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Finished:
**The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson**
**Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger**
**Such Great Heights, by Chris DeVille**
**Bog Queen, by Anna North**
**To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee**
Started, currently 1/3 through. It’s interesting, not at all what I’d expected; maybe I got it confused with a different book? I’m not an (US-)American, so this is a shot in the dark.
**Evolution & Revolution: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Peter Kropotkin, by Graham Purchase**
Started. The first part is Kropotkin’s curious biography, though I’m more interested in history/philosophy of science, i.e., adoption of mutualism in biology … and the anarchist theory too, but I have plenty of that already.
Finished:
Emma, by Jane Austen
Andromeda, by ES McLeod
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
Finished
**First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance, by Annie Jacobsen**
**The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Adult Entertainment, by Patricia Nilsson and Alex Barker**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman**
Started
**Orbital, by Samantha Harvey**
Continue with **Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Started and finished **The Lakeside Murder Case** by Keigo Higashino.
Finished:
***The House on the Borderland***, **by William Hope Hodgson**
Started:
***Lady Into Fox***, **by David Garnett**
Finished:
**Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis**. With this book I’ve finished my “books that I have pretended to read in the past.” I liked this book the best of the trilogy now, Bras Cubas in second, and Quincas Borba my least favorite. I loved the debate and interpretation of >!Capitu’s betrayal and who really is the father of Ezekiel (I forgot his name).!<I liked it, but not like “Wow, it changed my life.” A good classic 4/5.
Now I’ve started and finished the week with ”sequels of books that I’ve read”.
**A gentleman of leisure by P. G. Wodehouse**. It is not a sequel but is the novel version rewritten from the novella “The Gem Collector,” and they changed a lot of the narrative… well, at least in the beginning because I felt by the end it was a bit too similar to the novella. Overall 3.5/5 enjoyable, but kind of the same.
**Left of forever by Tarah DeWitt**. Sequel to “Savor It,” but you don’t need to read it to understand, so it’s kind of standalone. I love the characters, I loved the beginning and the end, and I love the payoff, but Jesus Christ, why so much smut by the middle of it? Well, a 4/5.
**Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale**. Sequel to “My Lady’s Heart,” I loved this book; the payoff was so good. I loved everything about it except sometimes the fmc made me kinda angry with her decisions, and I didn’t like much the romance itself. Well, a 4.5/5 for sure.
DNF:
**The Garden of God by Henry de Vere Stacpoole**. Sequel to “Blue Lagoon”: Well, in the end of the previous book,>! the main characters were found in a boat. The beginning of this book said they are dead. Okay, I won’t read anymore; I don’t care about the other characters to read this!<. I read the summary in the wiki, and honestly, I don’t regret it.
Started:
This week I will do “Books with premises that make me uncomfortable.” Starting with **Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov.**
**War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy**
**De Bello Gallico, by Gaius Julius Caesar**
**The Red Queen, by Isobelle Carmody**
**The Farthest Shore, by Ursula Le Guin**
Just finished A Little Life last night. What a ride, such an incredible story and touching moments
Look Closer, David Ellis