Last several booooks…

The Marriage Portrait. The author of Hamnet revisits history in a fictional way once again. This time by re-imagining the life as it might have been for a Renaissance Italian era duchess (and artist, at least in the book) forced to marry well, you know. Someone who kills her. This child was promised to her husband at 13. I have daughters and I cannot imagine me or the GG making marriage arrangements for them at that age. Or ever.

Snow Crash! I read Cryptomonicon by this author a few years ago. I loved it but I got lost in some of the details so maybe it’s a re-read. Snow Crash was crazy as all getout. I couldn’t always get straight what time period we were in. There were crazy futuristic things going on yet people were talking about their parents/grandparents fighting in WWII and Viet Nam, etc. This dissonance did not make me dislike the book but maybe I also need a re-read.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Video games anyone? I don’t actually play them. I mean NOT at all. Well except for the xword and spelling bee. Some people seemed to be annoyed at the characters in the book. I GOT THAT! But they weren’t all that bad and I know enough about coding/programming that I kind of got what was going on. Plus layering the art over the “engines” that drive video gaming. I don’t have words to articulate that but tech work in any format is both technical and artistic.

I am reading Horse now. Geraldine Brooks. I am loving this book as much as I loved March, her novel imagining the life of the father of the Little Women.

And I am off to watch my newest phone series, which is Game of Thrones!

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