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.
Currently reading: Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddie 📚
Currently reading: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 📚
Finished reading: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 📚Such a wonderful novel. As with most other David Mitchell’s I’ve read, I find myself slowing down my reading in order to prolong the experience.
Finished reading: The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk 📚a fun read. A bit too much 18th century fashion detail but a nice magical world and interesting characters.
Currently reading: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 📚A beautiful, hopeful book. If you have any interest in the local food movement and regenerative agriculture, this is a fabulous, accessible introduction.
Currently reading: The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk 📚
Finished reading: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell 📚I’m beginning to see how all of David Michell’s novels are one big novel, and luckily, I like it.
Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney 📚The clarity of her writing takes my breath away. I didn’t like the characters as people, but it was interesting reading about them.
Finished re-reading: The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran 📚
Currently reading: The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran 📚
Currently reading: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 📚
Currently reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney 📚
Finished reading: Convenience Store Woman: A Novel by Sayaka Murata 📚A strange book but I liked it. I was reading this at the same time as Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and there were strange parallels: humans who don’t feel human; along with taking place in Japan.