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.)
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Date: 2 Feb 2020 23:43 (UTC)no subject
Date: 3 Feb 2020 10:59 (UTC)And now I'm very curious about the Mudlarking book so will go and poke the library's ebook collection (without much hope, if I'm honest as their selection's very lacking in anything I want to read!)
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Date: 3 Feb 2020 14:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 3 Feb 2020 14:58 (UTC)Fingers crossed they have a copy - it's a fun read.
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Date: 3 Feb 2020 15:44 (UTC)