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Continuing:
**This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman**
**Started and finished:**
Feast While You Can, by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta
Bloom, by Delilah S. Dawson
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
**Started:**
Carrie, by Stephen King
**The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas**
**Talks with T. G. Masaryk, by Karel Čapek**
I’ve finished parts 1-2 that constitute Masaryk’s biography: childhood, academic career and organizing Czechoslovak legions and statehood during WWI. Curiously, events such as the Hilsner affair are mentioned only in passing, while much more focus is on divisions among contemporary nationalist movements. It’s also interesting how TGM stressed what literature he was reading at any given time and to what effect; e.g., he didn’t travel to France supposedly because he already knew it so well from novels.
Then there are parts 3 on philosophy, and 4 which is a collection of Čapek’s newspaper columns about TGM’s presidency and death.
**O Kaplan! My Kaplan!, by Leo Rosten**
Finished. While amusing, I found Kaplan grating by the end, and had to take breaks often. Still, I did get through its entirety; in part because it was my late best friend’s favorite book, but I never read all of it back then.
Finished:
**The Finest Hotel in Kabul, by Lyse Doucet**
**The Genius of Trees, by Harriet Rix**
Continued reading: **Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley**. Didn’t read as much as I hoped because my attention switched to comics again. Will again try and finish this week.
Started and Finished:
**Criminal, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips**, volumes 1-4. For a per-volume breakdown.
**Vol 1: Coward**. Brubaker and Philips together are the masters of graphic crime/noir, and this unfolded in such an intricate and spectacular way. The character of Leo Patterson is really interesting and a little unexpected for the usual crime/noir fable, but you get a full sense of him by the end of this story. 4.5/5.
**Vol 2: Lawless**. I think I preferred the characters and plot of the last one more, but this one was still really good. Both issue 1 and issue 3 had something of a circular structure to them, starting at the end of a plot and working around backwards to the start again. And not only that, but the whole comic does when you get to issue 5, and realise details you can read between the lines going back to issue #1. 4/5.
**Vol 3: The Dead and the Dying**, this one like both previous ones was very intricately plotted. Three character’s perspectives on the one, central event, and further backstory and lore to this wider narrative of families and crime. 4/5.
**Vol 4: Bad Night**, I’ve liked this one the least. For what was a very grounded series, this one was way too fantastical at multiple points (also kind of the point of it, given one character’s delusions). Like, it’s still intricately plotted, with a twist reveal, but it’s not as believable as the last few. 3.5/5
I love this series so much already though. But I only had these 4. Ordered the next 4-5 now, will have to wait a month for delivery though 😭
Finished
**The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller**
**Deep Silence, by Jonathan Maberry**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**The Angel of Indian Lake, by Stephen Graham Jones**
Started
**The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World, by Christine Rosen**
Finished:
**Sex and Rage, by Eve Babitz**
**War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy.** Andrei, I have questions
**All Things Wise and Wonderful, by James Herriot.** I have no idea what he might be like as a pilot, but he’s a very good vet
**The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of** ***Titanic*** **and the End of the Edwardian Era, by Gareth Russell.** I’ll be interested to see how well this book can support its base thesis.
**Scarpetta, by Patricia Cornwell.** Somewhere along the way these books shifted from first person to omniscient third, and the quality of the series dropped at exactly the same time
Finished:
Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck.
Água Viva, by Clarice Lispector
The Perks of being a wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Finished:
**The Hellbound Heart, by Clive Barker**
**The Wendigo & The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood** (short stories)
Continuing:
**Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley**
Finished:
* **The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy**, by Douglas Adams, narrated by Stephen Fry.
* I really enjoyed this book. It was fun.
* **Animorphs #11 The Forgotten**, by K.A. Applegate
* Animorphs re-read. Love em. I get frustrated with the main characters not communicating weird problems, like in this book, the narrator, Jake, experiences flashes in time where he appears in a jungle, and he doesn’t think to bring that up to his friends. But then I remember they are dumb kids, and even adults struggle with communication.
* **Tailored Realities**, by Brandon Sanderson
* Loved this one. Some short stories I think were better than others. I loved the Snapshot one, and Defending Elysium. I’m gonna read the Skyward Series now.
* **Alexander Hamilton**, by Ron Chernow
* This was a long read, but it was good. I enjoyed it. Some parts made me weirdly emotional lol. IDK why.
* **Animorphs #12 The Reaction**, by K.A. Applegate
* Animorphs. Love em.
* **Wreck**, by Catherine Newman
* Didn’t know it was a sequel, but it looked like a decent book from the cover at the library. I ended up really liking this one.
* **Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror**, by Chris Priestley
* This was pretty good. I really enjoyed the variety of different stories.
Started
* **The Andalite Chronicles**, by K.A. Applegate
* I have never read this one when I was a kid, so this is REALLY awesome to see a book from Elfangor’s POV.
Working
* **WARBREAKER**, by Brandon Sanderson
* With all of the above finished (except for my Animorphs Audio), I can finally stay focused on the Warbreaker. I really like this so far, though, I’m only 15% in.
Finished reading recently (just over the weekend):
* **The Fallen City book 1, by Adrienne Young**
* **The Crow, by James O’Barr**
* **Batman Earth One (1-3), by Geoff Johns**
* **The Last Ronin, by Kevin Eastman**
* **Batman: The Doom that Game to Gotham, by Mike Mignola**
* **Batman/The Flash: The Button by Joshua Williamson**
* **Batman: Shaman, by Dennis O’Neil**
* **Batman/Spawn: The Classic Collection, by Frank Miller**
* **Batman: Gotham After Midnight, by Steve Niles**
currently reading:
* **Batman: The Gates of Gotham, by Scott Snyder**
* **I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Jeanette McCurdy**
* **The Burning God (Poppy War #3), by R.F. Kuang**
Finished: **Checkout 19, by Claire-Louise Bennett**
Started: **Dr No, by Percival Everett**
Really enjoyed the start of this during a snowstorm yesterday…
Finished: Good People, by Patmeena Sabit
Started: The Seekers of Deer Creek, by Thao Thai
Finished:
Between Sun and Moon by Jaclyn Kot
Between the Moon and Her Night by Jaclyn Kot
Continuing:
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins