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Started and finished:
Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
One Dark Window, by Rachel Gillig
Two Twisted Crowns, by Rachel Gillig
Continued reading: *The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*. This week I read “The Final Problem”.
I feel, for many of Sherlock’s stories, they’re less “mystery” writing, where the reader has something to solve along with the detective, and more so character pieces about a detective. This was true for A Study in Scarlet, where the reader couldn’t really have solved the case, as Sherlock just rattled off a bunch of observations before the reader really got a good description of the scene, and it was true for The Final Problem, where there’s not even an explicit crime that has occured to solve. We hear off hand that Moriarty makes plans and Sherlock makes plans around those plans, or how Sherlock makes plans to escape, and how Moriarty predicts the plans Sherlock would make, and how Sherlock assumes Moriarty would be aware of the types of plans he himself can make, so makes plans around his plans (it can get a bit circular with those two), but again, there’s no crime to solve. As well, just like the Greek Interpreter, this story is more a thriller about organised crime than an explicit case to solve by the reader/Sherlock. But, a character piece isn’t a bad thing, however, it’s just that my intentions to read Sherlock came with my assumption I’d be reading murder mysteries to solve more often than I ended up doing.
I still have about four stories to go in this collection, however.
DNF:
**Open Socrates, by Anges Callard**
Started:
**Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue, by Buddy Levy**
Started and finished: Flashlight by Susan Choi
Gonna start: Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (read it when i was 13/14 maybe so planning on rereading it)
Finished: The Haunting of Hill House
Started and Finished: A Short Stat in Hell
Ice, by Jacek Dukaj.
Holy what-was-that I am having a blast. The story is amazing and the character’s moments of introspection are leaving me looking out the window speachless for entire minutes.
Finished **Ghost Story, Peter Straub** and started **Stinger, Robert McCammon**. I listen to audio books since I walk a lot for fitness.
Temptress Liar Soldier Spy by Karen Abbott.
Some people are critical of the sources used, but it’s a great read. I looked up things I questioned which made it interactive! I learned so much.
**The Burning God, by R. F Kuang**
**The Woman Who Died A Lot, by Jasper Fforde**
**Severance, by Ling Ma**
**The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker**
**Cryoburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
Finished: The Land in Winter, by Andrew Miller
Started: On the Calculation of Volume, Book 3, by Solvej Balle
Finished The Winter Mantle by Elizabeth Chadwick and started A Murder in Merrywell by Jane Bettany.
I started two new books:
The emperor of gladness, Ocean Vuong
AND Madonna in a fur coat, Sabahattin Ali
*Finished* Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
*Started* Armada by Ernest Cline
After finishing this RPO last week, now I understand why it’s on a lot of people’s top book list of the 2010s. Still I think there are things the movie does better while the novel has some interesting ideas.
Finished – The Bell Jar – Plath
Started – The Snow Child – Ivey
Finished:Â
**The Strength of The Few, by J. Islington**
Liked it. While my favorite POV was the least connected (and from what I’ve seen online least popular) to the other two, I rather enjoyed all three. Looking forward to the next instalmentÂ
Started and finished:
**The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell**
Somehow I’ve gotten more and more interested in the Arthurian Mythos these last months, and I enjoyed Saxon Chronicles, so though Cornwell could be entertaining to read. Also just a side note, but fate being inexorable really pops up in every Cornwell book, I’ve read so far
Started it in book form, but when I discovered Jonathan Keeble was narrating the audiobook, I had to listen to it. Love that man’s narration.Â
Then I started:Â
**Paladin’s Faith, by T. Kingfisher**
Needed something cosy-ish
**On Freedom, Timothy Snyder**
Started. A bit too philosophical, but I like where Snyder is going. For example referencing US interventions in Latin America.
**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, esp. on the 17th November (the anniversary of Czechoslovak “Velvet revolution”). And it is relevant indeed. The analysis of “post-totalitarian” society can be applied to large swaths of neoliberal society almost verbatim.
Finished
**Cover Her Face, by PD James**
Started
**Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir**
Finished All the Colors of the dark and started Psalm for the wild built
Finished
**Tom’s Crossing, by Mark Z. Danielewski**
Possibly recency bias but this is at least in the conversation for the best book I’ve ever read, maybe even number 1. MZD has outdone himself here with the expertly and deliberately slow storytelling immersing you in the minute details of the setting and characters. The linguistic genius this man harbours has never been more obvious than it is here with near every page having some gorgeous passage that warrants re-reading. This isn’t an experience I’m gonna be forgetting anytime soon, if you’ve been on the fence with this one just dive in. 10/10.
Started
**The Odyssey, by Homer**
Tom’s Crossing was littered with references to Homer’s epics so it seems about the right time to drag this off my shelf.
Finished:
The Martian by Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Started:
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
We’ll prescribe you a cat by Syou Ishida
**Started**
– Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
– SCUM manifesto, by Valerie Solanas
– Wild dark shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
**Finished**
– The woman in the window, by A.J. Finn
– The time travelers wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
– The safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden
– Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
Finished: *Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery* by Brom.
Started: *Hamnet* by Maggie O’ Farrell
Frankenstein. It’s been on my reading list for years.