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kingstoken) wrote2021-10-04 12:35 pm
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Third Quarter Reading Wrap-Up
I'm a little late posting this, but I've been reading a really good book this past week, ha! Here is my book bingo card, I am only one book away from being finished! I'm on the waiting list for a book from the library that I am hoping will fill that square. I read quite a bit in July, and then I had a bit of a slump in August, but I came back with a vengeance in September. Here is what I read this quarter:
*Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman - this one took me forever to read, it is a little dry, but the author tries to make the argument that humans are basically good, which I agree with. One problem I had with the book is that a lot of the stories he debunked I already knew about from listening to You're Wrong About, so there wasn't a lot of new info for me here.
*Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor by John Byrne - I had been wanting to read this graphic novel forever, it follows Bones after his time on the Enterprise. My one complaint is that I wish it was longer, I really liked following Bones around to different planets, trying to figure out medical mysteries.
*Betrothed to the Enemy Viking by Michelle Styles - this was an okay romance, probably could have done with a little more editing and polish, but at least it was in a less common time period, so that was nice.
*The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - I have mixed feelings on this one, it is really well written, and a fairly good depiction of grief and depression, but the way the protagonist treats the two women in his life, I was not a fan of. This supposedly won some awards back in the day, so it fulfilled that bingo square.
*Solutions and other Problems by Allie Brosh - this book is both funny and heartbreaking, I read the author's other book, and she has a great way of telling stories, there were parts where I was laughing so much. However, the chapter where she discusses the death of a family member had me crying.
*Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee - when I was going through my Loki phase earlier in the summer I picked this one up. It is a Marvel book about a teenage Loki who gets sent to earth by Odin. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and the author really did a better job with a bisexual and genderfluid Loki than the MCU did. I used it for my historical bingo square, because Loki visits 1880s London.
*Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - a well written book about a family of siblings trying to cope with the death of their mother and their deadbeat father, and when I say deadbeat I mean it, his character was so frustrating. Very character driven, it is very sad in some parts, but it does also give hope for these characters' futures.
*How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar by Rich Larson - a novelette heist story. I enjoyed it, but it is very violent in some parts, and probably would have been better if the characters had been fleshed out a little more.
*Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack - I don't normally read picture books, but I picked this one up for my banned bingo square, supposedly this has been banned by school boards, because it is has a prince and a knight fall in love with each other, oh my! Anyways, it is adorable, and I am thinking I might buy it for my friend's child at some point in the future
*West Coast Avengers, Vol. 2 City of Evils by Kelly Thompson - I finally got to read this! I won't say a lot because I made another post about it, but I am so sad the West Coast Avengers only got two volumes, I love the team dynamics!
*Starport by George RR Martin and Raya Golden - this one was alright, but not one of GRRM's best, usually he writes good women characters, but there were only a couple in this one, and they seemed a little lackluster. Also, the aliens seemed a little too much like aliens from other series for my taste, there was one group that was too much like Klingons, not physically, but culturally.
*The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang - this is another cute graphic novel, about prince that wants to dress like a woman, and his secret relationship with a dressmaker. Very fairy tale like.
*Gambit: Thieves' World by John Laymen - Gambit being his charming self, I love him, but I did miss the other X-Men. Wolverine shows up for a bit, and they have to pretend that all the X-Men are in town to scare a bad guy, which was pretty funny. The women characters were not great in this one, and of course they all want Gambit, sigh.
Currently reading:
*The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart - I am really liking this one so far, I don't want to jinx it, because I still have 50 pages to go, but unless I really hate the ending, this might be a new fave. My favourite character is a smuggler, who has a possibly mythical creature as a pet, I just love them, and if they die in the end I'm going to be so pissed. Anyways, I will probably include it in my year end wrap-up and let you know if it ended well.
*Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman - this one took me forever to read, it is a little dry, but the author tries to make the argument that humans are basically good, which I agree with. One problem I had with the book is that a lot of the stories he debunked I already knew about from listening to You're Wrong About, so there wasn't a lot of new info for me here.
*Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor by John Byrne - I had been wanting to read this graphic novel forever, it follows Bones after his time on the Enterprise. My one complaint is that I wish it was longer, I really liked following Bones around to different planets, trying to figure out medical mysteries.
*Betrothed to the Enemy Viking by Michelle Styles - this was an okay romance, probably could have done with a little more editing and polish, but at least it was in a less common time period, so that was nice.
*The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - I have mixed feelings on this one, it is really well written, and a fairly good depiction of grief and depression, but the way the protagonist treats the two women in his life, I was not a fan of. This supposedly won some awards back in the day, so it fulfilled that bingo square.
*Solutions and other Problems by Allie Brosh - this book is both funny and heartbreaking, I read the author's other book, and she has a great way of telling stories, there were parts where I was laughing so much. However, the chapter where she discusses the death of a family member had me crying.
*Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee - when I was going through my Loki phase earlier in the summer I picked this one up. It is a Marvel book about a teenage Loki who gets sent to earth by Odin. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and the author really did a better job with a bisexual and genderfluid Loki than the MCU did. I used it for my historical bingo square, because Loki visits 1880s London.
*Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - a well written book about a family of siblings trying to cope with the death of their mother and their deadbeat father, and when I say deadbeat I mean it, his character was so frustrating. Very character driven, it is very sad in some parts, but it does also give hope for these characters' futures.
*How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar by Rich Larson - a novelette heist story. I enjoyed it, but it is very violent in some parts, and probably would have been better if the characters had been fleshed out a little more.
*Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack - I don't normally read picture books, but I picked this one up for my banned bingo square, supposedly this has been banned by school boards, because it is has a prince and a knight fall in love with each other, oh my! Anyways, it is adorable, and I am thinking I might buy it for my friend's child at some point in the future
*West Coast Avengers, Vol. 2 City of Evils by Kelly Thompson - I finally got to read this! I won't say a lot because I made another post about it, but I am so sad the West Coast Avengers only got two volumes, I love the team dynamics!
*Starport by George RR Martin and Raya Golden - this one was alright, but not one of GRRM's best, usually he writes good women characters, but there were only a couple in this one, and they seemed a little lackluster. Also, the aliens seemed a little too much like aliens from other series for my taste, there was one group that was too much like Klingons, not physically, but culturally.
*The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang - this is another cute graphic novel, about prince that wants to dress like a woman, and his secret relationship with a dressmaker. Very fairy tale like.
*Gambit: Thieves' World by John Laymen - Gambit being his charming self, I love him, but I did miss the other X-Men. Wolverine shows up for a bit, and they have to pretend that all the X-Men are in town to scare a bad guy, which was pretty funny. The women characters were not great in this one, and of course they all want Gambit, sigh.
Currently reading:
*The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart - I am really liking this one so far, I don't want to jinx it, because I still have 50 pages to go, but unless I really hate the ending, this might be a new fave. My favourite character is a smuggler, who has a possibly mythical creature as a pet, I just love them, and if they die in the end I'm going to be so pissed. Anyways, I will probably include it in my year end wrap-up and let you know if it ended well.