New book posts:
- Exciting New Book Releases Autumn 2020 (part two)
- being sick, friendship & empathy | existential thoughts
- Maybe Reads #2 | Declutter my TBR
Other books I’ve been reading:
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (urban fantasy, post-apocalyptic, author is familiar with Navajo culture through her husband & the protagonist is Navajo) & the second book Storm of Locusts
- Sweetdark by Savannah Brown (poetry)
- Elysium by Nora Sakavic (urban fantasy, lgbt characters)
Added to TBR:
- Mythology by Edith Hamilton (mythology, classics)
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (mythology, historical fiction)
- What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky by Kelsey Oseid (mythology, graphic novel)
- Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik (science)
- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlandsky (science, graphic novel, middle grade)
- The Art of Heikala by Heikala (nonfiction: art)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (sci-fi, time travel, enemies to lovers, lgbt: f/f)
- Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (fantasy, lgbt: m/m, short story)
- Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy, sci-fi, anthology)
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (urban fantasy, sci-fi, time travel)
- Anyone by Charles Soule (sci-fi; tech, thriller)
- The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht (horror, gothic, lgbt; m/m)
- Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes (fantasy)
- Gravity by Tess Gerritsen (thriller, sci-fi)
- Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (sci-fi, time travel)
- Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria (fantasy, heist, lgbt; asexual, bi)
- Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire (urban fantasy)
- The Future of Humanity, Physics of the Future, The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku (science)
- Ironheart vol. 1 by Ewing, Libranda, Vecchio, Geoffo (graphic novel, sci-fi; superhero)
- Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World by Rachel Swaby (science, biography, feminism)
- Reaching for the Moon by Katherine G. Johnson (biography, science; space)
- Goddess of the Hunt by Shelby Eileen (poetry, mythology, lgbt; ownvoices aromantic-asexual)
- The Perfect Assassin by K. A. Doore (high fantasy, lgbt; asexual mc, lesbian assassins)
- Slayer by Kiersten White (urban fantasy, vampires, supernatural boarding school)
- A Vampire’s Redemption (The Inquisition Trilogy #2) by Casey Wolfe (fantasy, vampires, lgbt; m/m romance)
- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (fantasy, sci-fi, political, lgbt)
- The Hidden Girl and Other Short Stories by Ken Liu (short stories): the author’s other book The Paper Menagerie is my all-time favourite collection of short stories!
Three things on my mind:
- Wine nights brings me too much joy. At least when you have them with one of your roommate’s adorable family who is visiting, then after they leave (and leave four bottles of wine behind) just end up talking with the rest of the roommates far into the night; I might’ve woken up at 5 am for once, but I was certainly going to sleep at 6 am, like the night-creature I truly am. On exactly that topic I’m going to apply to be the leader (there’s always two; night and day-shift) of our math/physics students wine club, because there’s minimal work and a maximum of finding out strange traditions and making people feel welcome, no matter if they drink alcohol/wine or not. I love the vibe of that group. And I will not take slander that I should not be the nightly leader if I get it; the night is always my time.
- The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix is such a fantastic show. I have so many thoughts, but no time to write them all out – maybe I’ll do a round-up of tv series/movies I loved at the end of the year. But a chess-but-truly-personal story of a genius orphan girl that grows up and struggles with navigating abandonment issues, drug-problems, friendship and any type of relatioship. It has its problems, but I would’ve watched it just for the great actors, the fashion and the lighting to be honest.
- I’ve been writing more again, on the too-long project that never seem to end. I’ve got a lot of exams around the corner (if my physical health is up to it, that is), so I find myself not being able to turn off my brain for a break without going to these already-known methods; creating stories being one of them. It’s strange how that works. Hopefully, over christmas break even though I have a lot of other projects planned, I can get it edited into at least a coherent work in progress as there’s a lot of blank scenes needed for some type of plot to make sense. I think I would truly feel some type of achievement just having finished it, even though no one is going to read it for a long long time, if ever.
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I hardly ever see bloggers talk about Anyone by Charles Soule, so I’m happy to see you added it to your TBR. Its amazing!
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Oh, that’s very promising!
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