- by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Started 2019/01/02
- Finished 2019/01/08
- Is this YA? Does it matter? I enjoyed this, and I like that it didn’t end in an easy cliché.
- by Helen Oyeyemi
- Started 2019/07/30
- Finished 2020/01/10
- I understood/enjoyed maybe half of the stories in here? I’m not sure I get Helen Oyeyemi.
- by Homer, trans. by Emily Wilson
- Started 2019/12/30
- Finished 2020/01/12
- This moves. I enjoyed the introduction and translation notes a lot. The translation itself is very readable, occasionally surprising in its modernity (vs the expected stuffiness). Makes me want to re-read Circe.
- by Chanel Miller
- Started 2020/01/10
- Finished 2020/01/15
- by Yoko Ogawa
- Started 2020/01/12
- Finished 2020/01/27
- by Dan Slott, Sara Pichelli, Skottie Young, and Simone Bianchi
- Started 2020/01/25
- Finished 2020/01/26
- by Wilda C. Gafney
- Started 2020/01/27
- Finished 2020/03/14
- by William Gibson
- Started 2020/02/01
- Finished 2020/02/02
- by N. K. Jemisin
- Started 2020/02/03
- Finished 2020/02/08
- by Noelle Stevenson
- Started 2020/02/11
- Finished 2020/02/11
- by Karen Thompson Walker
- Started 2020/02/14
- Finished 2020/02/15
- by Miranda Popkey
- Started 2020/02/16
- Finished 2020/02/16
- by Margaret Atwood
- Started 2020/02/17
- Finished 2020/02/19
- by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Started 2020/02/20
- Finished 2020/02/23
- Two different books mashed into one, made me want to re-read Manhattan Beach
- by Tommy Orange
- Started 2020/02/24
- Finished 2020/02/29
- Oof. Such poetic language. A sense of dread hanging over everything. The ending is both inevitable and yet incomprehensible.
- by James Robinson, Carlo Pagaluyan, Sergio Davila, and Emanuela Lupacchino
- Started 2020/03/01
- Finished 2020/03/01
- by Amy Bonnaffons
- Started 2020/03/01
- Finished 2020/03/02
- The first half is great. Not so sure about the second one.
- by Cathy Park Hong
- Started 2020/03/03
- Finished 2020/03/04
- Messed me up, in the best way.
- by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Started 2020/03/07
- Finished 2020/03/13
- by Mairghread Scott and Paul Pelettier
- Started 2020/03/07
- Finished 2020/03/13
- by Nicola Yoon
- Started 2020/03/14
- Finished 2020/03/16
- by Hilary Mantel
- Started 2020/03/17
- Finished 2020/04/22
- Oof. This took me a lot longer to read than I anticipated. Probably because this one is basically the story of Cromwell’s demise. So much dread, and the knowledge that he’s going to miss the signs that lead to his fall from grace. Also, reading this during a time of incredible job insecurity was making me paranoid about my own job.
- by Michael Zapata
- Started 2020/03/22
- Finished 2020/04/25
- I put this aside for a long while to read The Mirror and the Light, but I really liked the meditations on family, memory, and splashes of scifi musings
- by N. K. Jemisin
- Started 2020/03/29
- Finished 2020/04/10
- As a former resident of both Jersey City and Brooklyn, I’m enjoyed this. It did feel like a weird choice to cut away from the action during one of the climactic events, with Manhattan manifesting a construct (King Kong).
- by Chris Colfer
- Started 2020/03/30
- Finished 2020/05/07
- by James Robinson and Stephen Segovia
- Started 2020/04/04
- Finished 2020/04/05
- by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Leinil Francis Yu
- Started 2020/04/05
- Finished 2020/04/06
- by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, and Leonardo Manco
- Started 2020/04/20
- Finished 2020/04/21
- by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Laraz, R.B. Silva, and Marte Gracia
- Started 2020/04/12
- Finished 2020/04/13
- by Jenny Offill
- Started 2020/04/25
- Finished 2020/04/26
- So bleak, so funny. Like Dept. of Speculation, there are moments that made me laugh out loud, and passages that made me stop in my tracks to appreciate the artistry in such spare, short prose.
- by Emily St. John Mandel
- Started 2020/04/27
- Finished 2020/04/29
- by Ann Patchett
- Started 2020/05/01
- Finished 2020/05/03
- by Madeleine L’Engle
- Started 2020/05/05
- Finished 2020/06/27
- by Deepa Anappara
- Started 2020/05/08
- Finished 2020/05/10
- I thought this would be, like, a twee Wes Anderson story set in the slums of India. But it didn’t shy away from grim reality — it somehow found a way to talk about childhood and how we try to do the right thing, but still come up against bigger structural problems than we can solve
- by Lily King
- Started 2020/05/11
- Finished 2020/05/12
- This one was a fast read, much like her last book Euphoria.
- by Ben Lerner
- Started 2020/05/12
- Finished 2020/05/14
- I really didn’t have any interest in reading this, mostly because of how it was described to me: a look at raising a young white man in the Midwest, grappling with toxic masculinity, and psychotherapy, and language, etc. etc. But we had borrowed the book from my father-in-law, and we were to send it on to my sister-in-law when we were done. So I read it. It’s … good, but there were times reading it when I was gripped in anxiety and rage.
- by Richard Rohr
- Started 2020/05/15
- Finished 2020/05/16
- I’ve spent the last several years untangling the legacy of my fundamentalist upbringing; this book resonated a lot with what I still find to be true, and points a way forward to a more integrated faith.
- by Tamsyn Muir
- Started 2020/05/16
- Finished 2020/05/18
- I … don’t really know what I read? It’s like Clue, mixed with some stock galactic empire tropes (different houses, each with a different speciality, natch), plus the throne room scene from The Last Jedi, a little bit of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, directed by Guillermo del Toro in Hellboy mode? And it somehow works?
- by Jane Austen
- Started 2020/05/18
- Finished 2020/05/20
- by Bernardine Evaristo
- Started 2020/05/21
- Finished 2020/05/22
- So good. Shouldn’t have had to share the Booker Prize with The Testaments.
- by Alexandra Chang
- Started 2020/05/22
- Finished 2020/05/23
- by Jane Austen
- Started 2020/05/23
- Finished 2020/06 /03
- Fascinating to see Austen identify how women are constrained within their gender role but also give Elizabeth every wish fulfillment fantasy.
- by Kevin Wilson
- Started 2020/05/24
- Finished 2020/05/24
- More like a novella? There’s so much going on here, dealing with anger/shame and abuse.
- by Robin Hobb
- Started 2020/05/25
- Finished 2020/05/31
- It felt nice to be back into the fantasy world, and have that “what’s going on in this universe” feeling. Some unintentional parallels to Vizzini from The Princess Bride with the poison subplots.
- by Isabel Allende
- Started 2020/06/03
- Finished 2020/06/05
- Prose didn’t grab me, not sure if it’s due to the translation
- by Mieko Kawakami
- Started 2020/06/06
- Finished 2020/06/12
- by Anna Burns
- Started 2020/06/13
- Finished 2020/06/28
- by Charles Yu
- Started 2020/06/14
- Finished 2020/06/21
- by Ellen Raskin
- Started 2020/06/25
- Finished 2020/06/27
- by Alex S. Vitale
- Started 2020/06/28
- by Brit Bennett
- Started 2020/06/28
- Finished 2020/07/03
- by Jane Austen
- Started 2020/07/04
- Finished 2020/07/06