LHC #80: "All Systems Red" by Martha Wells. Such voice! I devoured it and requested the next one in the series.
LHC #81: "On Immunity: An Innoculation" by Eula Biss. Recommended by someone in my karate class, possibly when I mentioned my obsession with pandemics and vaccine resistance etc. like a year and a half ago. One thing that drives me a little bit mad when reading eBooks is they make so little effort to link the endnotes to the relevant block of text. Hyperlinks are so easy! And I know it's possible. That Jared Diamond eBook I read last month had hyperlinks in the intro, if not in the rest of the book. Though that one could have had links to and from the photos too.
"The Red Threads of Fortune" by JY Neon Yang. A sequel! Wow these characters are wonderfully lacking in jealousy. I appreciated the portrayal of Mokoya's emotional mindset.
LHC # 82: "The Language of the Third Reich: LTI Lingua Tertii Imperii: a philologist's notebook" by Victor Kemperer, translated by Martin Brady. An actual physical library book, for the first time since March! It was so over-packaged, and quite a production to pick up. For something on such a grim topic, this book was not a bad read!
LHC #83: "Who was Changed and who was Dead" by Barbara Comyns. Back to Overdrive. This was very fun and made me want to write something head-hoppingly omniscient.
LHC #84: "The Luminous Heart of Jonah S." by Gina B. Nahai. I might not have been the target audience. The characters didn't really feel like characters, more like collections of traits. Sometimes when I can't remember why I requested something I'll go to Amazon and read the reviews. My favorite said none of the characters were likeable and she couldn't really say why anyone would want to read this book, but the writing was fine. Sums it up!
LHC #81: "On Immunity: An Innoculation" by Eula Biss. Recommended by someone in my karate class, possibly when I mentioned my obsession with pandemics and vaccine resistance etc. like a year and a half ago. One thing that drives me a little bit mad when reading eBooks is they make so little effort to link the endnotes to the relevant block of text. Hyperlinks are so easy! And I know it's possible. That Jared Diamond eBook I read last month had hyperlinks in the intro, if not in the rest of the book. Though that one could have had links to and from the photos too.
"The Red Threads of Fortune" by JY Neon Yang. A sequel! Wow these characters are wonderfully lacking in jealousy. I appreciated the portrayal of Mokoya's emotional mindset.
LHC # 82: "The Language of the Third Reich: LTI Lingua Tertii Imperii: a philologist's notebook" by Victor Kemperer, translated by Martin Brady. An actual physical library book, for the first time since March! It was so over-packaged, and quite a production to pick up. For something on such a grim topic, this book was not a bad read!
LHC #83: "Who was Changed and who was Dead" by Barbara Comyns. Back to Overdrive. This was very fun and made me want to write something head-hoppingly omniscient.
LHC #84: "The Luminous Heart of Jonah S." by Gina B. Nahai. I might not have been the target audience. The characters didn't really feel like characters, more like collections of traits. Sometimes when I can't remember why I requested something I'll go to Amazon and read the reviews. My favorite said none of the characters were likeable and she couldn't really say why anyone would want to read this book, but the writing was fine. Sums it up!
"Books of Blood Vol 1" by Clive Barker. Ferrett recommended it on Twitter. My favorite was the one about the theatre troupe, I think, or the one about the pig...