Finished reading: Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson 📚I have mixed feelings. I loved the language (a Caribbean influenced patois) and the world building. I hated the child abuse.
Currently reading: Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé 📚
Finished reading: Actress by Anne Enright 📚Possibly an unreliable narrator. I actually like when I’m not sure whether I can trust the story teller. An excellent book about some of the bad things that happened in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Finished reading: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida 📚I don’t have much to say. It was quite “preachy” but also had some interesting insights.
Finished Reading Saigon by Sam Hawken 📚I really enjoyed it. I don’t love suspense or violence and this story had manageable, interesting, levels of both. I cared about the characters. More importantly, I cared about Vietnam. A few typos but nothing that took away from the story.
Currently reading: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida 📚
Currently reading: Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson 📚
Currently reading: Actress by Anne Enright 📚
Finished reading: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter 📚Entertaining enough, but I won’t be seeking out work by this author.
Finished reading: The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles 📚I did not love it. While the setting, Paris during the German Occupation, was interesting, the book seemed more like a YA novel than a book for adults.
Finished reading: A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2 by Becky Chambers 📚I loved it. I mean, it’s not great literature, but it’s fun, has interesting characters, and is a thoughtful portrayal of a future with sympatico AI. What does it mean to be friends with an AI?
Currently reading: A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2 by Becky Chambers 📚
Finished reading: Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh 📚A hard read. Allie’s had a tough hand dealt to her and she doesn’t hold back here in describing a lot of pain. While I wouldn’t call it a funny book, she is so aware of life’s absurdities that there are funny moments.
Currently reading: The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles 📚
Finished reading: The Listeners by Leni Zumas 📚I did not enjoy this book though I read it all the way through so it wasn’t bad enough to drop. Awful, mentally ill, characters doing terrible things without much redemption. What’s the point of reading about so much bad behavior?
Finished reading: Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚 I’m definitely on a Marilynne Robinson kick, such shimmering writing! Here, she continues to meditate on the unhoused, what it’s like to be mentally ill, and bad decisions.
Finished reading: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson 📚An excellent book, especially for any of us who plan to grow old.
Finished Reading Incredible Doom vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden 📚Very fun trip back to the past of the dial-up 90s-era Internet. Some depictions of parental anger/abuse.
Currently reading: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson 📚
Currently reading: The Listeners by Leni Zumas 📚
Finished reading: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 📚I didn’t love it, but it is an interesting story of growing up as mixed race in post-apartheid South Africa. Includes harrowing stories of abuse.
Currently reading: Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 📚
Finished reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚 A good read. Dragged a bit in the middle but overall great characters and a good glimpse into a fictionalized version of life under the terrible institution of slavery.
Finished reading: Home by Marilynne Robinson 📚