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Finished:
**A Treacherous Curse, by Deanna Raybourn** (audiobook)
Continuing:
**Shogun, by James Clavell** (audiobook), about halfway done.
**1979, by Val McDermid** (e-book)
**The Life of Birds, by David Attenborough**
Attenborough’s writing is similarly eloquent to his narration.
**Hrdý Budžes, by Irena Dousková**
Satirical novel about 1970s normalization in Czechoslovakia, written as a schoolgirl’s diary. It’s very funny.
**A Mathematician’s Apology, by G.H. Hardy**
A curious essay on mathematics, with a CP Snow’s foreword which is very old-fashioned at times.
Finished
**Invisible Kitties: A Feline Study of Fluid Mechanics or The Spurious Incidents of the Cats in the Night-Time, by Yu Yoyo**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, by Jason Pargin**
**One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez**
Started
**Undeading Bells, by Drew Hayes**
Finished
**Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling**
Marathon complete, had a really great time diving back into the Wizarding World for the first time since childhood. My favourite as a kid was always Goblet of Fire but I think that may have changed to Half-Blood Prince now!
**Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke**
The atmosphere in this is really something else. I love the meticulousness of descriptions and how they adds to Piranesi’s character. Unfortunately the plot was pretty bare bones and predictable but it far from ruins what was a pretty great experience.
Started
**Medea, by Rosie Hewlett**
The word “started” is certainly doing some work here, I have about 30 pages left. At first this seemed like a simple female hero vs cartoonishly evil man and honestly I was rolling my eyes a little but the way it’s transformed into so much more than that with its dark narrative and nuanced characters, I’ve been gripped.
Finished reading **The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison**. Well written and devastating novel about little black girls in 1941 USA.
Started reading **I Am a Cat, by Sōseki Natsume**. It is a Japanese novel from the early twentieth century told from the perspective of a cat.
**Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe**
**Sula by Toni Morrison**
**We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson**
**Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolfe**
A Bargain so Bloody (started)
Started and finished:
The Book of Elsewhere, by China Mieville & Keanu Reeves
No Friend to this House, by Natalie Haynes
Lucy Undying, by Keirsten White