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Finished: **The Body, by Stephen King**
Started (today): **The Giver, by Lois Lowry**
I don’t know what to expect but 11 chapters in, I’m becoming a bit.. nervous in a good way. I like it very much.
**Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, by Bill McKibben** started
The sad irony is that the book was published 15 years ago. I think it still provides an interesting framing of ‘anthropocene’.
**The Gene: An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee** continued
**The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn** continued
**Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, by Richard Rorty** started
Destroying Avalon by Kate McCaffrey
Lord of The Flies by William Golding
Finished: fellowship
Started: Two towers.
This is the 4th time I’ve read LOTR and it’s as good as ever
You Are Fatally Invited, by Ande Pliego
Finished: Wind and Truth and The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
Started: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Recently finished **Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb**. My favorite of her works so far, amazing characterization as always. Top notch, would recomment.
Currently reading **Murtagh (the new Eragon book) by Christopher Paolini**. I quite loved Eragon as a kid so I was happy to see there’s a new book out in the same universe. And I’m enjoying it, but it also feels pretty…young. I guess it makes sense, Eragon was always YA, but maybe picking it up right after Hobb was too much of a pace change.
Ah well, I’m finishing it.
Finished:
**The Guest Cottage, by Lori Foster**
**This is the Homeland, by Mary Hickman**
**Desire in His Blood, by Zoey Draven**
**The True Happiness Company, by Veena Dinavahi**
**Craving in His Blood, by Zoey Draven**
**Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons, by Quenby Olson**
**Hunger in His Blood, by Zoey Draven**
Finished
**Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski**
Started
**White Tears by Hari Kunzru**
Finished:
Cover Story, by Mhairi McFarlane
Just Last Night, by Mhairi McFarlane
Started: Meet Me at Midnight, by Max Monroe
Salem’s lot by Stephen King. On audible!
Everyone in my family killed someone. 10/10 would recommend
I finished The sea the sea by Iris Murdoch on an idea to read Booker prize winners. I enjoyed it a lot and found The Bell on my library app and I’m loving this too.
There’s a strange eerie vibe to these books that never has a supernatural explanation which I love.
I started Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively but after 100 pages or so (my self imposed limit, I don’t have enough time or care to continue books I’m not enjoying) I hated the main character so much – I know you’re supposed to – that I stopped. If anyone can recommend continuing I’d be open to it though.
**King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby** [started]
Finished: [Careless people](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223436601-careless-people?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15) by Sarah Wynn-Williams. It was interesting to get a behind the scenes view of Facebook’s gross tactics and Mark’s weird obsession with China. An easy read but I learned a lot.
Started: [Berlin](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37941619-berlin) by Jason Lutes. I haven’t read any graphic novels since my pre-teen days but this one stood out to me as a blend of historical fiction and a literary graphic novel. It’s looking at the years before WWII and how the Nazis managed to become so powerful. Usually a heavy topic but I am flying through the illustrations without feeling depressed. 10/10 so far.
Finished: The Wager by David Grann
Started: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
After making no progress on Dracula for so long (well, I’m still ahead of the dailies), I just wanted to buy and read something short for the sake of finishing it.
Started and finished: **White Nights by Fyodor Dotsoevsky**. I’d give it 7.5/10. I know it’s supposed to be a melancholic drama, but I did find it funny, if only for how relatable and repeat of a trope the story has persisted to be, even to this age. A man so inexperienced with love and relationships that the first woman who so much as makes conversation with him, he rattles off his whole life story, his physical ailments, his neuroses, his visions of grandeur and his melancholic lows.
I guess it was a surprise to see the girl he found was just as lonely and neurotic as him, due to her own circumstances, usually this tale in a “modern” sense uses the beautiful, popular, forever out of reach woman. Yet, wouldn’t you know it, she loves another, yet the main character loves her so much he even helps her in her love for that other man so that he may still be with her, even in some sad, twisted way.
As I say, it’s not a surprising plot, and I was laughing the whole way through to see how these tropes fit to an 1840s sentiment, but I suppose it’s timeless nature is what makes it a classic.
It came packaged with another short called Bobok that I’ll read next. Then it’s a toss up between Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky or A Dog’s Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov as to what I read next, apart from Dracula.
Finished – I was a teenage slasher which I enjoyed immensely especially after reading the Buffalo Hunter Hunter just a few weeks back.
Started – The Library at Mount Char and so far, 50 pages in, I’m intrigued and curious where this is going to go.
The poppy war, by R.F Kuang (Started)
So I have read this before but the ending put me off reading the sequels so I’m just rereading to see if I change my mind. And I did really enjoy this book!
Finished: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Just ok. Nowhere near as good as the Thursday Murder Club books.)
Starting: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Finished
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
( 10/10!)
Currently Reading
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson ( do not recommend)
Finished: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Started:
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Finished: The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
Still Reading: East of Eden by John Steinbeck