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Book 22 of 2024: Still Life by Winman
3.75 stars
I loved many things about this book: the prose, both major settings, some of the characters, the themes. But it was somehow less than the sum of its parts for me.
My two biggest complaints are my personal pet peeves in modern lit fic: a series of serendipitously interlocking stories where all the characters are magically related to each other, and the refusal to use quotation marks to indicate dialogue.
Book 21 of 2024
Menewood
4.5 stars
A sumptuous, mature sequel. Griffith creates well-drawn characters who feel real but sometimes hold startlingly alien values, appropriate to the era. There are some gorgeous passages about the natural world, spirituality, and grief.
This one had a tad too much war and battle strategy for my taste, but it's interesting to see Griffith try to reverse engineer an explanation for a pretty unexplainable historical event.
Another round of #Wingspan tonight, my highest score yet! I got a couple really synergized, well-developed engines going and invested a lot in egg production.
Getting cuddled by three people at once? She is her ancestors' wildest dream. This is why they domesticated themselves all those millennia ago.
This came out of nowhere and hit me like a ton of bricks.
I've had such an influx of long-awaited sequel pre-orders arriving plus library holds coming through, and then a friend lent me yet more books!
I love having so many reading options that I need to use the notes app to keep track of my queue. 🥰
Tried out #Sagrada and enjoyed it a lot. Deceptively simple dice placing and pattern making with a fun theme.
I never really got into the habit of using bookmarks consistently until my partner got me this nifty astronaut. 🚀