What are your reading now?: April 11, 2026

Starting the new thread kind of slipped my mind there.

Wrapping up Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945, Volume III: Naval Auxiliaries. Just started Slow Gods. The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France will follow.

I'm about a quarter of the way through Spycatcher: the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright, an interesting and well-written memoir about life in MI5, the British counterintelligence service, during the Cold War. Not a particularly pretty picture, I'm afraid.

I'm about halfway through 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Very well written and interesting.

I'm reading my Early Reviewer, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery. I'm on my third tree. Good balance of science, history, and anecdotes.

The Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen
I've read all of her novels except for this one.
Mariah Aubrey is exiled, accompanied by her former governess, to a gatehouse on her aunt's estate. She takes up novel writing as a way to support herself. After her aunt dies, Mariah discovers a family secret in her aunt's trunk.

Nine Goblins
T. Kingfisher
4/5 stars
Cute science fiction book about a group of goblins and their antics. Science Fiction

Finished reading Amanda by Kay Hooper and still reading London by Edward Rutherfurd

The new thread is up over here.