Summer Reading

Every Summer while we are staying at the cabin, we go in to the Evanston Library. It is wonderful. They always have a good Book Sale going on and I usually get a sack or two of books. This year I got a sackful to read at the cabin. I also went to Deseret Industries and got another sackful. And to top it off, I stopped in on Doc's Book Loft and got yet another sackful. This isn't counting all the great free classics I loaded up on the Kindle. So, I should be up to my ears in reading books. And I am loving it. I'm not loving all of the books, some are just ok, but some are really terrific.

Top Reads

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Other ones that were ok

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

by David A. Price

Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez

Sandra Dallas books (Whiter Than Snow, The Chili Queen, The Bride's House, Tallgrass)

[I LOVED Prayers for Sale and The Persian Pickle Club]

Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

While I was staying with L and babysitting Baby D, I re-read some of my favorites:

My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Currently reading:

Over The Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen

This book is about Magellan's circumnavigation of the Earth with the Armada de Molucca. I've read this book several times and it never fails. In my youth, I always thought Magellan had just one ship that went around the Earth, but they started out with five. There were several mutinees, and I'm to the point in reading where one ship has turned around in hopes of returning to Spain while another has been shipwrecked, leaving only three ships as they head out into the Pacific having found the Strait at the tip of South America. He has also just left two of the mutineers on a small island somewhere at the south end of South America after sentencing several others to horrendous deaths. I remember from my previous reading (and previous history classes) that only one ship makes it back with everyone about starved and Magellan is killed somewhere in the Indonesian islands. It is an incredible journey.

So far, I have traveled over 1000 miles this summer. Up north and back for the Little Red, north again for Baby D's birthday, to the cabin, and then home. To the Romero Family Reunion, north yet again to L's, to the cabin, a stop at Bear Lake at the Villa, again another north trip, to the cabin, and then home. We will be heading to the cabin for another visit soon, and then at the end of August we are going to Paris [not the city in Idaho].