Currently reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚
Quit reading: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton 📚At about the mid-point, I realized that I hated this book. It’s both pointless and didactic. Moreover, the story is told using 10,000 “and then this happened” transitions.
Finished reading: Great Circle: A novel by Maggie Shipstead 📚It’s an interesting story but I didn’t love it. Rape, child abuse, generational trauma.
Currently reading: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton 📚
Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚a sad story, I feel as though the author dashed this one off when he was really mad at that crazy, orange president.
Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚Hmm, I didn’t love it the way others here have. I think I’m tired of non-fiction books that consist of a lot of quotes and ideas from other people that the author strings together.
Currently reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
Currently reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚
Finished reading: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 📚And I’ve now finished all of the David Mitchell novels that I can find, Boom! What a fun way to spend the winter. He rewards you for reading everything. Utopia Avenue isn’t the best of them, but it was fine.
Currently reading: Great Circle: A novel by Maggie Shipstead 📚
Finished reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚A fun read and a nice break for some of the heavier books on my currently reading list.
Currently reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚It turned out that past me had done the right thing so I can read this library book after all.
Finished reading: Klara and the Sun: A novel by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚So lovely and disturbing. Shook me up not through violence but via quiet, perfect prose describing a future I do not want.
Arrgh! Library fail. I didn’t manage my Overdrive loans properly and just lost my spot for Becky Chambers Record of a Spaceborn Few. And I’ll lose two more if I don’t finish Klara and the Sun soon! The perils of being a cheapskate and not actually buying books I want to read. 📚
Finished reading: Number9Dream: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚While I love all the David Mitchell novels, this isn’t at the top of my list. On the other hand, he was only 33 years old when he wrote it.
Great characters, but some over-the-top violence that I found disturbing.
Currently reading: Klara and the Sun: A novel by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚
Finished reading: The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig 📚I hated this book. Seemed patronizing, minimizing the seriousness of suicidal ideation, with an overall “If you’re depressed, just get over it” feel to it.
Finished reading: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 📚Wow. I can’t easily say whether I liked it or not. But I’m definitely still thinking about it. It’s worth reading.
Finished reading: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 📚A nice, poignant, well-written novel about the Oxford English Dictionary and women’s lives circa 1900-1925.
Currently reading: The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig 📚
Currently reading: Number9Dream by David Mitchell 📚
Quit reading: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 📚
Currently reading: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 📚
Currently reading: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 📚though so far I don’t like it. Uninteresting characters and overall too scary for me. Should I keep reading?
Finished reading: The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden 📚I’ve enjoyed this series set in a medieval Russia fairy tale. Good characters, good magic.