Finished reading: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 📚I like the author’s writing style and interesting takes on redoing fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty. But I was disturbed that the villain here is what sounds like a severely autistic child.
Finished reading: The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland 📚Highly recommended. We’re all on the path to a disability. This book talks about how to approach using this knowledge, based on the author’s gradual ascent toward blindness. Lots of good information about the blind community, too.
Currently reading: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 📚
Finished reading: The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec 📚A fun read, mild magic fantasy set in pre-1000 AD Norway.
Currently reading: The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland 📚I’m only a little way into this and am already impressed by how good it is. The author is losing his vision and has many interesting things to say.
Finished reading: Learning Korean: Recipes for Home Cooking by Peter Serpico 📚Saying again how much I love this new cookbook on how to do Korean home cooking.
Currently reading: The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec 📚
Finished reading: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici 📚So thought-provoking. Not being a Marxist scholar myself, I had to catch up to even understand the concept of Primitive Accumulation, but overall this is an excellent and interesting read.
Finished reading: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman 📚I didn’t love it. There’s an odd plot involving sex with Nathaniel Hawthorne. There’s a bunch of heavy-handed opinion masquerading as dialogue. Overall, not as magical as other of her books.
Finished reading: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 📚interesting! Slightly feminist anti-fascist space opera with time slips.
Currently reading: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman 📚
Currently reading: Women Talking by Miriam Toews 📚
Currently reading: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 📚
Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚Such a sweet book! Becky Chambers is so good at writing these thought-provoking books that go down like a spoonful of honey. A nice tale of robot-human friendship, and what happens a hundred years after the robots gain sentience.
Finished reading: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin 📚Yeah, a good read. Science fiction, dystopian future, some good characters, and a satisfying twist at the end. Weirdly, about 14 epilogues but I’ll forgive that.
Currently reading: Learning Korean: Recipes for Home Cooking by Peter Serpico 📚Normally, I wouldn’t post a cookbook as something I’m currently reading but if you’ve ever wanted to learn how to cook good Korean home food, it’s great. Easy to follow, somewhat Americanized, and everything is delicious.
Finished reading: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 1) by Tamsyn Muir 📚I haven’t decided whether I’ll go on with this series. Probably too much gratuitous gore for me.
Currently reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚
Currently reading: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin 📚
Finished reading: A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey 📚It’s set in Santa Cruz, CA, where I lived in the 1980s, but ultimately is just a romance novel. Though it is unintentionally thought-provoking about incarceration and the difference that white privilege makes.
Finished reading: The Last Palace by Norman Eisen 📚interesting book about Prague and Czech history from the POV of Obama’s ambassador who is also the son of a Czech refugee.
Currently reading: A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey 📚
Finished reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚it’s ok. The best character is the dog.
Currently reading: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici 📚
Currently reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚