pickI love this series. The pieces are starting to fall together. The quiet moments between Kore and Hades are adorable.
I'm in full cozy mode tonight. The perfect way to wind down into the weekend.
pickI love this series. The pieces are starting to fall together. The quiet moments between Kore and Hades are adorable.
I'm in full cozy mode tonight. The perfect way to wind down into the weekend.
pick#10BeforeTheEnd I have been wanting to read this for so long, and I think I did the book a disservice by reading it now. It is pretty grim (focusing on the founding of Liberia, involving a lot of slavery talk). But it is also magical, the characters are vivid and the writing is crisp and the storytelling well done. It just didn't land well with me in my state of mind, I still recommend it.
On another note isn't the table runner I got beautiful?
pickThis was the second creepy house book I read in October! It wasn‘t really YA but read like it—I‘m not sure how I feel about that, but I did really enjoy the book. I liked the characters and was fascinated with piecing together the various clues about the history of the house and the Starling family. And I loved the role that legends and storytelling and dreams played in the plot. However, there were a few writing quirks that got on my nerves. ⤵️
I found this very cool offering in a local free puzzle library (!!!) and did most of it while I listened to FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS. Alas, it‘s the first Cherie Dimaline novel I‘ve disliked. It offers up some intriguing threads, but the story as a whole fails to satisfying and the prose is so performatively purple that it shut me out of the emotions instead of placing me inside them. Sigh. #audiopuzzling
Back home and I made it to pg 709 so I‘m over the hump but still have plenty of pages left 👀🙌🏽
Days 6 & 7 #36by36 #Readathon
Got a little over four hours of reading done over the past two days. Almost finished Odd Thomas.
pickThe best book I've read all year. A second Book of Genesis cobbled together from scraps of Bible verse, western mythology, parables, art history, and pop culture left over after a nuclear holocaust sent human civilization back to the Stone Age some 2,400 years in the past. Profound, moving, funny, and utterly unique. I imagine I'll be re-reading this for years to come.
