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Finished:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). Great read that has its reputation for a reason. Marquez is a tour de force when it comes to the written word.
Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon). Great read that is quite the interesting feminist retelling of the Saint George and the Dragon.
Started:
Farewell Kabul (Christina Lamb). About halfway. Very interesting look at our 20 years in Afghanistan.
FINISHED:
**At Night All Blood is Black, by David Diop**
**Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts, by Milan Kundera**
**Venomous Lumpsucker, by Ned Beauman**
**A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems, by Kate Braid**
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CONTINUING:
**26 Stories, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis**
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STARTED:
**Melmoth Reconciled, by Honoré de Balzac**
**Four Plays, by Karel Čapek**
Finished: **Sisters of Sword and Shadow by Laura Bates**
Started: **The Girl on the 88 Bus by Freya Sampson**
Finished
**Nettle & Bone, by T Kingfisher**
A princess enlists a dust (grave) witch, a seemingly inept fairy godmother, a loyal dog she constructed from bones, and an exiled knight to rescue her older sister from an abusive marriage to the crown prince of a rival kingdom. I loved this dark fairytale. Awarded the 2023 Hugo for best novel.
Started
**Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives, by Siddharth Kara**
Expose of the toll taken on the people and environment of the Congo by the mining of cobolt, a metal essential to the manufacture of lithium batteries. Wow.