An absolutely lovely evening spent sitting in the bath with a glass of white wine, a baseball game on the radio, and reading this article about wool production in early America. Delicious.
After I read the sheep article, I read another chapter of “Howards End” by EM Forster. It’s wonderfully clever. I always like to have some kind of fiction to balance out the non-fiction I am usually reading. Of course even my fiction choices have of late been the kind that take place one hundred or more years ago.
My book club is in search of another new book to read. Any ideas? No “beach books.” I am actually thinking of finding a non-fiction book club here in town. I know of one that exists, but it’s not as though I can crash it. I shall have to procure an invitation. Or maybe I will just start my own. Book club/History club. It’s an extracurricular activity.
The Grand Opening of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown was this day. I want to go!! I will, someday.
Fiction that fits your description: I love Waterland by Graham Swift, about the fenlands of East Anglia. Also Sacred Hunger by Brian Unsworth, about a slave ship.
Thanks! I will put those forth to the group. The other being considered is a biography of Catherine the Great.