Oh, and here’s December. It’s lower in total books than some other ones because I was reading that long Marion Nestle book, but for me I don’t worry about length because I also sometimes review manga, children’s novels and even picture books so it balances out.
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I was like, damn, I have been reading this Kindle book for a while and I’m only at 22 percent, why am I not making more progress? Why so slow?
The book is A Discovery of Witches and apparently it’s 592 pages. That would explain the slow progress.
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And to think there are at least 2 more!
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This is such a big change with reading ebooks versus paper books - without the physical heft, you don’t have as good of an idea of what you’re getting yourself into.
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bounced off of book 4 of the Thursday Murder Club. The characters feel like they’ve become caricatures of themselves and
without Stephen it feels like the heart is gone
I tried to start Neal Stephenson’s Reamde. I might put it back on the shelf again.
How was We Solve Murders?
It was great! Probably my favourite from the month
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I don’t usually track reading but I did for Kiddo for January through a reading challenge the library is doing. We only read one of the Animorphs books and it was a graphic novel but that’s the image they had for it, and for some reason they have two pictures for Investigators but he definitely read more of the series.
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February reads! I am happy to report that while I am still 2 books off my pace, that gap did not grow at all in February.
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restarted Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi which is a historical examination of how the west has conceived of and presented concepts around extinction, starting with species and moving now to human cultures and groups. My brain had set the Beothuks so much earlier, and with much less colonial documentation.
next chapter, and I had never layered the reservations movement to the national parks movement, but of course once pointed out, it is so starkly obvious.
only a quarter of the way through. so much still to learn.
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As of today, I am only 2 books off my pace! Nothing like solo international flights to help one catch up.
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Still only 2 books off pace! I was even briefly caught up!
Here’s the full list:
I read 7 books in April and am holding steady at a mere 2 books behind schedule!
Audiobooks:
The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osmond (Thursday Murder Club #3)
Audiobook en espanol: Artemisa by Andy Weir
Readalouds that I finished with a kid:
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Clearly (kid age: 3)
The Martian by Andy Weir for the umpteenth time (kid age: 15)
“Regular” books:
Spellstruck by Martha Waters (e-galley)
The Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King (Mary Russel/Sherlock Holmes series)
And the graphic.
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Finished The Raven Scholar which seems very popular and also made it onto the Hugo list.
Primary protagonist has an endearing (to me) trait of having trouble not correcting people when they say something incorrect/inability to lie even when it would help her to keep quiet or equivocate. I felt very sympathetic.
Very long book, twisty turny, with the ‘group of people need to compete to get a leadership role’, where each person is aligned to a supernatural presence/force - our protag is connected to Raven, while her love interest is aligned to Fox, while the people currently in power are doing mysterious manipulation behind the scenes.
on the spectrum of Hunger Games and Gideon the Ninth, I might pick up book 2 and see if it pulls me in.
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I assume you’ve read one and two of the series? How are they holding up? I’ve only read (listened to) the first, and I liked it.
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