Category: Currently Reading
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Sci Fi in Spring
Three speculative books in the new season. Hoping to fix my reading habits just a bit. Maybe go back and finish some books I didn’t complete last month? Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may…
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Three books in progress
January was, in many ways, a bust, with plenty of sickness and bad weather. So of course I’ve started February in the middle of three books, unable to finish any of them. I adore all three. The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc by Ali Alizadeh: I’ve been looking forward to this for ages. It’s been…
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In Progress: Empty Theatre and Yara
One via ereader, the other via paperback. I’ve done very little except read the last couple days. It has been great fun, but also a bit frustrating — I’m making up for the exhaustion of the last few months at work, and I keep feeling like I should have more energy to do more day-to-day.…
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Historical Women I’ve DNFed
The Passion of New Eve: Angela Carter’s writing style is so overblown and hilarious, but ultimately this book was so dated it was hard to read. Fascinated though I may be by old feminist sci fi. I would love to read Gretchen Felker-Martin’s take on this one though. The Paying Guests: I’ve never read Sarah…
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In Progress: Orlando and Seventh Mansion
Currently reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf and The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer. Deeply moody and wonderful. Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry at…
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Strolling through a few books at once
I’ve had trouble reading books over the last few weeks, despite hanging around bookstores and book festivals. I’ve been reading articles and stories online like mad, trying to get my attention span back, and it’s kept me from scrolling too terribly. Though I will say, the latest issue of the Paris Review starts so terribly…
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So October begins, not with a bang but with… The Brits?
Reading postwar British literature again and I feel so much more in my element. Temps have barely cooled but the sky grays occasionally and evenings are already shorter. So I have a single bookstore purchase and a Kindle read to keep me company. I technically started these in September, but they’re still in progress. Soundly…
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Currently Reading: Stork Mountain and Henry and June
New to me: Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov. From the publisher: In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly broke contact with the family three years earlier. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a…
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In Progress: Kornél Esti
I’m absolutely in love with this book, which hits all the rollicking pre-war/interwar European farce I need. I’m about 2/3 of the way through (having read half in the pool two days ago, fantastic choice). This is a paperback I bought at a local book fair almost a decade ago. But my genuine obsession with…
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Currently Reading: Greek Lessons
I love Han Kang’s books. However, after a stint of reading in the mid-20th Century, I’m having trouble adjusting to a brand-new book. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it doesn’t. I’m just craving summer novels set in the 40s in Europe, so it’s hard to pivot. But my library hold came in. What else could I…
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