Yesterday, I read all the way through Grant Morrison’ The Multiversity. It was a reread for me, but it had been a couple years.
Tonight, I started Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest. It’s a YA book that’s just recently been released and I’m looking forward to reading more. It’s about a senior in high school who is trying to both figure out how to deal with upcoming college, a boy she has a crush on, and the lack of working accommodations for her wheelchair. She has cerebal palsy, which adds a new layer of difficulty to all of the above. I’m interested to see if the main character finds her voice.
Finished Every Day. It was enjoyable and interesting, but focused mainly on the romance part, and I really wanted to hear more about the “new body every day” part. Things don’t get solved in the end, but I think the story finished as well as it could have. I looked for the sequel, but it turns out to be a retelling of the same events from a different point of view, so I’ll just leave it at that.
Finished Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational, & Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball, by Tim Hagerty, which I enjoyed. My favorite was the time an engineer in a train passing a stadium caught a foul ball.
Now I’m reading Freewater, by Amina Luqman-Dawson. It’s this year’s Newbery Award winner.
Finished Bea Wolf this evening. Quick and wonderful. Not sure which one will be up next, just that it will be with me at Firestone tomorrow while I wait on work for my van.
I finished The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark last night. It’s a great thriller that was hard to put down. The general premise is that ten years ago, a journalist discovers a person who recently left town without a trace was a con-woman. In present day, the con-woman is back in town, and the journalist tries to get close to the con-woman to figure out what she’s up to. The bulk of the book is both women trying to (a) deliver a convincing cover story to the other person about who they are and what they’re trying to accomplish, and (b) try to find out all they can about the other person and their true agenda while concealing what they actually know and sticking to the cover story.
Started today on The Ferryman by Justin Cronin. If you’ve seen Logan’s Run, it’s the same sort of idea: perfect society with people who have built-in energy meters, and when the meter runs low, they go to a special island to be renewed. Voluntarily? Well…
I may have read Logan’s Run ages ago, I know I saw the movie, but honestly all I remember about it is Michael York’s chiseled jawline and how much 14-15 year old me wanted to gnaw on it.
I read Ay, Mija! by Christine Suggs while waiting for my van to get fixed. I love graphics because of how quick they are to read, especially when I’m waiting for an appointment or something like that. My heart-niece recommended it to me (she’s in the business so knows about all the good YA/Graphics/Etc coming out) and has another recommendation that’s coming out in a couple months time.
As per usual, not sure what the next read is going to be. I’ve got a lot of library books still on my shelves…
Just started Miskatonic by Mark Sable and Giorgio Pontrelli, a Lovecraftian graphic novel set in the early 1920s. The Bureau of Investigation (the FBI’s predecessor) under a young J. Edgar Hoover is looking into odd goings-on in the decaying Massachusetts coastal town of Innsmouth. The protagonist is one of the few female BI special agents at the time. I like it so far.
Just picked up Tommy Orange’s There There - a novel about identity, rather a novel that problematizes identity. More specifically, it focuses on what it means to be Native in the US today. Inevitably, therefore, it’s also an exploration of what it means to be modern and urban, which then becomes a critical exploration of what it means to a modern, urban Native. Extremely interesting book!
Meh, I was expecting it to be scarier and more gripping. It wasn’t. I was pretty disappointed. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this. Kind of like if they went to Narnia…then returned after 60% of the book and never went back. What?
