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83% complete! Hippo has read 10 of 12 books.
Forgot to mention that it was recommended by Savitri (who was a guest illustrator for Snipette) and also that we do have a big collection of Ray Bradbury stories at home, which I'm very familiar with and we keep quoting or referencing every so often—kind of like family lore, I guess?
Feels good now to be reading new, unfamiliar work by a very familiar author!
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of …
Started this about six days ago and it's going well so far! Recommended side dish: this Cubbon Reads post that talks about going slow and appreciating descriptions rather than plot:
This was a nice read. It felt like I was poking my nose into other peoples' affairs and you don't know how good that feels 😈
Started reading this on the bus en route to Salem (to catch a Kodaikanal night/early morning train). This is the only one book I'm carrying, since I tend to not get much time to read there, so let's see how it goes...
The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft …
Discovered this book when I was checking Bookwyrm moderation notifications! (I had to decide whether to approve the domain). Added to my e-reader, and now I'm reading it under the lamp at night. It's my first J-novel and I like it :)
My first and last reading sessions of this book were both after midnight which is weirdly appropriate :P
This story kind of reminded me of the true crime podcast Serial, which follows the conviction of Adnan Syed (who eventually got released, towards the end of the podcast or after it was released I think)
I haven't read any biographies or autobiographies in a while, and this was nice. I liked the fact that it's not linear; instead Nadja is actually taking us through her own process of discovering more about her family and collecting information for the book.
In some ways, this book is also its own "The Making Of __"!
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
The House of …
I've seen it come up so many times, so at this point I can't not read The Priory of the Orange Tree!
@Smileybone did you end up reading this? I was tempted as well when I saw it in Book Home but I was konjum broke at that time :P
@smileybone@todon.eu actually it's the magical fantasy elements that hooked me first :P
I ended up buying the book! After having read all of it on the Kobo at that.
Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA programme at Warren …
Okay, this wasn't as weird as 'Cursed Bunny' (completely unrelated book), but it was weird in a nice way because that made it not a typical college drama! I'm not going to say what the weirdness was
@DerekCaelin@bookwyrm.social wow, one book a week huh? :O
The Gruffalo is a British children's picture book by author Julia Donaldson and illustrated by …
A cool picture-book story about a very smart mouse! The illustrations by Axel Scheffler are awesome too. I picked this up for a good deal at the (newest, third) Blossom's 😉
Another "stayed up till midnight to finish" read! I started this on a bus, took it to Cubbon Reads on Saturday but still had a few chapters to go, and then finished when I got home late in the night (post-dinner). By the time I was done, it was 1:15 AM and the 31st of December :P
The plot was a pretty typical high-school/college romance, so nothing special there (I could kind of make out from the beginning, so it's not even a spoiler). But the fun part is all the fanfiction references and how fanfic plays such a large role in the protagonist's life!
