LHC #236: "The animals in that country" by Laura Jean McKay. I thought I knew what I was getting into with this, but I did not. Wow. It's like a pandemic addiction memoir but with talking Australian animals who are not as insightful as we'd like.
"The Power" by Naomi Alderman. I watched the TV show (season 1? will there be another?) last fall. The TV show was amazing, except the end didn't quite work for me. Alex went to a signing with the author, and I got this. I quite enjoyed it, the ending was much more satisfying.
LHC #236: "Armistice" by Lara Elena Donnelly. Audiobook. I found MRK's reading sort of a downer, wondering if that was on purpose. Or too wistful maybe. Also, Makricosta sounds really old as read, I went looking for fan art to get a better sense. I found surprisingly little, maybe I don't know how to search anymore.
LHC #237: "The Marigold" by Andrew Sullivan. Near future horror set in Toronto. Needed more past perfect tense. Not sure how enjoyable it would be for a non-Toronto area person, a lot of in jokes. It does seem appropriate that the Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council would fund a book about condo towers where the raccoons eventually win.
LHC #238: "The Iron Dragon's Daughter" by Michael Swanwick. I'll be honest, I was guessing at this point, but I read his blog, I've never read one of his books, it makes sense I would put one on my list? Plus, everything I was more sure about had a waitlist and this did not, so here we are. I loved the language, the juxtapositions of faerie and 90's tech.
On Feb 25, joyous of all days, I was able to look at my holds list again. #s 232, 234, 237 and 238 were not on it! I'm leaving them anyway. I did manage to read 10 books off that list in the four months it was down.
LHC #239: "A Deadly Education" by Naomi Novik. In juxtaposition to "Fourth Wing," I'd describe this as "grumpy times at well thought-out magic school." After the first few pages where I had to get used to the voice, I loved this book. Will totally read the sequels.