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What I read: July 2024

I'm not a whiner; that's a lot of bruise
"Don't sleep, there are snakes" by Daniel Everett. Recommended to me by a translator I work with, someone gave it to me for Christmas. I found I didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for some of Daniel's situations, pretty much for the reason he expected. 

LHC #256: "The Princess Will Save You" by Sarah Henning. eBook. I bet I put it on my list because it's a gender-swapped princess bride complete with pirates. What's to go wrong with that? I found the unrelenting awesome-genius-righteousness of the good guys and the endless stupid-shallow idiocy of the bad guys tedious after a while but it wasn't terrible. The plot was good, just sometimes the writing was not very subtle. 

LHC #257: "The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare" by G.K. Chesterton. eBook. It was on my list because of Neil Gaiman. Quick read, very fun. Not many women! 

LHC #258: "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro. Audio book because I had the eBook on hold forever and then I found the audio was going to be "soon" when the eBook still had 10 weeks wait, and I needed something to listen to while I worked on that interminable Fair Isle sweater. The wait was like 3 hours maybe. It was a little depressing but definitely good. 

LHC #259: "The Four Profound Weaves" by R.B. Lemberg. eBook. It was as good as the reviews said and exactly what I wanted it to be. 

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