Too bad I didn't put a book on the floor there, so I could pretend I was reading, just hanging out. Next month!
LHC #153: "All of us with wings" by Michelle Ruiz Keil. eBook. Stressful read! It took me until Chapter 21 to realize that the chapter titles were songs. The problem was, a lot of the songs were longer than the chapters, which hurt momentum. I didn't understand what kind of governess Xochi could possibly be, as she spent basically no time with Pallas.
LHC #154: "Viral Modernism: the influenza pandemic and interwar literature" by Elizabeth Outka. I put a hold on this back in April of 2020, when pandemics were still new and interesting. It answered the question I wanted to know, which was how we forgot the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. Though this book made the flu seem even more horrifying than I'd thought.
"Wizard of the pigeons" by Megan Lindholm. I need to read things that aren't LHC sometimes! I got this for Christmas (because I asked for it). I've read plenty of Robin Hobb, though there's one book that's been sitting half-finished for at least ten years. This is shorter than that stuff, and very good.
LHC #155: "If you cold be mine" by Sara Farizan. I didn't find the sentences very artful; this is often the case with first person present tense. I loved Angry Grandpa and Disappointed Grandpa, what a wonderful way to describe them. Though I spent most of the book wishing Sahar would realize how horrid Nasreen is.
"In the Vanisher's Palace" by Aliette de Bodard. I was reading an old Locus that totally sold this to me. I didn't find Yen's homesickness entirely justified, she was too petulant for me. The dragons were really cool.