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FINISHED:
**The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain**
It’s worth re-reading this one as an adult, if only so you can properly hate on Tom Sawyer.
**James, by Percival Everett**
I have some serious reservations about anyone who’s found this book “ferociously funny”. It was dark and deeply unsettling, and though I was largely disappointed with the direction the author took it in, it kinda reinforced a bizarre memory I have of Huck Finn.
**Another Day of Life, by Ryszard Kapuściński**
I lived in Angola for a couple of years during the first period of its civil war. I was just a kid and my family shielded me from any kind of mention of war but even at that age I knew that distant rumblings and sudden explosions in the night were not thunder. *Another Day of Life* was my first return to that country. Even if you don’t care about Angola or its place in the history of the world, I really recommend this book. It is masterfully written, first chapter alone has this unforgettable depiction of a city within a city, which is both frenetic and languid at the same time, not many could’ve captured that atmosphere with such ease. But there is, of course, more, even for such a tiny tiny book. My only complaint with it is the scarcity of background information, but I can easily satisfy my curiosity elsewhere.
**Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, by Yahtzee Croshaw**
More passive aggressive and snide than funny, even with its Red Dwarf borrowings. Picture it being written by a competent Rimmer.
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STARTED:
**Starfish, by Peter Watts** First in the Rifters trilogy.
**Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley** started
**Mornings in Jenin, by Susan Abulhawa** continued
**A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work, by Aaron Swartz** finished
Finished:
**The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald**
Started:
**The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck**
Continued:
**Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy**
I started intermezzo and I’m hosting it 😭 ugh. I had been putting it off for months because I loved normal people and I wanted to love this one too
Finished: The Waste Lands by Stephen King.
Started: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.