"Katabasis" by R.F. Kuang. Hard copy, gift from the boy. Dark academia, and when I read the first chapter I was like "A walk into hell, how is she going to sustain that for 500+ pages?" but it was fine. Loved it. It seemed like a couple of times a metaphor was reused or a phrase repeated on the same page, not sure if that was intentional? It lost its way for a while, I thought, about 80% in, but it ended really well.
"Finding Me" by Viola Davis. eBook. For office book club. She sure doesn't like Portuguese people. Reminded me of my dad that way. I didn't expect all the urine. I might not have been the right audience for this as I've never seen anything she's in, but the part where she was complaining about how hard telemarketing is, I was wondering if anyone was the right audience.
LHC #300: "A Thousand Recipes for Revenge" by Beth Cato. Hard copy. I sort of wished the story could have worked without having to go all "fairyland exists" and then "children of gods" but it was good nevertheless. And I guess that's where she was always going so whatever. Not the book I would have written maybe, but I put the sequel on my list.
LHC #301: "Shielded: How the Police became Untouchable" by Joanna C. Schwartz. Hard copy. Really interesting read from just a couple of years ago, definitely not anti-cop, but about how the court system has perpetuated some really bad shit that might be more about our values as a society than we really want to admit. And now that there is ICE as well, maybe the system needs to rethink some things.
LHC #302: "The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories" by Justin C. Key. eBook. These were good.
LHC" #303: "The Black Tulip" by Alexandre Dumas. Audiobook while I drove from Windsor and back. I feel like I read a detailed synopsis of this before. Definitely a portrait of someone who is supremely neuroatypical. Who else could obsess about tulips for so long?