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**In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan** started&finished
Strange novel. Set in a post-apocalyptic quasi-utopian hippie commune, writing with psychedelic elements … and not much happens, some characters are assholes, and it ends with a bizarre su!c!de(s). Weird.
**The Celtic Twilight, by W. B. Yeats** started, might not finish
I was hoping to learn more about Irish legends based on an accompanying blurb, but it’s rather a collection of short supernatural stories, a ghost in this family and fae appearing in that village …
**Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2, by Nina Špitálníková** finished
Another set of interviews with escapees from North Korea, focused on everyday life and mundane things such as menstruation (or lack thereof). I strongly prefer it to heavily editorialized western writing such as *Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick*.
**The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn** continued
I’m slowly going through a stash of various influential works on philosophy and history of science.
Finished: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Started: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Hainish Cycle by Ursula Le Guin
Still reading
**War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy**
Finally made it to volume 2 and I’m picking up my reading pace a bit now I’m more free. Terrifying to think I’ve been reading this 3 weeks and am only a quarter of the way through, though.
Against the loveless world, by susan abulhawa
Finished
**How to Sleep at Night, by Elizabeth Harris**
Started
**The City We Became, by N. K. Jemisin**
Finished: **Most Secret** – (Shute) Excellent WW2 yarn about some misfit soldiers who outfit a French fishing boat with a flamethrower and head over to the French coast to roast nazi boats. A really compelling story with great characters and sense of adventure.
Started: **Tai-Pan** (Clavell) – Read *Shogun* last year so thought it was time to do the next Asian Saga book. This one moves the story to China, jumps 240 years to 1841, and tells a story of how the British established the colony of Hong Kong. About 25% in. Loving it.
Farbenblind, von Trevor Noah
Every Summer After, von Carley Fortune
Finished:
**So Happy Together, by Olivia Worley**
**The Death of Shame, by Ambrose Parry**
**A Curse of Fate, by Jaymin Eve**
**A Twist of Luck by Jaymin Eve**
**Bad Nature by Ariel Courage**
Camino Ghosts by John Grisham
Picked it up at the airport to read on the plane and finished as we touched down on the runway coming home.
Absolutely adored one of the main characters, Lovely.
I didn’t realize this was the third book in a series until after I bought it, but had no trouble understanding. I will probably go back and read the first two at some point.
Finished:
**We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson**
Started:
**Witchcraft For Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix**
**Finished**
Storm in a Teacup:The Physics of Everyday Life, by Helen Czerski
A non-fiction about physics with lots of real, practical explanations. I found it a bit too simplistic for myself, but I would recommend it to a teen interested in physics, or an adult who’s interested in physics but not really used it since they were in school.
**Started**
The Odyssey, by Homer
Currently only 30 pages into the ~60 page introduction
**Continuing**
The Catcher in the Rye, by J D Salinger
Finished North Woods by Daniel Mason
Started Stiff by Mary Roach
I finished Gentlemen Jack and Rough Rufus the rise of Black American wrestling by Ian Douglas and it was a wonderful read. I started Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay and I’m really enjoying it. He’s one of my new favorite writers
Started: The prison doctor by Dr.Amanda Brown
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Finished: **Wish You Were Here** by Jodi Picoult
Started: **TMNT: The Last Ronin** by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
Finished: **Vanishing World** by Sayaka Murata
Started: **Eat the Ones You Love** by Sarah Maria Griffin
Last Summer, Ethan Hunter.
Just started it. So far so good.
Finished: **Immaculate Conception** by Ling Ling Huang; **New Moon** by Stephanie Meyer
Continuing: **I’m Glad My Mom Died** by Jennette McCurdy
Started: **We Lived On the Horizon** by Erika Swyler