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Finished: **Holly** by Stephen King & **Breakfast at Tiffany’s** by Truman Capote
Started: **This Is Where I Leave You** by Jonathan Tropper
Finished:
**Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett** (audiobook)
Continued:
**A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin** (will finish today)
Finished:
**Earthlings, by Sayaka Murata**
Started:
**Rock Paper Scissors, by Alice Feeney**
The Best There Ever Was. A biography about Mickey Mantle.
Finished
**Planetside, by Michael Mammay**
Continuing
**The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson**
**The Gene: An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee**
Started
**Spaceside, by Michael Mammay**
**Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook (2024)**
Finished:
**The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu**
Started:
**The City of Brass, by Shannon Chakraborty**
This past week I finished:
Human acts by Han Kang
Lord of the flies by William Golding
Welcome to the Hyunam Dong Bookshop by Bo-reun Hwang
And I have started The city and its uncertain walls by Murakami
Finished: One Day. I hadn’t watched the movie or the Netflix show (probably won’t watch the latter) but the ending hit me like a bus. I’m emotionally drained
I finished Mystic River by Daniel Lehane.
Started Upgrade by Blake Crouch.
Started & Finished:
**The Midnight House, by Amanda Geard**
**The Midnight Feast, by Lucy Foley**
**The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines**
And
**The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin**
– Reading both these in an effort to read more nonfiction.
**Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson**
– Recently released book 5 of the Stormlight Archive. Normally I would be blitzed through the book and finished it in 3 days, but trying to slow down and savor it.
**Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguch**
– Just finished it and didn’t love it. I can see the appeal but it just wasn’t for me. It’s a quick read, though.