#bookl

So I've made a goal that December 31st I want to finish all of my currently reading, including my paused books.

I bought how to read literature by Thomas C. Foster (second hand) to hopefully offset the burden to my library just in case the ebook cost was a bit much for them.

I've got a lot of reading ahead and not a lot of time to do it. This includes the two classics and the book I'm treating as a literary fiction (the particular sadness of lemon cake). Wish me luck!

Finished

📱Hunting Sirens by Mary Mecham

📱Somewhere beyond the sea by TJ Klune

🎧 The last graduate by Naomi Novik

🎧 The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

🎧 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (third listen)

📱Letters to the rainbow bridge by Areeba Haseeb

📖The reformatory by Tananarive Due

Currently reading

🎧 We'll prescribe you a cat by Syou Ishida

🎧 Stop letting everything affect you by Daniel Chidiac

🎧 To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

📱Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

📱The particular sadness of lemon cake by Aimee Bender

Paused

On tyranny by Timothy Snyder

In the hand of the goddess by Tamora Pierce

Both of the above haven't been read since March/April. For the sake of my own stats and currently reading sanity. I'm finally officially putting them on pause.

No DNFs in October!

(Failed my challenge this month because of a trip to Prague and free shipping from a second-hand bookstore. Not sorry.)

New books

Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess

The Last Song of Penelope

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Isabel and the Rogue

The Moonlight Market

Babylonia

Palestine

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

Procitají andělé

Firebrand

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Chinese Cinderella

Secondhand books

The Book Eaters

The Marrow Thieves

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

The Land of Narnia

A Sting in the Tale

Running in the Family

Sacajawea

Crook Manifesto

The Samurai's Garden

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

Silas Bell, a young autistic transgender man living in the 1880s in England, wants to be a surgeon. Not a wife and mother. After a botched escape from a future devoted to a husband, he is diagnosed with “veil sickness,” a disease that causes violet eyed women to open the veil and communicate with the dead, an act that is illegal for women to do. 

        He is sent to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanatorium and engaged to a wealthy lord's son. But Braxton might not be what it seems. And Silas is the only one who can save the life of his new friends by uncovering the secrets of the school, all while fighting the voice in his head telling him to just do as he is told. For Silas, doing as he is told is not an option.

        Andrew Joseph White has crafted an incredible story. All of the characters are complex and every character has so much depth. White is able to balance the main character, Silas, with all aspects of his identity. They are all woven throughout the story in an authentic way that gives him personality outside of those defining traits while still acknowledging how important they are. It is one of the best representations of autism I have ever read.

       The setting and accuracy to historical detail makes the stakes seem real and send you to the time period. He uses the time period to bring light to the story he wants to tell. His use of imagery is terrific. 

        White is able to discuss so many important topics throughout the book, all of which apply in some way to our society today. He somehow is able to highlight and tackle each complex theme in one book while giving them each the space to be recognized for their individual importance.  

Currently Reading 💛

The Chronicals of Alice - Red Queen

Author: Christina Henry

Pages: 337

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Summary: The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. But the verdant fields are nothing but ash and hope is nowhere to be found. Still, Alice and Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter, a quest they will not forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mad White Queen and her goblin or into the realm of the twisted and cruel Black King. The pieces are set and the game has already begun. Each move brings Alice closer to her destiny. But, to win, she will need to harness her newfound abilities and ally herself with someone even more powerful—the mysterious and vengeful Red Queen

Spoiler

mortal engines by philip reeve

4/5

well this book was a surprise