Finished reading: A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey 📚It’s set in Santa Cruz, CA, where I lived in the 1980s, but ultimately is just a romance novel. Though it is unintentionally thought-provoking about incarceration and the difference that white privilege makes.
Finished reading: The Last Palace by Norman Eisen 📚interesting book about Prague and Czech history from the POV of Obama’s ambassador who is also the son of a Czech refugee.
Currently reading: A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey 📚
Finished reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚it’s ok. The best character is the dog.
Currently reading: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici 📚
Currently reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚
Currently reading: The Years by Annie Ernaux 📚
Currently reading: The Last Palace by Norman Eisen 📚
Currently Reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚
Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚A silly novel. The best character is the small town on the Washington coast.
Still reading: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 📚I think I started reading this in January and have been diligently making progress every week but I’m still only a third of the way through! At this point, I’ll keep going just so I can say I finished it, hopefully, within the same year I started it.
Finished reading: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 📚So fun. An intentionally gothic tale, good characters.
Currently reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚
Finished reading: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 📚Couldn’t finish it, too brutal.
Currently reading: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 📚
Currently reading: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 📚
Currently reading: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 1) by Tamsyn Muir 📚
Finished reading: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚I loved it, especially the first part. By the third part, it was getting a bit heavy-handed but its intentions were admirable. Dystopian science fiction, with a strong dash of hope.
Finished reading: Outline by Rachel Cusk 📚Interesting writing with mostly unlikeable characters.
Currently reading: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚
Finished reading: Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal 📚 I loved this novel so much that I immediately began re-reading it to catch more of the nuance. Three young people go to painting school to learn trompe l’oeil. We all learn about observation.
Finished reading: The Story So Far by Jane Eklund 📚Erudite fiction about a relationship between a young woman and an older female author. Thought-provoking about the ways this might be the same as, or different from, an older man and a young woman.
Currently reading: Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal 📚
Currently reading: Outline by Rachel Cusk 📚
Finished reading: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 📚Such a fun fantasy novel! Great characters, both animal and human, living and dead. Highly recommended when you want something light and fun and satisfying.