New book posts:
- Complete 2019 TBR
- Review: Girl mans up by M E Girard (ya, queer protagonist)
- Why audiobooks are great (I changed my mind) and some recommendations
- Harry Potter book tag
- Quote of the week #18
- Movie and Tv adaptions I’m terrified of (part 1)
Other books I’ve been reading:
- Soft magic by Upile Chisala (review to come)
- Women in science by Rachel Ignotofsky (review to come)
- Unngå øyekontakt av Nora Aschim (norwegian poetry)
- Gull i grusen av Rebecca Kjelland (norwegian poetry)
- Andvake av Jon Fosse (norwegian)
Added to TBR:
Spoiler alert – it’s a lot.
- The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabrina Khan (ya, new release)
- These witches don’t burn by Isabel Sterling (ya, new release, lgbt)
- Fence by C. S. Pacat (graphic novel, lgbt)
- Spin the dawn by Elizabeth Lim (new release, fantasy)
- A separate peace by John Knowles
- The lessons by Naoimi Alderman
- Special topics in calmity physics by Marisha Pessl
- Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox (biography)
- The reheasal by Eleanor Catton
- Obsessive genius about Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith (biography)
- Wicked lovely by Melissa Marr
- Severance by Ling Ma (sci-fi)
- So far so good by Ursula Le Guin
- Plastic by Doug Wagner (graphic novel)
- The master algorithm by Pedro Domingos (science)
- Call down the hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
- Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (fantasy)
- The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Illness as metahphor & aids and its metaphors by Susan Sontag
- Kuby immunology by Judy Owen (like literally an immunology textbook)
I feel I should explain the three last books? In my 2019 TBR I explained some of my reading goals, in which one of them was to search for good descriptions of pain. The immunology textbook I can’t explain, other than I heard it was good, it’s just my exsistential crises over choosing an uni programme coming through (still think it’s going to be physics).
Recent book buys:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- In the woods by Tana French
- The sea around us by Rachel Carson
- A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
- The trial by Franz Kafka
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Three things on my mind:
- I watched Divergent again on netflix. I haven’t sat down and watched the whole thing since the release. It’s not a good movie, but it could be a whole lot worse (like Allegiant aah). The book just gives such an insight into Tris’ fears and fearlessness. What it made me think about though is just how much teenage me adored that book and any book where the main character breaks free and exchanges monotony with freedom, even if it comes with risks. Like the training, especially fight training, parts of a book, tv series or movie is absolutely my favourite part, because the main character has to find their strength quickly. And they’re always unfamiliar with the people and how far they mentally can push themselves.
- I’ve been sick. And studying. It’s been a bit of a mess of trying to figure out a new schedule that still meets deadlines and tests, which is always fun
- I’ve been listening a lot to “the Robot and the Unicorn” podcast by Alex Cox and Kathy Campbell and it’s wonderful. Fav episode I’ve heard this far is “Priests and belief”, but if you don’t know about any of them before, perhaps start on another episode that’s a bit more goofy and regular. Also the Ologies podcast by Alie Ward had new episodes on sea turtles and tortoises, which were so much more interesting than I expected!
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