Starting the year with one I‘ve been meaning to read for a while

Netflix Sandman is so good.

#shitheadfascists

This was so good. It took me a little while to really get into it because she throws you right into this unfamiliar place but by the end I couldn‘t put it down. Part Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and part House of Leaves. I hope it doesn‘t take another 16 years for her next book.

Gave in

Some light reading before bed.

This one of my favorite books. I read the physical version years ago, own it on ebook because it‘s lighter to carry and I‘ve been digitally borrowing the audio book from the library for a few years because it‘s great and super relaxing. The loan just expired and the wait time to borrow it again is up to ~14 weeks. So I broke down and finally bought the audiobook too. I might have a problem. 😆

2020 energy

🤜🤛

Yesssssss

#booksmas

Picked this back up. Not sure why I put it down.

Fantastic. I wish it had just gone on and on. I‘m kind of sad that I won‘t be able to follow the characters‘ lives anymore.

Emily Wilson‘s translation. I love that super smart and clever (Debatable but so we‘re told) Odysseus needs a goddess to tell him to hold on to something or he‘s going to die. Haha.

After reading Pat Barker‘s retelling of The Iliad I‘m (finally) starting Emily Wilson‘s translation of The Odyssey. The introduction was really thoughtful and interesting. I‘m excited about this version.

I really liked it. I read The Iliad in college but wasn‘t really sure what to expect from this. It‘s actually a pretty brutal version of the Trojan War that avoids glorifying the violence of that time or the original story in any way as it is told from the point of view of the woman given to Achilles as his “prize”. Barker even finds a way to include the gods and goddesses in a realistic sort of way which I appreciated.

Amazing. Toews is so good and she turns a nightmare of a true story into a story of women taking back their agency to save themselves and their children.

I love Salome.

I‘m only reading books written by women this month and I‘m excited to finally start this.

#BradburyOctober

#BradburyOctober

Relatable

I didn‘t hate it! but I‘m still anxious to check out more Johnson. For some reason I got kind of a The Sun Also Rises vibe from it. But instead of expatriated American writers moving recklessly through Europe it was an expatriated NATO agent and a mercenary moving recklessly through Africa. I don‘t know if that was Johnson‘s intent but it fits better than if I kept waiting for it to become a Robert Ludlum novel or something I think?

lol

Just starting. This is the first Denis Johnson book I‘ve read. It wasn‘t necessarily my first choice and based on these comments in the back from other readers I‘m worried it may have been the wrong one. Welp here we go.

I forgot I had this :(