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i started the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan a few days ago, on heroes of Olympus rn and I’m loving it so far!! the last Olympians book is defo my fav uptil now <33
Started:
**Antiquity, by Hanna Johansson**
**A Good Happy Girl, by Marissa Higgins**
**Alice Sadie Celine, by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright**
the one from Bernard Minier
Seven summers paige toon finished
Where the dark stands still, A.B. Poranek
Started this week and finishing it tonight (hopefully)☺️
**The Women of Wynton’s by Donna Mumma**
The world Mumma has created is wonderful! I love the differences in personalities between the characters. A real gem of a book!
**A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston**
What a fun premise for a story! I loved Asley Poston’s books The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics, as well. She delivers a really interesting story and an HEA everytime.
Finished:
**On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi by Ryusho Kadota.**
Started:
**Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.**
Finished:
The Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman
Started:
Blackflame, by Will Wight
Finished:
**Augustus, by John Williams**
Started:
**The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis**
Finished:
**11/22/63 by Stephen King**. My first SK book and not sure I’ll race for another. >!I know this book generally has high praise and I was drawn in with a lot of interest at the start, but I simply wasn’t into the romance and this is perhaps the biggest theme of the book (is this perhaps because I listened to the audiobook? Sadie was just.. dull. And the sex scenes were beyond awkward to listen to), it probably dragged on far too long and I just felt so let down by the ending and didn’t believe in the MC. Would a millennial really give up years of their life to do this? A Baby Boomer sure, but would Gen X or Y? I’m a little younger than the MC and not American, but my heart wouldn’t be in it. It felt like he did it for Al, but we aren’t really given the impression they were ever particularly too close.!<
Started:
**The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz**
**The God of the Woods by Liz Moore** – me and everyone and their dog started reading this! First few chapters in and my one complaint is that there are a lot of characters.
**Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology** – I’ve been waiting to get this on audio and it’s very good so far.
Finished **Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky**
Finished:
You Like It Darker, by Stephen King.
Stephen King’s short stories always blow me away. Every story was fantastic in this one.
Started:
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, by Peter S Beagle
A much needed light hearted book after reading Stephen King. I’m loving it so far.
Finished:
Trials of Apollo: Book 3 The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan
Started:
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Started: **A Devil in White City, by Erik Larson**
Will be finished by the end of the week: **The Book Thief**
I started reading it back in HS (though only a few pages because the book was my roommate’s and she wouldn’t let me read further from page 8 lol). Got my own book in year one of college and it took me years to get back to it since 500 pages is a lot for someone like me who hasn’t read anything in many years.
In about two weeks I read half a book. It is good but the narrative is kind of too slow for me. Good story but I feel like many of the scenes are just unnecessary. I will continue reading it tho (about 30 pages left), I wanna know what happens to Liesel (since I already know what happens to everyone else).
Finished: **Wrong place wrong time, by Gillian McAllister**
I really loved this book, actually I found the drafting of the text quite relaxed for a thriller and there’s a strong sentimental part in it. The plot is brilliant.
Finished:
**Forget Me Not**, by M.J. Arlidge. Just an ok-ish read for me.
**Soup Forest**, by syuu. Fun easy read, was in the mood for such a story.
**What Are Museums For?**, by Jon Sleigh. Interesting and at times infuriating, not sure i agree (fully) with the way museums should change/go according to the ppl interviewed.
Started:
– **Uzumaki**, by Junji Ito. Let’s see how it fares against the hype.
– **Call for the Dead**, by John Le Carré. Smiley was already old in 1962. And he was the same degree of old in _Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy_, published more than a decade later. Now I get where people come from when they say that the Smiley timeline is a mess.
Finished:
– **Shutter Island**, by Dennis Lehane. Fantastic book, and a pretty fast read. Lehane has not missed in any of the books I’ve read by him (4 of the Kenzie and Gennaro series, _Mystic River_, and _Small Mercies_).
Finished:
The Fires of Heaven, by Robert Jordan
Started:
The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
Continuing:
House of Shadow and Flame, by Sarah J. Maas
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
I’m re-reading Follet’s *Pillars of the Earth*. Two decades ago, I didn’t notice how much “torture porn” is in it. Yikes, it’s got a lot of gratuitous violence and subjugation. Still waiting for the architecture part to kick in…
Eh-ehm… A bit slow at this time.
Finished **Lock Every Door, by Riley Sager**, DNF’d **Spinning Silver, by Naoimi Novik** and started **Broken Monsters, by Lauren Beukes**
Finished:
The Shadow of the Gods, by John Gwynne
Started
Threadneedle, by Cari Thomas.
Shoe Dog – Phil Knight.
Pretty interesting to hear how such a massive corporation was once a tiny operation frequently on the chopping block. The end was pretty powerful. I hope there is a follow up for the years not covered.
Finished:
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 4
Started:
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Finished:
We Used To Live Here, by Marcus Kliewer
The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat
Started:
The Magus, by John Fowles
Finished : The Subtle Art of Not giving a F*ck By Mark Manson
Started: Crucial conversations By Stephen R. Covey
Finished:
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut