Finished reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚can’t say I liked it. Interesting ideas about time travel but ugly takes on race and gender, the maternal instinct, and who is worth saving.
Finished reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚a monster of a book but worth reading as it posits an alternative history that isn’t all about so-called great men and inevitable predatory capitalism.
Currently reading: Fixing Your Scrum by Ryan Ripley 📚
Finished reading: Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddie 📚so good!
Currently reading: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚
Currently reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚what a perfect novel. I loved everything about it, especially the way it’s an ode to libraries.
Finished reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚a good book for people with chronic illness and those who love them.
Quit reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚Reading about over-privileged white people behaving badly does not appeal to me. Child sexual abuse.
Currently reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚
Currently reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚
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. 📚