Currently reading: What Could Be Saved: A Novel by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz 📚
Finished reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚I don’t know what genre to put this in. Mystery? Fantasy? It’s elegantly crafted and in a way is about writing: what does it mean to be in a character’s head? I liked it.
Currently reading: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚I enjoyed it just as much as the first one in this series. A teenage “witch” growing up in Nigeria, fighting evil and developing self-awareness.
Currently reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚
Currently reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚
Currently reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
Finished reading: Slade House by David Mitchell 📚Loved it, even though it verges on horror. I had the experience that happens to the characters – losing myself in time while the story/orison was told, but luckily the author didn’t steal my soul, I think.
Finished reading: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor 📚a fun YA read with great characters
Finished reading: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin 📚I could not grasp the point of this novel. Lots and lots of exposition but why?
Currently reading: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚I did love it, to the point of slowing down in order to make it last longer. I was saddened by the end, which seemed hopeless as we are all consigned to a word of violence and inequality. Still thinking about it, though.
Currently reading: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 (The Best American Series ®) edited by Ed Jong 📚
Currently reading: Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff 📚I loved this book. Very different from her other novels. Semi-historical fiction about an abbess in the 12th century. Beautiful, lyrical, and tied to the present day in many subtle ways.
Quit reading: Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé 📚While I liked the characters, the writing and the setting (DC in 1977 when I was in high school there), there was far too much child abuse so I had to quit at about half-way through.
Currently reading: Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff 📚
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 📚