I’ve read a few books in the last week or two and haven’t been able to get them blogged. I’ve been in the hospital for the past week and very ill at home the week before that. I was reading but not writing much. I’m much better now –
1 Worst Case Scenario
by T.J. Newman 2024
I thought this looked interesting for quite a while – similar to The Martian or Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir but not quite. Not as good, that’s for sure. In the today’s world the pilot of a large jet has a heart attack while at high altitude. The aircraft crashes into a nuclear power plant but doesn’t quite create a nuclear disaster. Oh shades of Chernobyl, or Fukushima – yes. This is not a climate book but rather a disaster book – Rating – B- / thriller
2 Murder on Waverly Place
by Victoria Thompson, 2012
#12 in series
This series keeps getting better. The relationship between Sarah and Frank stays low key while here there is a good who-done-it involving a seance scam. True to the era and very satisfying. Rating – A / historical mystery
3 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
by Ai Waiwai 2021
Ai Waiwai is an extremely famous Chinese artist and activist born in 1959, 10 years after the Chinese Revolution, to Ai Qing, his activist father who later spent much of his time in exile. Ai Qing and Ai Weiwei both supported democracy and freedom in addition to human rights. His art is world famous. He was able to leave China (rather than stay in exile) and travel for the study of art in the US and Europe, becoming widely considered to be the world’s most popular Chinese artist. He lived through a lot of history which was one of his passions and this is an excellent memoir combing what he was seeing in his own life to what was happening in China and the world. This is a very sensitive man – concerned with history and the essence of humanity. I might be reading Mao’s Great Famine next. This occurred between 1958 and 1963, directly after Weiwei was born so it’s definitely relevant to him and his father.
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I’m sorry to hear you’ve been unwell, and relieved that you are recuperating ok. Look after yourself and don’t worry about the blog. Your loyal readers will wait for as long as it takes.
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Oh thank you, Lisa. I have excellent doctors and a small excellent hospital to keep watch because this is probably recurrent stuff. But I’ve changed a few things so I don’t have so much to do and I’ll keep myself exercised per Doc’s orders (it’s a COPD and UTI combo). But I’ll also keep reading – lol!!
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It’s good to hear you have excellent care, LOL you just tell them that you have a reader in Australia who is expecting them to look after you as their No 1 priority!
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