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Finished:
**Shogun, by James Clavell** (audiobook)
Continuing:
**The Widow, by Fiona Barton** (e-book)
Started:
**The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden** (audiobook); time to see what all the fuss is about, I guess.
**The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, by John Green**
Despite the title, it’s a coffee-table book with short … it could’ve been newspaper columns on seemingly random technology or social phenomena. I didn’t realize that the author was the John Green from YouTube (Vlogbrothers); makes sense.
**Power of the Powerless, by Václav Havel**
Revisited again to see how relevant it is in this day and age.
**Jak jsme zkoumali Gregora Johanna Mendela**
Pop-science brochure on genomic research of Gregor Johann Mendel’s remains.
**The Burning God, by R. F. Kuang**
**Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
**The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant**
**Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones, by Hettie Judah**
The Roadside Picnic, by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky. (Started)
Finished
Falling , by TJ Newman
100 years of solitude by G. G. Márquez. Brilliant book but it left me in tears almost. Mostly because it was difficult for me to keep track of what was going on.
Planning to read Great Gatsby next
Just finished “Tech Heaven” by Linda Nagata. It was meh.
Starting Perdido Station by China Mieville. Not sure if I’ll finish; it’s a little too fascinated with the grotesque for me.
Also reading MindSet by Carol Dweck (nonfiction), which is good!
Finished Under the Dome by Stephen King.
Ending was far too rushed and spoiled it for me. All that world building to rush through and not give a detailed ending was a waste. The rest was phenomenal.
Started The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.
Finished:
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow
Started:
Best Served Cold, by Joe Abbercrombie
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello
The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie
(Finished this weekend) I am hopeful that the sheer amount of groundwork will pay off if I keep going. It felt like a direct lineage from “A Wheel of Time” in some ways. Not sure I’ll revisit any time soon but I’m definitely going to keep myself open to the series.
Cultish, by Amanda Montell
(Just started, only about 70 pages in). The topic alone is intriguing. I appreciate the author being upfront that this is not a work of academia and instead I can enjoy it like an op-ed that’s been extrapolated. The chapters are just long enough to avoid tedium but I think some of the cult sections are better served if you come in with some background knowledge (that’s not a profound claim by any means hahaha). Excited to read the rest.
Continuing: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
Will be with this one a while I think.
Also been quite distracted rereading One Piece lol.
I finished The Secret of Secrets from Dan Brown
Finished:
**The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow**
**Angelica and the Bear Prince, by Trung Le Nguyen**
**Thirty Below, by Cassidy Randall**
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the week before: Dracula by Bram Stoker