Books! On a Wednesday!

[sophinisba]

My last books post was just over six months ago ahh! I think I could manage it more often if I didn't try to do it on a Wednesday but I have that Dreamwidth nostalgia idk. But in that post I dared to dream that I would finish 50 books in 2021 and that did happen, I got to 54!

So then I set my goal for 2022 at 50 again but that's looking unlikely. I finished my 8th book of the year today, so I'm about on track for my normal total around 30.

Some books I especially enjoyed since my last books post were
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer


The book I finished today is Speak No Evil by Uzodinme Iweala, a novel about a gay Nigerian American teenager in Washington, DC. I was okay with this, it felt sort of like a certain kind of YA book what with being about a likable character written in first person and present tense, so I was just mildly annoyed that the author chose to make it randomly more difficult by for instance having a bunch of dialogue with different characters in one paragraph and with no quotation marks. Then in the last few chapters it got way heavier than I was prepared for, so that was not a good reading experience.

I'm also currently in the middle of Miracle Creek by Angie Kim, a legal-medical thriller about a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber. This is good page-turning stuff, lots of suspense, lots of dramatic reveals, and some interesting stuff about Korean and Korean American characters.

And I have started Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz, a beautiful memoir about falling in (gay) love around the same time her father was dying.

Some other books I have out from the library but haven't (yet) gotten into are
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler, and
Shelter by Jung Yun

I think I'll try starting The Disaster Tourist tonight because it's the only paperback so that will be nice to take with me on my trip this weekend.

Comments

[shirebound]

Hooray for books! I read (paper versions) constantly.

I gave my wilderness-loving niece Braiding Sweetgrass for Christmas.

[sophinisba]

Friends of ours give me a copy for my birthday last year, not knowing I'd checked it out of the library several times but had to return it before I finished it. It was really nice finishing off with the hard copy. B says she's going to read it next (before we give it away again).