I’ve re-read the first Harry Potter. It’s been so long since I last read it. I felt that it really wasn’t poorly written. Sure it’s a children’s book but i looked reading it. And I’ve started reading flatland

I just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven’t breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!

I finished:

• The Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz
• L’Âge des low-tech by Philippe Bihouix
• High Rise by J.G. Ballard
• Elle et son chat by Makoto Shinkai
• Judaism: A Very Short Introduction
• Berlin Stories by Robert Walser

I just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven’t breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!

• Always Coming Home - Ursula K. LeGuin - I absolutely loved this book. I’m still keep thinking about the Kesh people that this book explores. Very strange read, absolutely recommended.

• The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin - Really enjoyed this book. The way it uses perspective was really great. The ending felt okay. I’m definitely going to be picking up the next one sometime soon.

Currently reading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, which has been a fascinating read thus far, but I’m only halfway through.

After that I’m planning on reading Among Others by Jo Walton (I loved her Thessaly series)

Manna - Marshall Brain

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch - I really enjoyed this storytelling and plot about multiple dimensions and timelines and murder. Thrilling and exciting.

Working on three body problem. I dont know if anyone else have a hard time with translated works, but I always feel like some part of the book is missing when translated. Like iboixk up on a few context clues that something should be known.

Anyways I’m enjoying it, just lots of extra lookin things up, makes it a bit tedious.

I read when When Women were Dragons! It was excellent! I read a couple other books too but this one really stood out to me. It was a coming of age story that was a metaphor for basic feminist theory.

I read The City & The City by China Mieville and some bits of Psychogeography by Will Self.

I would recommend the first one, especially if you like detective stories (and games like Disco Elysium).

I’m not sure about the second, it’s a collection of columns and the throughline isn’t as good as I’d hoped.

I read Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery cos I liked the tv series and wanted to see where it went. By the third book I was bored af so I totally changed to The First Law by Abercrombie. So far it’s really good,

A few Animorphs and the Well of Ascension. I have a few active challenges on Storygraph.

Swan Light by Phoebe Rowe - I really enjoyed this book telling two connected stories that occurred 100 years apart in parallel, centering around a lighthouse in Newfoundland that collapsed into the ocean and the search to find it.

The Weight of Air by David Poses - Autobiographical book advocating for harm reduction approaches in treating addiction. I was sad to see that the author passed away last year, it’s clear that his book has helped a lot of people.

-Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

-Normal People by Sally Rooney

-How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (personal favorite for this month)!

-Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

-I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

-Happy Place by Emily Henry

-Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford

-The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

-The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

-Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

-Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

-Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose

-Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

-Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

-Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

-Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

-Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

Kept it pretty lowkey in June, read only two books: Loop by Koji Suzuki (3rd book in the Ring series) and Osamu Dazai’s recently translated The Flowers of Buffoonery.