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FYI folks the common factor in tonight’s ‘to-read’ additions is a found a list of bisexual books I hadn’t read

Twenty something pages in and I’m just... utterly swept by the language and affect

Another stab at the French audiobook- this time while on motorways

Technically DNF’d this, but I mark as read any non fiction I read 1+ chapter of.

Ooh, combination veiled homophobia and explicit mental health stigma. How dare cousin Cecil be less than a Manly Man!

... holy something, the racism. I remembered vaguely it being there, but had the impression it was much more benign than it actually is. So that's fun.

GODDAMNIT LYNCH. I saw that twist coming! And yet, by the time it came, you had me convinced _perhaps it wasn't a twist at all_.

2h30 - escape from the elves

starting again from the goblin encounter circa 2h in

starting again from the goblin encounter circa 2h in

Read chs 1-5

11.11.16 chapitre 1

... why did I just read a six chapter novella about a ghost clown???

Ordered Orbach's 'Fat is a feminist issue'. Expected feminist polemic on fat'shaming, and that may be what's within, but the book sells itself as 'self-help for permanent weight loss'. Given I do not actually feel the need to lose weight, is there any point reading it?

Reduced to ugly, snotty sobbing by AS Byatt. WTF

why yes, I did buy historical smut from a small gay press, and I have no regrets.

Loaded my Kobo with many books: two more Susan Cooper, one Gaiman, one Jeanette Wintersen. Along with 'The Angevin Empire' and the mad Ethelreda book for hard-copy reading,I'm set for flight!