Finished reading: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚

Started reading: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚

Finished reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚I ate this up. Compelling on a subcutaneous level.

Started reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚

Did not finish: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho📚 Not for me. I’ve gotten my fill of “embrace your destiny” allegories.

Started reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚

Finished reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse📚

What a fantastic novella. Beautifully rendered, dripping with character, and not a wasted page.

Currently reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse 📚

Finished reading: 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A. Reed 📚A wonderful book. If you have any interest in games or novels, read it now.

Read/played Photopia, by Adam Cadre. Beautiful and heartbreaking, an incredible achievement. Takes 1-2 hours. 📚👾

Currently reading: 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A. Reed 📚

Finished reading The Far Reaches Collection. Short stories by some heavy hitters. Really enjoyed it. Free with Amazon prime, cheap if not. 📚

Finished reading: Neuromancer by William Gibson 📚

It’s in some ways a retro future, others impossibly far off, and still others very present.

It’s so slathered in invented lingo that I found it hard to follow at points, but I was content to let the overall effect wash over me.

Currently reading: Neuromancer by William Gibson 📚Time to confirm my nerd card.

Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚What a ride. Avoided so many sci-fi cliches, and was genuinely compelling.

Stopped reading: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I was enjoying it, but since I’m traveling light I decided to not take any physical books with me. 📚

📚 Started reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovksy.

Started reading: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers. This one wasn’t on my radar at all, but a friend had an extra copy, and I’m intrigued! 📚

Finished reading: Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. What a beautiful, riveting, and emotional journey, all told through journals! 📚

Started reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I read Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell years ago and enjoyed it, so am really excited for this one. 📚

Finished reading: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Nihilistic, weird, brutal, and well observed. I really liked it. 📚

Started reading: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. One of those books I never read. This is one of those books I probably wouldn’t have appreciated when they were required reading, but am loving now. 📚

Finished reading: Sourcery: A Discworld Novel. As with any Discworld novel, its total escapist fun, with the problems of the real world layered in. Some of the probably-progressive-seeming-at-the-time characterizations of Conina could be left back in 1988, but overall really enjoyable. 📚

Started reading: Sourcery: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett.

Finished reading: Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith and illustrated by Boulet. An adaptation of Beowulf for children, and absolutely delightful.