Again, honestly, I read more than I would have predicted with how busy I've been at work and with my doggo's surgery. She is done and a few days into her recovery, she's already standing on her leg a bit! There's a lot of care and work between now and projected full recovery but at least it feels like we're on our way. I've been coping with immersive reading when I can!
Books Read This Month
- Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell (would not recommend)
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline ( a fun ride, v reminiscent of the first)
- Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (see below)
- The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (book club read, really enjoyed, adding more Erdrich to my list)
- The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (potential book club read, historical fiction about an aboriginal girl taken from her family and two convict women transported from England to Australia, specifically Tasmania)
Favorite Book This Month
I mean, it was always going to be Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders, because I love everything she writes, but VGTD departs from her other novels and totally commits to the YA scifi adventure premise. It's like a beautiful mashup of YA (teenagers being awkward and falling in love and having anxiety) and Star Trek (diversity and technobabble and alien identity angst), and it was the perfect escapist read that I needed to get through this month (AND I know that she's writing a sequel, and I wish I could just read it right now.)
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