museums-springtime/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-8.jpeg0-8A much nicer image than those snakes, n'est-ce pas? In a few weeks, these will be in full bloom.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-4.jpeg0-4where there's a swamp, well, there are swamp critters! Luckily these were off the path.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-5.jpeg0-5One of my very favorite spots, only 25 miles (40 km) or so from downtown Washington. This area is close to the Potomac River and can be a little swampy at times . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-3.jpeg0-3Can you find the chipmunk? He's on the left of the flat concrete slab. This one needs to exercise more caution, or he's liable to be something's lunch!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-1.jpeg0-1This is actually a very small urban park. Since it's a green space located in a dense residential area, it makes a great "migrant trap" during the spring, when migrating birds use it to rest and refuel. In pre-pandemic Aprils it was quite common to see folks wearing business suits & binoculars (I once saw a semi-famous retired cabinet secretary) using their lunch hour to spot interesting migrants coming down to the stream.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-14.jpeg0-14An example of a Barnes "wall ensemble", which combines paintings of different styles & time period with objects such as furniture, jewelry, iron work and sculpture. The observant among you will note the absence of any helpful wall text; Dr. Barnes believed viewers should form their own opinions about the art in his collection!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-9.jpeg0-9The visitor approach, lined with gorgeous Japanese Maples (I think! My knowlege of plants is limited) In addition to the fabuous art, the building itself is lovely.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-13.jpeg0-13https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-20.jpeg0-20Inside of the museum, looking out; this gives you a sense of sccale.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/0-10.jpeg0-10Another exterior view. In front of the building is a shallow, pebble lined pond, which is a great favorite with the local birds.2021-06-24T14:05:25+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/05/01/reading-brian-moores-the-lonely-passion-of-judith-hearne/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-1-5.jpeg0-1Editor Athill's account of her relationship with Brian Moore was a wonderful sidenote to reading Judith Hearne . . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-3.jpegI purchased my copy of Judith Hearne in the summer of 2010. I finally got around to reading it last week, prompted by Cathy's Brian Moore readalong. 2023-07-10T01:07:56+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/04/26/monday-miscellany-moving-books-nature/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-7.jpeg0-7A view from the boardwalk, across the salt marsh. Unfortunately, the guy in the tree is too far away to make out, but I always see ospreys, herons and egrets when doing the circuit and, if I'm lucky, the occasional kingfisher. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-10.jpeg0-10If you look closely, you can see the large great blue heron standing in the water.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-6-e1619438290423.jpeg0-6The nature preserve's boardwalk, as viewed from the observation tower, the only high spot around! The basic circuit is around three miles (close to 5km) and there's always something to see . . .https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-1-4.jpeghttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0.jpeghttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-23.jpeg0-23I've been following Simon's reviews of the titles in the British Library's series devoted to Women Writers. They all look good, but I'm particularly eager to try Rose Macauly's Dangerous Ages. I first "met" the South African writer Damon Galgut in 2010, when I read his haunting and beautiful novel, In A Strange Room (short listed for the Booker Prize). I'm looking forward to reading The Promise, a family saga/fable set in South Africa. I've been intending to sample Paula Fox's work for ages now. Perhaps 2021 will be the year I finally read her best known work!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-20-1.jpeg0-20Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet was my first encounter with a surrealist literary work. Although I was mildly apprehensive at first, I soon settled in for a wild adventure with a nonagenerian like no other, a cross-dressing abbess, the goddess Venus and the Holy Grail. As subversive as it's wildly funny, I hope to review it in the next few months.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-22-1.jpeg0-22https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-15-1.jpeg0-15https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0-2-2.jpeg0-2Despite some ambivalence about Elizabeth Bowen (there are times when she's just a bit too refined for my taste), I've been slowly but steadily working my way through her novels. Eva Trout, Bowen's final novel published in 1970, is one of my favorites. Very, very funny in some spots, tragic in others and with some very heavy things to say about communication, or lack thereof, among its characters. 2025-02-09T12:30:45+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/01/31/the-2021-european-reading-challenge-how-far-will-my-journey-go/2021-03-11T12:11:11+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/01/31/once-again-i-attempt-the-classics/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/0-1-2.jpeg0-1My newly acquired Jean Stafford collection. I'm about halfway through The Catherine Wheel and am thoroughly bemused as to why this wonderful writer isn't more widely read.2021-03-22T03:19:26+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2021/01/04/2020-reading-roundup/2021-02-21T04:05:47+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/12/17/midweek-miscellany-margaret-atwood-that-is-and-me/2021-02-21T04:03:40+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/11/06/happiness-is/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/0-15.jpeg0-15https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/0-8-2.jpeg0-8Miles and https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/0-9-1.jpeg0-9https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/0-5-1.jpeg0-5A major reason for all this trouble: new shelves! Miles and miles of new shelves! And what do new shelves need, dear book bloggers? If you miss this answer you should take up another hobby!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/0-6-2.jpeg0-62023-07-09T15:28:38+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/11/01/halloween-greetings-and-some-spooky-books-for-scary-times/2023-07-09T15:27:41+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/08/10/spanish-lit-month-andres-neumans-talking-to-ourselves/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_2583.jpgIMG_25832020-10-21T13:04:45+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/07/03/sylvia-townsend-warners-the-corner-that-held-them-or-how-i-became-an-stw-addict/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/0.jpeghttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/0-2.jpeg0-22026-01-15T16:29:03+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/06/20/its-juneteenth/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0-1.jpeghttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/rumor-of-war-750x430-1.jpegRumor-of-War-750x430-1https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tse-2-credit-ka-man-tse-for-times-square-arts-768x512402x.jpgTse-2-Credit-Ka-Man-Tse-for-Times-Square-Arts-768x512@2xhttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/wiley-kw-pa-17-037_barack-obama.jpgWiley-KW-PA-17-037_Barack-Obamahttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/200617173631-02-juneteenth-flag-super-169.jpg200617173631-02-juneteenth-flag-super-169The Juneteenth flag, commemorating the day that slavery ended in the U.S., flies in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, June 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)2020-07-07T01:23:13+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2020/05/07/midweek-miscellany-reading-roundup/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/job_lot_cheap_william_michael_harnett_1878.jpeg.jpegJob_Lot_Cheap_William_Michael_Harnett_1878.jpeghttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0-4.jpeg0-4https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0-20.jpeg0-20https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0-18.jpeg0-18https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/peto_old-books-on-a-shelf.jpgPeto_Old-Books-On-A-ShelfJohn Frederick Peto, "Old Books On A Shelf" 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first became aware of this great Hungarian novelist a few years ago, when I read 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kidding -- I'm sure the winner of the Man Booker prize receives something far less glittery!2019-07-28T12:17:19+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/07/22/monday-miscellany-one-barrier-island-eight-books-and-exciting-news-for-austen-lovers/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0-6-1.jpeg0-6https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/51mdscepsl._sx315_bo1204203200_.jpg51mDsC+ePSL._SX315_BO1,204,203,200_One of my TBR Challenge books, which I FINALLY finished! An absolutely stunning read by Esther Freud, a British novelist I like very much. I honestly can't understand why it took me EIGHT years to get around to this book.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0-4-2.jpeg0-4A roosting tree, loaded with American Ibises waking up for the day . . . . . https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0-1-3.jpeg0-1Anna Maria's Rod & Reel Pier, a community gathering spot. Do you see the line waiting to get into the yellow building, which is a restaurant? If you look closely, you can see everyone is facing in the same direction because they're watching a couple of dolphins hunt fish. EVERYONE goes to dinner at the Rod & Reel Pier!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0-3-2.jpeg0-3These large pink birds are Roseate Spoonbills, which are generally not seen in large numbers. Finding this llittle flock on an early morning walk at a nearby nature preserve was quite a treat; catching the relections made the view even better. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/51optjxvanl._sx307_bo1204203200_.jpg51oPtjXvANL._SX307_BO1,204,203,200_Bánffy's "They Were Counted" was my "very long classic" Challenge read. One chapter in and I know I'm in trouble -- I need Plan B! I will not be reading this book in 2019! https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/61gtqkglhl.jpg61GTQkGLH+LSome times (and traveling is one) NO ONE but Georgette Heyer will do! This one isn't my favorite of her regency romances (that honor probably goes to "These Old Shades") but it's still wonderful!https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/71uvfclql._ac_ul436_.jpg71u+V+fclqL._AC_UL436_Although I love science fiction and fantasy novels, I'm not reading many these days. This tale of operatives Red and Blue, locked in a centuries old struggle through time, is a wild mix of genres rendered in beautifully poetic language.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/41byh6dl7l._sx321_bo1204203200_.jpg41B+yH6Dl7L._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_One of my Back to Classics selections (category: novel from a place where you've lived) and my first novel by Walker Percy. I'm still mulling over my rather complicated reaction . . . .https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/41qhmu7umdl._sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg41qhMU7UMdL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_Harrison's beautifully written but intensely troubling memoir; a non-fictional treament of a relationship similar to that depicted in Peile's novel.2019-07-24T00:56:48+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/07/18/midweek-miscellany-nature-along-floridas-gulf-coast-with-pics-videy/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/panther_remote_camera.jpgpanther_remote_cameraNeedless to say, this is NOT my photo! Despite being quite willing to trade several years of my life for the experience, I've never seen on of these beautiful animals.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/10475-gulf-shore-dr-unit-151-large-024-7-10475-gulf-shore-blvd-151-5-1500x843-72dpi.jpg10475-Gulf-Shore-Dr-Unit-151-large-024-7-10475-Gulf-Shore-Blvd-151-5-1500x843-72dpiNaples, Floridahttps://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0-1-1.jpeg0-12025-01-14T02:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/07/02/summer-reading-the-beauty-of-lists/2020-12-29T01:00:19+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/07/01/miscellaneous-monday-summer-weekends/2019-07-02T11:17:35+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/06/11/monday-miscellany-nature-along-the-delaware-coast-in-may/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/unknown.jpegUnknownPurple Martins (a large North American swallow) and https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/4035246616_cdbff6b3a5_b.jpg4035246616_cdbff6b3a5_bThis gives you some idea of what the beaches are like when the horseshoe crabs show up to lay eggs. The shorebirds, needless to say, are delighted.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/unknown-1.jpegUnknown-1A single horseshoe crab. You NEVER see one -- when the tide is right during their breeding season, these things come shore by the thousands to lay their eggs.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_1270-1200x800.jpgIMG_1270-1200x800A group of Red Knots, a type of sandpiper. They're extremely dependent on horseshoe crab eggs to survive their incredibly long migration from southern South America to the Arctic. Because humans are overharvesting the crabs the Red Knot population is in sharp decline.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/delbay.gifDelaware Bay, with the prime horseshoe crab areas marked in orange.2019-06-18T23:35:54+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/05/26/delicious-decadence-in-belle-epoch-paris-guy-du-maupassants-like-death/2019-07-03T19:28:59+00:00monthlyhttps://youmightaswellread.com/2019/05/20/monday-miscellany-nature-on-the-move/https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_1218.jpegIMG_1218And what's an outing of any kind without an end of the day stop at an Irish pub? McCarthy's is conveniently located across from a popular wharf. https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_1219.jpegIMG_1219Port Clinton was founded in the 1840s and grew slowly; this is one of its relatively rare older buildings.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_1222.jpgIMG_1222A glimpse of one of Port Clinton's docks. The summer sports fisherman aren't here yet.https://youmightaswellread.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_1203-3.jpegIMG_1203 3Magee Marsh, a prime stopover for migrating birds, located on the southern shore of Lake Erie. 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