I‘m halfway through The Expanse Book 3 (Abaddon‘s Gate) – though it’s not as good as the first two books still a good read
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*Mean spirit* by Linda Hogan
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The memory wood by Sam Lloyd
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Just finished: Not just a moment by Ivy Wilson, reads like a hallmark movie. Definitely recommend
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Kurt Vonnegut “Breakfast of champions”, it’s not my genre at all, so I’m being a little confused 😅
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Murder on Marble Row – Victoria Thompson.
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American Dirt by Jeanie Cummins
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, thoroughly reccomend it
I just finished The Girl Who Drank the Moon, and would probably reccomend it to the right request, specifically someone who likes rambly, cozish fairy tale-like stories.
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Currently reading *From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume 2: The Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the French Revolution* by Marilyn French. There are 4 volumes total spanning from prehistory to modern day, and so far they are fantastic reads and absolutely fascinating.
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Terrifyingly topical.
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I randomly picked up *The Last Samurai* by Helen DeWitt and I have absolutely no idea how I hadn’t heard of it before, but I’m completely infatuated. It’s like a love letter to literature and art and knowledge as a concept. It’s definitely not for everyone (I think a good gauge is whether you liked *The Secret History* or not lol) because it definitely toes the line between brilliant and pretentious/precocious but I guess tongue-in-cheek lowkey-ironic pretentiousness is my sense of humor?
I’m not a fan of stream-of-consciousness but somehow DeWitt’s variation on it is giving me one of the best understandings I’ve ever felt like I’ve developed of a character’s brain *without being directly told by the author how the character works.*
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not sure I would recommend what I’m reading tbh … The Hobbit , never been good at imagining landscape
on the other hand , just read anne of green gables and it was amazing
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Richard Titmuss’s *Problems of Social Policy*, part of the official British history of WW2. Together with the two volumes on food policy I also have, these make an enormously important point that right-wing regimes don’t want you to think about: catastrophe can be planned for. Planning the infrastructure of food, housing and medical care in the UK for resilience under enemy attack started in 1938 and was done in minute detail, covering every location and every role in society. And they kept adapting it as circumstances changed. The influence of this work went well beyond the war – “hey, if we can organize national healthcare under German bombardment, maybe we can do it in peacetime?”
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Currently reading Dracula and I don’t know if I would recommend it like not much vampire stuff is happening. It started good but now I’m a little bit bored but maybe that’s because I already know the story.
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I‘m halfway through The Expanse Book 3 (Abaddon‘s Gate) – though it’s not as good as the first two books still a good read
*Mean spirit* by Linda Hogan
The memory wood by Sam Lloyd
Just finished: Not just a moment by Ivy Wilson, reads like a hallmark movie. Definitely recommend
Kurt Vonnegut “Breakfast of champions”, it’s not my genre at all, so I’m being a little confused 😅
Murder on Marble Row – Victoria Thompson.
American Dirt by Jeanie Cummins
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, thoroughly reccomend it
I just finished The Girl Who Drank the Moon, and would probably reccomend it to the right request, specifically someone who likes rambly, cozish fairy tale-like stories.
Currently reading *From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume 2: The Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the French Revolution* by Marilyn French. There are 4 volumes total spanning from prehistory to modern day, and so far they are fantastic reads and absolutely fascinating.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Terrifyingly topical.
I randomly picked up *The Last Samurai* by Helen DeWitt and I have absolutely no idea how I hadn’t heard of it before, but I’m completely infatuated. It’s like a love letter to literature and art and knowledge as a concept. It’s definitely not for everyone (I think a good gauge is whether you liked *The Secret History* or not lol) because it definitely toes the line between brilliant and pretentious/precocious but I guess tongue-in-cheek lowkey-ironic pretentiousness is my sense of humor?
I’m not a fan of stream-of-consciousness but somehow DeWitt’s variation on it is giving me one of the best understandings I’ve ever felt like I’ve developed of a character’s brain *without being directly told by the author how the character works.*
not sure I would recommend what I’m reading tbh … The Hobbit , never been good at imagining landscape
on the other hand , just read anne of green gables and it was amazing
Richard Titmuss’s *Problems of Social Policy*, part of the official British history of WW2. Together with the two volumes on food policy I also have, these make an enormously important point that right-wing regimes don’t want you to think about: catastrophe can be planned for. Planning the infrastructure of food, housing and medical care in the UK for resilience under enemy attack started in 1938 and was done in minute detail, covering every location and every role in society. And they kept adapting it as circumstances changed. The influence of this work went well beyond the war – “hey, if we can organize national healthcare under German bombardment, maybe we can do it in peacetime?”
Currently reading Dracula and I don’t know if I would recommend it like not much vampire stuff is happening. It started good but now I’m a little bit bored but maybe that’s because I already know the story.
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