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Paused:
*Death on the Nile* by Agatha Christie. I don’t want to DNF it but I’m just not in the mood for this one. I’m at almost 30%.
Still working on:
*Scythe* by Neal Shusterman (audio). This is an interesting premise and I’m quite enjoying the audiobook.
I want to start something else, but I don’t know what I’m in the mood for.. might just do a re-read of Harry Potter, as I tend to do almost every winter 😅
Finished
**Human Acts by Han Kang**
Started
**Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut**
– Dune (Dune, #1), by Frank Herbert
– Mornings in Jenin, by Susan Abulhawa
– Candide, by Voltaire
– Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir, by Mark Lanegan
Started:
**If We Were Villains, by M. L. Rio**
**This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone**
**In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, by Doug Stanton**
Finished:
**Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer**
Ongoing:
**The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov**
**Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World’s Worst Aviation Disaster, by Jon Ziomek & Caroline Hopkins**
Working on:
**Sunless Solstice, by Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk** (eds.), a collection of Christmas ghost stories. My favorite is “The Blue Room” by Lettice Galbraith, but there are several other good ones:
– “The Ghost at the Crossroads” by Frederick Manley: if you meet a shadowy fellow out on the moors in the middle of the night who wants to play cards with you, basically DON’T.
– “Mr. Huffam” by Hugh Walpole: the title may already spoil it for some of you, but in this one >!the ghost of Charles Dickens essentially takes on the role of Christmas Present, and teaches a modern (read: cynical) London family the True Meaning of the Season!< etc etc.
– “The Apple Tree” by Daphne Du Maurier: like a story by Gilman or Jackson, this one skates along the boundary between being definitely supernatural, and ‘merely’ being an outgrowth of the protagonist’s own issues. It also leaves ambiguous the question of whether he learned anything by the end of it, but I’m leaning towards no.
**Smee and Other Stories, by A.M. Burrage**. This turned out to be a print-on-demand from Amazon, and I spent a few minutes looking it over in disgust after it was delivered. On the other hand, when you’re a big fan of obscure ghost stories with questionable public-domain status, sometimes you takes what you can gets.
The layout is not fantastic: it’s in 6-point font with gigantic margins, and the intro, table of contents, and beginning of the title story are all slapped onto the first page, one after the other. No endpaper, no title page, no publication or cataloguing information (evidently the publisher preferred to keep their name off of this thing). Also, the front cover has a black-and-white photo of Burrage with a “cracked paint” filter, which has been tinted magenta for some damn reason.
Fortunately, the text itself seems to be in OK shape. Burrage’s stories are well-plotted, and more smoothly written than some of his contemporaries’; several of them also go to darker places than were typical for his time. “Smee” is still my favorite, but the others so far have been quite good too.
Finished: Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
Started: The Life of a Useless Man, by Maxim Gorky
I finished On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, like exactly 6 days ago, it’s perhaps the best book I’ve ever read
And it’s been like 3 mins since I’ve finished White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky, really liked it.
Finished The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, started The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Finished: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King.
Started: Needful Things by Stephen King.