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**11/22/63 by The King ( 4.5 / 5 )**
Have recently been getting into Stephen King more and more. Started with The Stand at the beginning of Covid, then did Fairy Tale and then The Shining. I don’t know why I stayed away from King for so long, but everytime I read one of his books I want to pick up another right away.
I really enjoyed 11/22/63, but was hoping to feel a bit more suspense with it.
The Chill, by Ross Macdonald
A Lou Archer hard boiled private detective story. Anything by Ross Macdonald is worth reading.
The Vedic People; Their History and Geography , by RAJESH KOCHHAR
Very interesting n well researched history of the creators of the Rig-Veda. Wordy n repetitive in sections. Good maps.
Recently finished:
*Morning Star* by Pierce Brown – Not as good as Golden Son but still very good. Taking a small break before diving into the back half of the series.
Started:
*The Way of Kings* – by Brandon Sanderson. About 200 pages in. Mix of audiobook while driving and reading when I have time. Im finding it a bit difficult to keep track of all the names and places. On top of a lot of characters (some who don’t seem noteworthy) the names are very “fantasy”esque names.
I stayed up till 2 AM last night finishing **Cibola Burn by James S.A Corey,** the fourth book in **The Expanse** series . Aside form the Elvi chapters, I loved it; a huge and dramatic change of pace for the series, a really strong antagonist, a wild finale and a cliffhanger that has me chomping at the bit for what comes next. This series is my favorite science fiction series in a long, long time!
Gonna read **Pet Sematary** next to get in the spooky mood for October before diving into book five!
I have finally started reading **Collected Fictions, by Borges**. How did I live this long without reading his stories? I’m annoyed that in all my years of over-education I never encountered these in a class.
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Such a sweet fun read.
*Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer*
Saw a post about McCandless on r/pics and was curious. The library didn’t have Krakauers book Into Thin Air so that’ll be on my list for later.
**DMZ: M.I.A., by Brian Wood**
I finished The Passage. I did not know it was a trilogy. Don’t think I will read the next books. Cool idea and decent writing but characters felt flat.
I hope to finish Total Money Makeover this week.
Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
This was my first read by this author. I also have Gone Girl and will certainly be reading it when I need another mystery, being that I enjoyed her writing so much! I gave it a 4/5.
I Robot, by Isaac Asimov
Just started this one. I saw the movie ages ago when it came out but have barely any recollection of it. I’m highly enjoying it so far!
Finished: Nothing! Took a little break from reading last week
Started:
1. Rue de La Glacière (La Poussière du Temps livre #1) by Michel David.
I’m French but am more drawn to English books for some reason. My mother recommended this book to me due to it being placed in the early 1940s in the area where I’m from so I’m going to give it a try !
2. Lord John and The Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
Just a big fan of her work and am very excited that she wrote this book about one of the characters from her Outlander series.
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
Finished in time for book club tonight. I enjoyed it. It was more serious than Deacon King Kong, but also had humor.
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez.
I absolutely loved it. The book touches on a lot of delicate topics such as LGBTQ discrimination, racial profiling and religion. The protagonist went through so much struggle in his young life. The ending was so satisfying. I recommend.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman.
Probably the read of the year for me. Learned some things. So much heart in that book.
Calling for a Blanket Dance, by Oscar Hokeah
I found this book in an airport and only bought it because I finished a book I brought with me. I’m really glad I read it, though. I wasn’t entirely in love with the style of this book but it was still quite touching and interesting.
Dropped *The Dark Forest* by Liu Cixin. The protagonist Luo Ji is a pathetic, sexist, spoiled child. So he imagines some perfect, demure, innocent woman in his dreams, commands his cop friend to find someone just like that, and then makes her stay with him? And she doesn’t have a problem with this?
I could not take it anymore. The book reads like an incel’s fantasy romance.
**Help, I’m Trapped in an Alien’s Body, by Todd Strasser**
Remembered that I read this at random as part of a book report or some summer reading program way back in the day. I suppose I had no better ideas for things to read back then. But whatever, the me now was bored and it made for something to skim re-read to kill some time.
Finished: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (by Leo Tolstoy)
Started reading: Atlas Shrugged (by Ayn Rand)
Started: *A Confederacy of Dunces* by John Kennedy Toole. I’m about 2/3 through. I am enjoying it very much and find it generally amusing, but I haven’t really found it as laugh out loud funny as some seem to. I think I struggle with humor in books, in general. But I am liking it more than most satires I’ve tried. Ignatius is a wonderfully awful character. The progenitor neckbeard.
Just finished **House of Many Ways, by Diana Wynne Jones**. Book three set in the world of *Howl’s Moving Castle.* I enjoyed it! I want my own Waif. 🙂
I haven’t started anything new, mostly because I finished this less than 24 hours ago, haha. Tonight I’ll have to sit and stare at my book shelves and see what demands to be read next….
Finished The Mummy by Anne Rice. It was a lot of fun, and the first Rice novel I managed to finish. Had a hard time with her vampire novels. This one was more accessible. Felt like a Hollywood flick. I loved it.
Finished: Dune – Frank Herbert
Started/finished: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil – George Saunders
Started: The Mountain in the Sea – Ray Nayler
I finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy. I’d seen the Noomi Rapace movies a number of times. The books are better.
I’m reading The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
Finished:
The Spanish Love Deception, by Elena Armas
Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert
The Love Hypothesis, by Ali Hazelwood
The American Roommate Experiment, by Elena Armas
Started/continued:
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
The Beekeeper of Aleppo, by Christy Lefteri
The Final Empire (Mistborn), by Brandon Sanderson
The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy
Clearly I’m ADD as hell
Finished:
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, by Julia Cooke. I went into this thinking that I would listen for a five minutes and DNF, but I actually enjoyed this a lot more than I expected.
Started:
Freezing Order, by Bill Browder.
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum. I’m on a bit of a non-fiction kick at the moment.
Resumed:
Cordelia’s Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Omnibus edition of Shards of Honor and Barrayar. I love the Vorkosigan Saga.
Started:
one dark window by Rachel Gillig
Finished: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon.
It took me a very long time to get into because there are so many characters with so many difficult to pronounce, overly fantasized names. Once I trained myself to not try to pronounce them in my head I was able to actually enjoy the story. Did I enjoy the book? 6/10. Will I read another of hers? Probably not.
**Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann**
Finished
I saw some post on Instagram where a girl was crying after reading a book. I made fun of her in my mind. And then…
I saw this post where a girl was sitting outside a restaurant and crying because a character in the book she was reading died. Finny, from If he had been with me. I read the book thinking it can’t be that bad. I’m not crying over a character from a book, not even a movie.
I cried. A lot. I keep thinking about the interactions between Autumn and Finny and can only think damn he was in love with her in that moment too. Damn he must be hurting then, when she said because they were friends and it’s not weird and he just says oh.
I generally get attached to characters from movies or animes or shows. But I thought book wouldn’t be like that.
You’ll have your own imagination of the people and own imagination of the scenes and situations and scenarios and feelings too. And it actually hurts double or gives you double the joy when it’s something you’ve recreated in your mind after reading how it is described. My head is hurting.
**Bread and Wine, by Ignazio Silone**
**L’invitée (She Came to Stay) by Simone de Beauvoir**
Was prepared to have complicated feelings about this one, a fictionalised autobiographical novel dealing with an episode in de Beauvoir and Sartre’s open relationship, with the sisters Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz (combined I think into one?), but feel a bit like I’ve accidentally started reading *Lolita*. Which I couldn’t handle. In Sartre’s *Les chemins de la liberté* I adored and related a bit to the character of Ivich, here fictionalised once again as Xavière, and was curious to see de Beauvoir’s more true-to-events version of the situation. Here though the young girl is even younger, and though perhaps less immediately vulnerable, it’s sort of worse because her shifts in moods, rather than a sign of being neurodivergent, though she may well be, come across more obviously as a resistance to frankly predatory behaviour. Sartre’s version is oddly both more conventional (man has early mid-life crisis) and more romanticised. This is interesting because it has a slow-paced quietly brutal realism. But, oh no! I wish she could escape from the wicked pair of them.
Finished: **Hearing Secret Harmonies** by **Anthony Powell**. The twelfth and final novel in the author’s cycle **A Dance to the Music of Time**. I read the first 9 novels in quick order many years ago, but put off (why?) the last three novels for only the last year. There are so many characters, you might ask how can the reader keep track. You can’t and that is not the point. It is Powell’s language and musings. A few characters of course create some continuity between the novels. I think I will start the cycle again.
**DMZ: Collective Punishment, by Brian Wood**