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It is profoundly distressing to read this and see my darkest and shadowy feelings suddenly put into words. And then a strange sense of shame, because if so many people feel this way, why do I find it so HARD. Anyway. Might take a while to get through because every few pages all I want to do is cry.

This is indeed sorrowful in the sense that every definition is an ache. And maybe I'm too sad already. But also beautiful so I will press on in small doses.


Also I am building my 2025 reading list and if you have any great books with titles that start with J or K...

There are author gaps too but I can't remember right now.

I have to admit, I despaired of ever finishing this and skipped the whole section of essays on religion due to lack of interest in that particular debate. I think I can get to the end now, and I will still call it done. This book is a monster.

Everyone needs a romantasy chaser after books about the plague.

A re-read for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

Listening to the audiobook. Thoughtful and soothing, so far.

David Attenborough is ninety nine years old and still writing books! May I find such passion.

Or read a book...

I am not sure this author has ever conversed with a human being.

I gave myself an alphabet challenge for authors first names. Q is a challenge. Also I am doing the library's adult reading club and one of the squares is read a book you think you'll hate and...well it isn't my genre of choice so I am interpreting this as eligible.

Started this one as another migraine audiobook, but was a bit more with-it this time. This is *funny* and I am looking forward to seeing where it goes.

Not 100% sure i should count this one as I dozed through much of the audio book while trying to kill a migraine.

An odd sort of a comfort book. But I need the gentle bleakness.

Needed a chaser

This is not as light as I wanted it to be, and there is something slightly alienating about the writing.

This is very good and as thoughtful and full of grace as you'd expect Sen. Sinclair's writing to be.

But reading it at the same time as Whitehead's Underground Railway is a lot of heavy all at once.

I mean ... it's very good but maybe not for my anxiety. I'll try and finish it during the day tomorrow.

This is very charming and much better for bedtime than Jeff Vandermeer.

I am struggling with this one. Put it down to pick up some books with due dates and haven't yet felt like picking it up again.

I know you are all probably tired of me railing about editors, but truly, does no one know that words mean things? Advisory and Adversary have nothing in common but a few letters.

I am not sure of the writing in general and may have to ditch, which would be a shame because there are not many books with titles starting with Q.

Nadya!

There are some great stories in here but the collection is made with the inclusion of Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester's Time Machine, which is absolutely... chef's kiss.

I am not sure a book partly about the development of nuclear bombs is entirely what I need right now. It's interesting reading though.

I am not sure what to think of Michael Moorcock.

Who came up with calling the experimental drug Memorex?

BRB, need to make a mixtape.

Omg. I just laughed right out loud.

The library took back the ebook before I could finish it so I guess I'll have to wait til I come back to the top of the holds list.

Honestly I was struggling a little to stay engaged with it. I really enjoy experimental literature on the whole, so I don't think that was it, but it felt a bit laboured, I guess. And maybe like I don't know enough Korean history.

It's amazing how deftly and quickly Leckie can throw you into a world so simultaneously familiar and completely Alien.

Reread for book club