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Finished reading: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 📚
Thought I was too cynical for a book that boldly states on the cover that it is a love story. Apparently when there’s queers, stars and space travel involved, I am not.
Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚
I needed this to be a bit pacier. Started well but never really recovered from the lull in the middle.
Finished reading: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 📚
I think I need to give this another read at a different time. Not sure if it didn’t live up to my expectation or whether I purposely held myself back from it.
Finished reading: Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson 📚
Finished reading: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg 📚
Brutal. Tender. Draining. Honest. Necessary. And thankfully a little bit hopeful. The story of a life lived in between. I wonder what impact this book would have had on me if I’d read it earlier.
Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚
Really enjoyed how this story was constructed. Learning along with the main character as he pieced together what was going on really gripped me.
Finished reading: A Darker Domain by Val McDermid 📚
Finished reading: Disobedience by Naomi Alderman 📚
Such subtleties in the telling of this story. I’ve raced through it, and although I’d happily read more about the lives of these characters, it’s near perfect in its snapshot of a moment in time.
Finished reading: The Distant Echo by Val McDermid 📚
For a book in the Karen Pirie series, I expected more Karen Pirie. A good mystery to solve nevertheless.
Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚
An enjoyable read but was left feeling I wanted something more.
Finished reading: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson 📚
Bit meh. A few too many characters to get really attached to anyone or their story.
Read in 2025: Crudo by Olivia Laing 📚
Read in two sittings which was probably best as I didn’t get in with it. Will stick to Laing’s non-fiction.
Finished reading: Mongrel by Hanako Footman 📚
The story of three women getting to know themselves and each other. Surprising. And challenging. And tender.
Finished reading: Union Jack by Val McDermid 📚
Think I’ve gone as far with Lindsey Gordon as I can for now.
Finished reading: The Unfolding by A.M. Homes 📚
As ever from A.M. Homes, an engaging and witty story that pulled me in from the first few pages. I needed this to find some flow to my reading again.
Finished reading: Babel by R. F Kuang 📚
Thoroughly enjoyable. Some good twists along the way. Got a little pedestrian in the final third though which has tempered my enthusiasm a little.
The bookend to my day yesterday, walking home via the Quayside. Spot Venus 🪐
Mad sky this morning on my commute
I’m kinda glad I don’t get annual podcast stats, otherwise you’d know how much time I spend thinking about my fantasy premier league team 😆