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What I Finished Reading This Week
I feel like I finished something, but can’t for the life of me remember what it was. That is the sort of week I have been having.
What I Am Currently Reading
Lexicon – Max Barry
I knew absolutely nothing about this book going in, but it came highly recommended by a friend. I’m enjoying it so far. The action and character reactions are very well done. I just hope the author isn’t going to lean as heavily into the “women are natural born liars and deadly manipulators” trope as the text so far suggests he might.
Book of Night – Holly Black
I read this when it first came out and remember very little of it; thus, I’m reading it again.
The Party and the People – Bruce Dickson
I said last week that I’d have this one finished by today and then…managed to read a whopping two pages of it over the following seven days. Oops.
Galatea – Madeline Miller
I read a page or two last night before bed, so it's still very early days for this small book.
Lucy Holland – Song of the Huntress
I did not have high expectations for this novel when I bought it, but I'm please to report I am very much enjoying it.
What I DNF
The Welsh Fasting Girl – Varley O'Connor
This novel had an intriguing premise: an American journalist and probable war widow (her husband went MIA in the US Civil War) travels to rural Wales to investigate reports of a Welsh adolescent who hasn’t eaten in 18 months; the fasting girl of the title was a real person.
But the writing. OMG, the writing. It's far from the most affected prose I've ever read but the affectation is such that I really have to work to absorb what's going on in each sentence, to the point that it's a struggle to get through five pages at a time. I am therefore putting this is one on permanent pause.
What I’m Reading Next
This week I acquired Nancy Gareth’s Tarot Made Easy, Madeline Miller’s Galatea, and V.E. Schwab’s The Near Witch.
これで以上です。
I feel like I finished something, but can’t for the life of me remember what it was. That is the sort of week I have been having.
What I Am Currently Reading
Lexicon – Max Barry
I knew absolutely nothing about this book going in, but it came highly recommended by a friend. I’m enjoying it so far. The action and character reactions are very well done. I just hope the author isn’t going to lean as heavily into the “women are natural born liars and deadly manipulators” trope as the text so far suggests he might.
Book of Night – Holly Black
I read this when it first came out and remember very little of it; thus, I’m reading it again.
The Party and the People – Bruce Dickson
I said last week that I’d have this one finished by today and then…managed to read a whopping two pages of it over the following seven days. Oops.
Galatea – Madeline Miller
I read a page or two last night before bed, so it's still very early days for this small book.
Lucy Holland – Song of the Huntress
I did not have high expectations for this novel when I bought it, but I'm please to report I am very much enjoying it.
What I DNF
The Welsh Fasting Girl – Varley O'Connor
This novel had an intriguing premise: an American journalist and probable war widow (her husband went MIA in the US Civil War) travels to rural Wales to investigate reports of a Welsh adolescent who hasn’t eaten in 18 months; the fasting girl of the title was a real person.
But the writing. OMG, the writing. It's far from the most affected prose I've ever read but the affectation is such that I really have to work to absorb what's going on in each sentence, to the point that it's a struggle to get through five pages at a time. I am therefore putting this is one on permanent pause.
What I’m Reading Next
This week I acquired Nancy Gareth’s Tarot Made Easy, Madeline Miller’s Galatea, and V.E. Schwab’s The Near Witch.
これで以上です。
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