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I read an early Kristin Hannah book, Magic Hour. Not her best.
Finished
**My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency, by Annie Jacobsen**
**The Sequel by, Jean Hanff Korelitz**
Started
**The Angel of Indian Lake, by Stephen Graham Jones**
Continuing:
**The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman**
Finished
A thousand splendid suns
Starting
Crime and punishment
Finished Scythe
Finished
**Dinner at the Night Library: A Novel by Hika Harada**
Finished No Longer Human by Dazai and started War and Peace
Finished:
**The Nanny’s Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes, by Amy Rose Bennett**
**Royal Icing, by Madison Score**
**The Mean Ones, by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne**
Finished: **The Collector, by John Fowles**
I wasn’t sure what to expect since I stumbled across this in the local used bookstore and hadn’t heard of it before, but I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed its complexity and eccentricity.
Started: **Wild Thing: A Life Of Paul Gauguin, by Sue Prideaux**
Heard good things about this and haven’t read an engrossing biography in ages, so I’m hoping this is the ticket.
Finished: The Nightingale
Started: Salem’s Lot & The Will Of The Many
Finished
The Morningside, by Téa Obreht
Started
When We Were Sisters, by Fatimah Asghar
Finished: The Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson
Started: Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow
Finished:
* **Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice**, by **Rachel Kolb**
* **A Hole in the Story**, by **Ken Kalfus**
* **Slow Gods**, by **Claire North**
* **How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things**, by **Jenny L. Davis**
* **A Guardian and a Thief**, by **Megha Majumdar**
* **There Is No Antimemetics Division**, by **qntm**
Started:
* **Fire in Every Direction**, by **Tareq Baconi**
**Normal People, by Sally Rooney**
Binged in one night. I actually gave the book to my grandma last year, I try to push my folks out of their comfort zone, and she thought it was “interesting”. Interesting indeed.
**The Dogs of Paradise, by Abel Posse**
Started. Alternative history of early colonization of America. Very poetic, absurd and sometimes hilarious.
**The Overstory, by Richard Powers**
Started. I’m not sure if I currently have the mental capacity for it though.
Started: Evil Under the Sun, by Agatha Christie
Still Reading: Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice
Continued: **The Aeneid, by Virgil**. Finished books one and two, onto book three.
Finished: The Secret History by Donna Tart
Started: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Finished:
The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Susanne Collins – a great prequel, Snow is the best Hunger games character.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – one of the most beautiful stories I’ve read this year.
Foster by Claire Keegan – thank god it’s not as haunting as “Small things like this”, just very sad.
Sunrise on the reaping by Susanne Collins – what the fuck was that, left me completely shook, absolutely brutal. Can’t wait for the movie to come out.
Started: not really sure what to read next tbh, will probably go for something chill.
Finished: The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami.
Loved the concept, couldn’t put it down for the first half, then felt like it dragged.
Finished : Troy by Stephen Fry
Started : Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Finished:
**Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik** – one of my top reads of the year. Loved it.
Started:
**Uprooted, by Naomi Novik** – so far it’s not as good as Spinning Silver but still enjoyable.
Finished: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Oh what a roller coaster. I live in Germany and I meet many Syrians here who came as refugees and made a life for themselves. I always feel so proud of them when I see them growing in their life! 🥲
Started: Atonement by Ian McGowan
Finished
**Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski**
Hands down my least favourite MZD book. It’s not an abomination but it feels like all the pretentiousness obscures a really basic story. At the very least I did the enjoy the rhythm of it and there was some nice passages.
Started
**A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens**
Never read the book but I’m sure I don’t have enough fingers to count many times I’ve seen various movie adaptations of it.
In progress
**The Letters of Shirley Jackson, by Laurence Jackson-Hyman**
I’ll get to the end of this eventually.
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins.
At least I hope I finish this week. I haven’t had time to read because I’m adjusting to a new job.