Books and comics read in January 2020
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usuallyhatsAncestral Night - Elizabeth Bear
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames - Lara Maiklem
Smile - Raina Telgemeier
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part One
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
Black Widow: No More Secrets
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian
The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brian
Being Mortal
Powerful, moving, important book about death and dying. Absolutely worth reading, though I recommend making sure you can read the last twenty pages or so at least in private - they deal with the death of the author's father, and they made me cry a lot.
(content notes: death, dying, graphic details of medical procedures)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
This is beautifully written and the worldbuilding is great, and it as a lot of good and important things to say about freedom, privilege and the consequences of emotional abuse. I found the emphasis on m/f romance as the most powerful and important thing ever a bit tedious (and possibly the reason why I didn't quite connect with it as much as I wanted to), but otherwise this was an absorbing and enjoyable read, with some definite Joan Aiken vibes.
(content notes: emotional abuse, animal harm)
A short story I enjoyed this month:
Compulsory, by Martha Wells: bite-sized prequel to the Murderbot Diaries
This month I also finished the delightful middle-grade sf novel that Nicole Kornher-Stace has been posting on her Patreon, which was extremely good - she's sold it to a publisher so I'll be sure to yell about it again when it's published.
And I fell into an Aubrey-Maturin reread, which has been an extremely good time; it's cooling off a little now, but I think that's partly because I've been reading the library'e ebooks and I'm a bit fed up of reading on my phone. (They are also somewhat typo-heavy, which is a little tedious.)
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames - Lara Maiklem
Smile - Raina Telgemeier
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part One
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
Black Widow: No More Secrets
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian
The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brian
Being Mortal
Powerful, moving, important book about death and dying. Absolutely worth reading, though I recommend making sure you can read the last twenty pages or so at least in private - they deal with the death of the author's father, and they made me cry a lot.
(content notes: death, dying, graphic details of medical procedures)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
This is beautifully written and the worldbuilding is great, and it as a lot of good and important things to say about freedom, privilege and the consequences of emotional abuse. I found the emphasis on m/f romance as the most powerful and important thing ever a bit tedious (and possibly the reason why I didn't quite connect with it as much as I wanted to), but otherwise this was an absorbing and enjoyable read, with some definite Joan Aiken vibes.
(content notes: emotional abuse, animal harm)
A short story I enjoyed this month:
Compulsory, by Martha Wells: bite-sized prequel to the Murderbot Diaries
This month I also finished the delightful middle-grade sf novel that Nicole Kornher-Stace has been posting on her Patreon, which was extremely good - she's sold it to a publisher so I'll be sure to yell about it again when it's published.
And I fell into an Aubrey-Maturin reread, which has been an extremely good time; it's cooling off a little now, but I think that's partly because I've been reading the library'e ebooks and I'm a bit fed up of reading on my phone. (They are also somewhat typo-heavy, which is a little tedious.)