Recent reading
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luzulaFarlig midsommar by Tove Jansson [Moominsummer Madness]
Oh, I have hearts in my eyes now. ♥ If you've never read these books, you really should! I found myself laughing out loud on the bus at this one. I just love the situations that arise and the characters' responses to them; it's all so perfectly delightful and it also makes you think. And the illustrations are great.
Syrien: revolutionen, makten och människorna edited by Per Björklund [Syria: the Revolution, the Power and the People]
A collection of essays about the civil war in Syria. Quite interesting! But not available in English.
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
A charming regency romance with added magic. Recommended if you're in the mood for something easy and entertaining. It was interesting how the magic was portrayed as a feminine accomplishment, like sketching and piano playing.
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (original in Spanish, read in English)
Book-club-at-work has started up again. This one's a novella about an aging man fighting a futile battle against the state bureaucracy. It was...so-so, I guess? I don't know why I wasn't that gripped by it.
Oh, I have hearts in my eyes now. ♥ If you've never read these books, you really should! I found myself laughing out loud on the bus at this one. I just love the situations that arise and the characters' responses to them; it's all so perfectly delightful and it also makes you think. And the illustrations are great.
Syrien: revolutionen, makten och människorna edited by Per Björklund [Syria: the Revolution, the Power and the People]
A collection of essays about the civil war in Syria. Quite interesting! But not available in English.
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
A charming regency romance with added magic. Recommended if you're in the mood for something easy and entertaining. It was interesting how the magic was portrayed as a feminine accomplishment, like sketching and piano playing.
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (original in Spanish, read in English)
Book-club-at-work has started up again. This one's a novella about an aging man fighting a futile battle against the state bureaucracy. It was...so-so, I guess? I don't know why I wasn't that gripped by it.
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Date: 2015-08-25 01:16 am (UTC)And then, I read a good rec about Fantasy YA featuring female characters and this book was somewhere in the top 5. I think I'm going to move up my list. Hopefully, I'll get to it by October. ;)
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Date: 2015-08-25 09:12 am (UTC)Ha ha, yeah, I have a super-long list, too. Do you actually follow the order of your list when you pick stuff to read? I mostly pick stuff at random according to what I feel like at the moment.
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Date: 2015-08-26 03:14 am (UTC)LOL LOL LOL, I confused this book's title with another one. *facepalms* FWIW, I do have this book in my "let's see if I can read it before the year is over" TBR. ;)
Do you actually follow the order of your list when you pick stuff to read?
Nope. As it happens, my TBR is split into 5 groups: 20 are in my google books, about 60 of them are in the nook app, there are 95 in the Scribd queue, 120 or so are under the Aldiko app, and the remaining ~200 are in my external HD.
I'm a mood reader so I tend to flip through my TBRs until I find something that pings me. Scribd's the easiest since I use that service for audiobooks mostly (which I download to my phone). I know it looks chaotic, but having different TBRs keeps me from getting bored.
Oh, and I've gotten into the habit of keeping a spreadsheet so that I know what I've read (even if I haven't finished it). I know I can do this through Calibre, but I've found myself using that program less and less. For one thing, it's very rare that I have to convert fic from whatever format to epub (I dl all of it from AO3). Also, I can update my spreadsheet from my phone or tablet. *hands*