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**Flight To Arras, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry** started
**The Gene: An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee** continued
It’s exceptionally well written, and quite accessible.
**Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System, by Safdar Ahmed** finished
Recommendation from a discussion about Maus by Art Spiegelman. I already knew about the topic, including instances closer to home (e.g., European detention in northern Africa), so I’ve been more focused on the execution. Some segments communicate emotions *very well* or efficiently if you will. OTOH, the book is very fragmented and some of the later chapters feel rushed.
Finished
**A Room with a View by E.M. Forster**
Started
**The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die (Dr. Siri Paiboun 9) by Colin Cotterill**
Finished IT by Stephen King this morning 5 stars loved it.
No idea what to read next need a little break from horror books
Finished:
**Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis**, the first book in his religious sci-fi trilogy. In some ways, it has held up remarkably well. It involves a stray Cambridge professor (who I strongly suspect was based on Lewis’ friend Tolkien) getting, um, forcibly recruited on a mission to Mars. His colleagues/captors are a sociopathic eugenicist, and a guy who’s only in it for the money. Which…yeah.
**Gods of Jade and Shadow, by Silvia Moreno Garcia**, a fantasy novel set in 1920s Mexico and based on Mayan religion. The main character gets roped into helping the ruler of Xibalba regain his throne; he happens to be divinely handsome, while she’s Not Pretty Like Other Girls, and for the first half of the book they can barely stand each other.
Stop me if you know where this is going.
(Teasing aside, the cultural side of the book seemed to be really well-researched, with the religious and historical elements tying into the plot in effective ways—but then again, I’m not a good judge when it comes to this setting and subject matter.)
Working on: **Ghosts of Spain, by Giles Tremlett**, non-fiction on 20th-century Spanish history, and how that history (particularly the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship) has affected its present-day society and politics.
Finished:
**The Governess Was Wicked, by Julia Kelly**
**Overgrowth, by Mira Grant**
**Fiona and the Fixer, by Vanessa Vale**
**Women in the Picture, by Catherine McCormack**
**Aggregated Discontent, by Harron Walker**
**The Mountain’s Mate, by Sara Ivy Hill**