Sophinisba Solis

Hello! I'm very tired but I've remembered that I've been meaning to post about reading on a Wednesday. Omg I used to do that like every week? Or most weeks?? And haven't done so since February 2014???

What I've read
In the first five months of 2019 I read 15 books for work plus these twelve for fun, my favorites starred:
Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother
Cristina Henríquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
Tana French, The Secret Place
Kiese Laymon, Long Division
Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly’s Guide to Your Next Crisis (this one was mostly a waste of time but on the bright side not very much time)
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter*
Tana French, The Witch Elm** (omg)
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties*
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere*
Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

Then Endgame happened an in the last five months I've read one short novel for work and, like, a lot of fanfiction about Tony Stark. /o\

What I'm reading
A couple days ago I checked out the novel Severance by Ling Ma from the library. I had not heard of it before but it came up on the list of relatively popular but available titles on Overdrive. I'm a little less than halfway through and I'm digging it. It's about a young woman who's one of a handful of people to survive a plague. I enjoy a good near-future apocalypse/dystopia and I also like the chapters that talk about her life before the plague, stuff about being a twenty-something in New York, about being a Chinese-American who travels to China on business, just stuff that's different from my experience but resonant and well written. I am anxious about where the post-plague plot will go.

What I'll read next
I actually forgot that I'd checked out Severance and I also checked out The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell on Overdrive. Maybe I will read that next. It looks to be about a bunch of generations of a family in Zambia and I wonder if it will be anything like Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, which I read a few years ago and loved.

ETA Also a lot of people on Twitter have been talking about Gideon the Ninth and I requested it from the library so I might get it that way eventually, or maybe give in and buy it.

It rained off and on all day yesterday and was pleasantly cool, a perfect day for sitting inside reading fic, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading piscaria's 50K Arthur/Merlin fic The Apple Grove.

( canon-era action/adventure/romance from from post-season 2, hurrah )

In other news, I am clinging stubbornly to this fandom. ( Avengers non-squee )