Hello, Hungry Readers,

Sometimes writing these newsletters ahead of time feels a little odd. Like I hope where you are things have changed a little for the better. But also, the US government may or may not be shut down, DC may or may not but probably is still under federal occupation, and I will probably still be editing.

But books, books remain good.

Book shops links included.

Annie Mare’s Cosmic Love at the Multi-verse Hair Salon is the first timey wimey book, where the person having some time problems called all their very best nerd friends together to try to figure it out. And I would love it for that alone, but the texts from the future or the past between a hair stylist and a water engineer are really quite delightful as is the rest of their friend group and the ways that living in and out of time allow them to change their relationships with many around them.

(Also, if that makes you wish for more water engineer type romance, Alexis Hall’s Waiting for the Flood is like the slowest of burns (a very far off candle) and yet, happy sigh.)

I am a fan of Del Amitri and may have seen them live in concert more times than any other band. (Concerts used to be cheap my friends.) So I am exactly the target audience for lead singer Justin Currie’s Tremolo Diaries, where he details the band’s tour in 2022, where he is now diagnosed with Parkinson’s, looking at what has and has not changed about the world, about his life as a band member, about the band’s status. It is wildly poetic and darkly humorous, enough that I forgave an necessary swipe at the culture of DC. (Nothing a diary of a band on tour makes clearer than how little you can learn about a city you are in from mid-Tuesday to late Wednesday afternoon.) I am sure it helps to be a Del Amitri fan, but I think it would interest is music memoirs are your thing.

Hope you have been finding some good reads too!