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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

Uzodinme Iweala, Angie Kim, Kathryn Schulz, etc )

Books!

Jul. 21st, 2021 08:59 pm
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Hello, Dreamwidth, it's been three weeks since my last books post and I have finished four more books, bringing me up to 20 for the year. Whoo! One of those books was for work but I will tell you about the other three: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha, The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, and How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith.

books! )
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I read three good nonfiction books by Black American men in the last few weeks. Kiese Laymon, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, plus other current reading )
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I have again gone seven weeks since my last book post but am managing to post on a Wednesday! I have finished just three books since then, one I won't talk about and also Educated by Tara Westover which was good and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee which was GREAT.

Books I have read parts of but may not finish include Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford, The Mothers by Brit Bennett, and an audiobook of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.

And now, a cut tag: Read more... )

Books!

Jan. 27th, 2021 10:24 pm
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My last books post was, I guess, seven weeks ago! Today has not been a great day but I like posting about books on Wednesdays for old times' sake! Claudia Hernández, Rumaan Alam, Emma Donoghue, Brit Bennett, Min Jin Lee, Tara Westover )

Next on my list are Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford and an audiobook of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, which I've read twice, but both times were more than 20 years ago. o_0

Work just got busy again though so we'll see how that goes. It was nice to have a little more time to read this last month plus, even though my ability to concentrate is still garbage.

Books!

Dec. 2nd, 2020 10:12 pm
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It's a Wednesday and I've been less busy at work this past week! I have been reading books!

Read more... )

I also checked out but haven't yet started reading Crooked Hallelujah by the Cherokee writer Kelli Jo Ford, which I found out about through the delightful NPR Book Concierge, which came out yesterday.
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What I've read


I finished reading Severance by Ling Ma and it was really good!

I also went back to a book that I'd 90% of in August and finished it off, but with a lot of confusion because I'd forgotten so much in the meantime. It's okay, I'll read it again soon.

What I'm reading


I started reading The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell but I'm not super into it and it turns out to be super long, so I probably won't keep going with that. Last night I went back to reading fanfic instead and that was nice.

What I'll read next


I do not know, I'm not too excited about anything on my Kindle at the moment.
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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.
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[personal profile] via_ostiense asked me about my favorite flavor of ice cream. If I had to choose one I'd probably say coffee, but I also appreciate strawberry, cookies and cream, and some other flavors. I used to go to Dairy Queen and get mud pie Blizzards, or peanut butter cup ones, those are awesome. But there aren't a lot of Dairy Queens near where I live now and I guess I haven't missed it much. Frozen yogurt is bigger around here and I've always thought fro-yo tasted kind of weird.

I'm not really into ice cream in general these days. I used to buy cartons and then it would stay in the freezer for months and months and get gross. B buys it and I'll have a little dish from time to time. I also used to really like gelato from certain fancy gelato places, but on the other hand never really got excited about the fancy local ice cream places that B and other friends of mine love. One of the flavors my friends get excited about is salted caramel and I can't stand that stuff, ugh.

And since it's a Wednesday let's do a quick reading meme. I finished Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, continued to like but not love it. I read a pretty good chunk of Purple Hibiscus this week and just a little bit of Claire of the Sea Light, still haven't really gotten into that one. Then last night the ebook of Gillian Flynn's Dark Places became available through my library, so I expect to be reading that and nothing else for the next few days. Right now I'm about a quarter of the way through and pretty well engrossed, though so far I'm not enjoying it nearly as much as I did Gone Girl, which kinda ate up my life when I read it last year.

Oh, and I skimmed a library book called 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget which I'm pretty sure is just a compilation of blog posts from Wise Bread. It's pretty repetitive and silly but, you know, nice for glancing through, lots of lists of little tips for saving money on groceries, gifts, etc.

books

Dec. 8th, 2013 04:23 pm
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[personal profile] veleda_k asked me to talk about a book that influence me. I'm finding this hard! I can think of a lot of books that made a big impression on me at the time that I read them but seeing the influence later is harder.

books )

Boo Sunday afternoon! As I explained the other day, Sunday afternoons and evenings are when I stress and get sad about not being ready for Monday. Something I forgot to say in that post is that B watches football on Sunday afternoons and evenings and yells at the TV, and it makes Sundays worse for me.

Oh well, feels good to get caught up on a meme at least!

Happy birthday, [personal profile] baranduin! I miss you and hope you are having a good day. Thank you for making this icon and for being so smart and honest and kind.
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I hadn't read any fic in ages, but I had some insomnia Friday night and went looking around the AO3 and ended up with a really nice long X-Men WIP called Pantheon by [archiveofourown.org profile] Yahtzee. It's a Roman slave AU mainly an Erik/Charles love story but also featuring Logan and Rogue and Emma and some other people. At the time I was reading over the weekend it was at four out of eleven chapters but the author just posted another one tonight, so it's now up to just under 50K and I have more achy sad fic to read while curling up with my cat and ignoring my other responsibilities tonight.

I also started another Erik/Charles fic, it's like one of us woke up by [personal profile] kaydeefalls the other day. It's a long canon-divergent AU and all Charles POV (Charles is my favorite) with peril and feelings and I'm enjoying that one a lot too.

I never really got into this fandom but now I feel all nostalgic for it. :) I guess there's another movie coming out next year and ... I can't even really say I'm looking forward to it because I kind of expect there to be a lot of disability fail along with the same kind of gross sexism and racism we saw in XMFC. But also James McAvoy's beautiful face! Feelings about found family and community! Erik and Charles and their doomed love! <3 <3

I've only read a few more pages of those novels I mentioned last week, Flight Behavior and Purple Hibiscus. Man, life is different when you're not traveling.

In other news, I am happy with my Festivids assignment. B suggested a song that I like a lot and we're planning on rewatching the source together soon. I have a bunch of ideas for treats I could make but I think making my official assignment plus one treat is a good goal to aim for (you know, after not making any vids all year).

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