Currently reading
Roman Blood
Progress:
171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Progress:
208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
Smilla et l'amour de la neige
Lovely with a dash of wow. Part mystery, part spy-thriller, all inner journey in the head of Smilla Jaspersen, herself part Inuit, part Danish, never belonging anywhere, only within herself. I loved the whole science, the science of ice being her tie to the world. How she doesn't connect to anyone but this child who calls to the child she was. This child who's taken away from her killed liked she as a child was taken away from her home and spiritually killed. The part on the high sea, on the Kronos is very well done and made me claustrophobic and even if the voyage took only a week, it's like going into a time dilatation hole. Glad I read it, finally. Easily one of the good books I've read this year.
