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Finished reading:
A green and ancient light by Frederic S. Durban. This turned out to be exactly the sort of thing I needed to read about now: the personal stakes of rescuing and hiding an enemy soldier, and solving a long-kept riddle, rather than the world being about to end. A small village, and so many green things and soothing nature. Beautifully written by an adult vividly remembering what it was to be nine, and having a wonderful relationship with his grandmother for a single summer. Yes please. Also, I finished it! The ending was almost too heartbreaking – real, and therefore heartbreaking – to be bitter-sweet, I'm near to recommending that people stop reading before the last few pages, honestly. Highly reccing the rest of it.
Currently reading:
The mysterious Benedict society by Trenton Lee Stewart. This is a children's book, and a delightfully free-floating one at that. This is 'the world will end!!1!1!' type drama, but it's intentionally so over-the-top and wryly written that I both don't mind and it's keeping me engaged. I doubt I'll try the next in the series, but it's a much-needed, very pleasant, 500-page diversion right now.
Up next:
I'm quietly desperate for The house in the cerulean sea by T J Klune to come in from my order list. Having something to read/fall into is keeping my headspace on an even-keel, enough that I might well start the next one in the Benedict series just so I've got a Something.
A green and ancient light by Frederic S. Durban. This turned out to be exactly the sort of thing I needed to read about now: the personal stakes of rescuing and hiding an enemy soldier, and solving a long-kept riddle, rather than the world being about to end. A small village, and so many green things and soothing nature. Beautifully written by an adult vividly remembering what it was to be nine, and having a wonderful relationship with his grandmother for a single summer. Yes please. Also, I finished it! The ending was almost too heartbreaking – real, and therefore heartbreaking – to be bitter-sweet, I'm near to recommending that people stop reading before the last few pages, honestly. Highly reccing the rest of it.
Currently reading:
The mysterious Benedict society by Trenton Lee Stewart. This is a children's book, and a delightfully free-floating one at that. This is 'the world will end!!1!1!' type drama, but it's intentionally so over-the-top and wryly written that I both don't mind and it's keeping me engaged. I doubt I'll try the next in the series, but it's a much-needed, very pleasant, 500-page diversion right now.
Up next:
I'm quietly desperate for The house in the cerulean sea by T J Klune to come in from my order list. Having something to read/fall into is keeping my headspace on an even-keel, enough that I might well start the next one in the Benedict series just so I've got a Something.