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Finished:
Exit strategy – Martha Wells – The Murderbot diaries
Started:
Network Effect – Martha Wells – The Murderbot diaries
I’m really enjoying the series and will watch the TV series soon as the trailer looked great!
Started: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix
Finished: Diary of a Void – Emi Yogi
Started: King Sorrow – Joe Hill
Finished:
**The Madwoman of Serrano, by Dina Salustio**
**Where the Guava Tree Stands, by Leah T. Williams**
**All This Could Be Different, by Sarah Thankam Mathews**
The first two are for my challenge to read a book by a woman from every country in the world, Cabo Verde and St Kitts & Nevis respectively. I really enjoyed The Madwoman of Serrano; it’s a magical realism novel from the late ’90s, translated from Portuguese, and definitely gave me Gabriel García Márquez vibes.
I didn’t really gel with Where the Guava Tree Stands, which is a novel in verse about immigration. Every single chapter felt the same; the author used the same rhyming couplets repeatedly, as though she couldn’t think of any other words that rhymed. It just felt amateur and ineffective, unfortunately.
All This Could be Different was a TBR gem – it’s been sitting on my shelf unread since I bought it in hardback in 2022. I’ve read the first page dozens of times and decided that it felt like a bit of a commitment. Turns out that it was a very worthy one! I ploughed through all 300+ pages in one sitting.
Started:
**All Fours, by Miranda July**
I’m only on page 15, so I’ll reserve judgement until later, but I’m really enjoying the narrative voice so far. Fingers crossed!
Dead Wake, Erik Larson: Finished
Isaacs Storm, Erik Larson: Started
I felt like rereading his early work after I disliked his newest one, Demon of Unrest.
I guess this post is re-scheduled to 11AM on Wednesday for the time being. Noted
Finished: **Tom Clancy Weapons Grade, by Don Bentley**
11th in the series. Jack Ryan Jr. is on vacation in Texas with his fiancee Lisanne Robertson. Jack is attending a football game and Lisanne is visiting a friend she knows from school. On his return from the game to meet a tipsy and amorous Lisanne at the hotel, Jack comes across a car forced off the road. He stops to see if he can help and finds himself caught up in a gunfight with several professional killers. The bad guys flee when the highway patrol shows up and Jack has to explain his way out of a jail cell. The driver Jack tried to help dies in the fracas, but before he dies, he slips a piece of paper into Jack’s pocket revealing a meet scheduled that day in a nearby town. Jack can’t resist showing up at the meeting. I enjoyed this one. Jack Jr. true to form, finds trouble even on vacation away from the Campus.
Finished: **Shadowed, by Karen E. Olson**
Second in the Black Hat series. Under the alias Susan McQueen the hacker formerly known as Nicole Jones is hiding out on a remote island in Quebec. She thinks she has slipped her pursuers but when selling her paintings at a leased stall in touristy Quebec City with her friend and neighbor she is put off by the unfriendly and suspicious man selling landscapes in the next stall. On top of this she has malware on her laptop that is extorting her for a bitcoin ransom. She visits a computer shop in the city to buy another clean laptop and the store owner calls in a woman to look at the malware who turns out to be working with the RCMP part time. Susan/Nicole feels the trap tightening around her again and decides to cut her losses and pull up stakes and run. This is a very suspenseful fast paced series. I will have to read the next installment.
Started: **What We Buried; by Robert Rotenberg**
Finished: I Who Have Never Known Men (amazing book)
Started: The Haunting of Hill House; Speaks The Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Finished:
**Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley**
Started:
**When the Wolf Comes Home, by Nat Cassidy**