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What I Read: September 2017



I was sitting listening to music and knitting last night, and I realized I missed having Infinite Jest to read. WTF! I was suddenly sad because I’ll never know more about the Incandenza family. I was working on Ocracoke, of course, the sweater that always makes me cry when I work on it. What is with this depressing sweater!



“The Girl with all the Gifts” by MR Carey. My sister gave it to me for Christmas, saying she’d started it, but it was too much squick for her, though it would be fine for me. Apparently it’s been made into a movie, which knowing me I’ll never see. The story moved along really fast, which made me less notice the occasional thing about the world that I thought didn’t quite make sense, but the characters were absolutely fantastic. I am forcing this book on my reading group (a.k.a., my family).



“Cirque du Freak” by Darren Shan. I think I listened to a podcast that had him in it, or some otherwise thing, maybe an interview or a chat. This would have been last year, probably in November. I’d set this to active, then accidentally wound up with Infinite Jest, then set it to Inactive again because there was no way another book was going to happen. Anyway, this was good, it moved right along and I could barely put it down. But there’s something weird about the default middle-grade voice. It’s like the author comes through a little too much and can’t help moralizing.



“Akira volume 2” by Katsuhiro Otomo. So I guess I’ll be reading six of these. 

I'm kind of giddy that I've actually read a book already by this year's Nobel Prize for Literature winner! Go me! 
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