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Started and finished:
Our Wives Under the Sea, by Julia Armfield
The Betrayal of Thomas True, by AJ West
Stag Dance, by Torrey Peters
Started:
Wayward, by Emilia Hart
**1984, by George Orwell**
Revisiting it after 15+ years; I’ve read many other Orwell’s books in the meantime.
**Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence**
Currently 2/3 through. I didn’t learn about modernist literature until relatively recently.
**Poprvé v poušti, by Alois Musil** finished
**The German Mujahid, by Boualem Sansal** finished
**Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, by Bill McKibben** slowly continued
**Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism, by Emily Ogden** started
**Mesmerism: its history, phenomena, and practice, with reports of cases developed in Scotland, by William Lang** did (not) finish
**Three Dialogues on Knowledge, by Paul Karl Feyerabend** restarted
**The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn** slowly continued
This week I read **Queen Macbeth, by Val McDermid**. It’s a novel telling of the story of Gruoch, who was a real person with a historical record that’s different from how she is portrayed in Shakespeare’s Scottish play. I liked it, though the ending felt rushed.
Finished: The Family Inside by Katie Garman
Started: If It Bleeds by Stephen King
Finished: **Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu**. I give it 3.5/5.
Interesting to see how the vampire myth was told (especially before Dracula). Not the same lore, but just as rule bound. Many of the same plot beats too, but Carmilla tried to hold onto the vampire “mystery” until much later in the text (Dracula was revealed as vampire at 50% of his book, Carmilla is held out until like the 85% mark, and even then a lot is just explained after the fact).
It had really strong vibes to begin with, very character based, but I feel it got more and more dictated by the plot by the end, to the character’s expense. The codependent relationship of Carmilla/Laura was more prominent in this book, at least, and I feel the strength of this book (as problematic ane imbalanced as it is). The nature of their relationship was detailed with more than I thought you could get away with from this era, too.
Started: **The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho**. Almost finished that too. Could easily be a top 5 for me.