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**Finished:**
Flashlight, by Susan Choi
**Started and finished:**
Model Home, by Rivers Solomon
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, by Charlie Jane Anders
Chlorine, by Jade Song
Hazelthorn, by CG Drews
Finished
**A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form, by Paul Lockhart**
**Sanctum of the Soul, by Kel Kade**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**Touch, by Claire North**
Started
**The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence, by Terence Keel**
**The Map and the Territory, by Michel Houellebecq**
Slowly continued, currently 1/3 through. I feel conflicted about Houellebecq’s style; it’s certainly unusual.
**Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber**
One of my all-time favs. I’m rereading the chapter on colonization as a timely refresher.
Finished:
**The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky**
It had been a bunch of bigger, heavier books lately, so I needed a break. Switched it up by starting and finishing:
**For We Are Many, by Dennis E Taylor**
**All These Worlds, by Dennis E Taylor**
**Heaven’s River, by Dennis E Taylor**
**Not Till We Are Lost, by Dennis E Taylor**
**The Assassins of Thesalon, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
**Knot of Shadows, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
**Demon Daughter, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
**Penric and the Bandit, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
Started:
**The Laws of Witchcraft, by CJ Archer**
Continued:
**Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson**
Finished:
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands, by Heather Fawcett
Read book 1 and 2 in the same week, really sweet easy reads but I got bored by the end of 2. Taking a break before I move into book 3.
Started:
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
About a third of the way through, already a hard hitting book
Finished:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Started:
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finished :
Crime and punishment by Fyodor dostoevsky
Started:
Babel by RF Kuang
**Pandora’s Star, by Peter Hamilton**: 1 (Commonwealth Saga, 1) Only about 200 pages in so far and it’s a big one. Feeling very space operatic lately. Need the distraction I guess.
Finished **An Immense World, by Ed Yong.** Very high quality science writing about animal senses. Would make an excellent source book for anyone trying to write convincing aliens.
Finished:
**Yaga, by Kat Sandler**
**Artificial Wisdom, by Thomas R. Weaver**
Started:
**The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood**
Finished: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Started: Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
Finished: the Enemy, by Charlie Higson –
Started: The coordinates, by Marc Jacobs – really enjoying it so far, very much like the da vinci code.
On the weekend I finished the Light between oceans, by ML Stedman & Skylarking, by Kate Mildenhall and I’ve just started Wuthering Heights
I have finished:
The Stranger by Albert Camus. I loved it
Slam by Nick Hornby. Also loved it
About a boy by Nick Hornby. I liked it
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby. Meh
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I liked it
Currently reading:
Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty
Finished:
**Repatriation, by Ève Guerra**
**The Weasel and the Whore, by Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas**
**Star Shipped, by Cat Sebastian**
The first two were for my challenge to read a book by a woman from every country in the world – these two were for Republic of the Congo and Cuba. The last one is because I’ve had A Week and needed to read a romance which had absolutely no plot. I’d love to say that my favourite read of the week was one of the really cerebral ones, but… no.