Status report

Spring has hopefully finally decided to stick-around, the birch leaves are out and my walk paths are getting lovelier each day. Overall things are fine around here, which makes me feel a little bit guilty and very very grateful. Apart from having to switch to online teaching things have changed surprisingly little. I have lived far from my family ever since I moved abroad and with everyone coming online I almost have closer contact with them than I am used to.

What has changed is the amount of reading I have done, 41 books in the first four months, way above my average. Most of it has been comfort reads though, a clear sign of troubled times. In the last few months I have focused on crime classics, Moomin novels, and Science fiction (mostly Martha Wells’ murderbot series). Adding only Fredman’s epistles to my Classics club reading challenge and staying mostly in Europe and North America.

Reading highlights

• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
• Moominland Midwinter, Finn Family Moomintroll and Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson (rereads)
• I was a stranger by John Hackett (reread)
• A woman in the polar night by Christiane Ritter