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. 📚
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.