Musings from the Roost

17. Jess Walter, So Far Gone (2025) (8/11/25) I have read a few of Jess Walter's ten books— Beautiful Ruins, The Financial Lives of Poet...

This week we took a little break from Monterey County and headed south to our neighbor county of San Luis Obispo—a 44th anniversary getaway....

(This post is out of order because I intended to write it several weeks ago but I got distracted.) The other week we went to the Carmel Bach...

16. John Kenney,  I See You've Called in Dead  (2025) (8/2/25) After the last book —which continues to stick with me, so perhaps I liked...

Another Friday, and another session with my English-learning friend . Today we worked on a dozen simple fill-in-the-blank exercises. Well, ...

Catching up here since my last IG post in May . I don't actually curate my Instagram feed. I just occasionally look at IG, then think, m...

15. Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch (2023) (7/29/25) That this book won the Pulitzer Prize surprises me—though maybe it just underscores th...