What are you currently reading? The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. My husband adopted a dog, a two-year-old male German shepherd and shar pei mix. He named it Argos. I demonstrated loving support by deciding to read Homer for the first time since my sophomore year of college. This is an engaging translation, which is to say that one hardly notices that it’s poetry.
What did you recently finish reading? Two books so far in June: Wool by Hugh Howey and The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. In the former, people live in a huge underground silo; in the latter, the earth’s rotation begins to slow down. I liked Wool the better of the two reads, not least because it is partly a mystery, but also because, unlike The Age of Miracles, you find out why things are the way they are.
What do you think you will read next? We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, a just-released short story collection. Or perhaps Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, a young-adult spy novel set in WWII.
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