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What I read: October 2024

LHC #270: "The Ruin of all Witches" by Malcolm Gaskill. eBook. It's a history of a witch hunt in 1646 in Springfield, MA. There are a lot of characters and sometimes I had a hard time keeping track of who was who. And is the case with trials, the same ground was sometimes covered over and over, hard to keep track of. Still, it was a good read and reminded me of something important I forgot in WWS. 

LHC #271: "Blood and guts in High School" by Kathy Acker. eBook with poorly reproduced graphics. Very strange and short. I wonder if this is what Gemma Files' notebooks are like? It was nice to get to practice my Farsi. 

LHC #272: "The Next Supper" by Corey Mintz. Hard copy because that's what was available. Published in 2021, it's very much a still in the pandemic book. 3+ years later, that sometimes felt a bit weird, but there was a lot of interesting information in here, and food has always been a volatile industry so I suppose whenever he wrote it, it would still be skeet shooting. 

LHC #273: "There are no accidents" by Jessie Singer. eBook. I liked the second half better than the first. 

LHC #274: "The Book Eaters" by Sunyi Dean. Audiobook, read by Katie Erich. Loved, loved, loved this. The in-world details that just go unspoken are delightful. Like for example, the families all live in these ridiculous gothic houses that will be drafty as all get-out, but it doesn't bother them because book eaters don't notice the cold. The voice that read this to me was amazing. 

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