What books/comics/mangas etc. Did you read in June?
I read The City & The City by China Mieville and some bits of Psychogeography by Will Self.
I would recommend the first one, especially if you like detective stories (and games like Disco Elysium).
I’m not sure about the second, it’s a collection of columns and the throughline isn’t as good as I’d hoped.
I just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven’t breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!
I’ve re-read the first Harry Potter. It’s been so long since I last read it. I felt that it really wasn’t poorly written. Sure it’s a children’s book but i looked reading it. And I’ve started reading flatland
Are there people out there that say it’s poorly written? That’s just not the case at all. It’s a very well-writte book, and that really does help when you dive back in to re-read it after a while.
I guess it’s just a couple people i know IRL that keep insisting that Harry Potter is poorly written. But I guess they’re just upset at the little world building in consistencies with like the Time-Turner and what not, and are not thinking about the language side of things.
I have read Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders.
I can recommend it to anyone who are interested in the politics of US. Bernie talked about the main problems in the US. He talked about discrimination, the corruption, populism, wealth distribution and the negative effect of far capitalism overall.
The best bit of the book in my opinion, that you will understand why’s the society so against socialism’s ideas, even if it would significantly improve their life in many cases.
I read when When Women were Dragons! It was excellent! I read a couple other books too but this one really stood out to me. It was a coming of age story that was a metaphor for basic feminist theory.
Manna - Marshall Brain
-Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
-How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (personal favorite for this month)!
-Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
-I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
-Happy Place by Emily Henry
-Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
-The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
-The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
-Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
-Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
-Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose
-Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
-Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
-Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
-Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
-Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy
Woah you were busy
can’t figure out how to edit on lemmy yet; however, Shoulder Season was also another favorite and i highly recommend it as well :)
I read Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery cos I liked the tv series and wanted to see where it went. By the third book I was bored af so I totally changed to The First Law by Abercrombie. So far it’s really good,
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Always Coming Home - Ursula K. LeGuin - I absolutely loved this book. I’m still keep thinking about the Kesh people that this book explores. Very strange read, absolutely recommended.
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The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin - Really enjoyed this book. The way it uses perspective was really great. The ending felt okay. I’m definitely going to be picking up the next one sometime soon.
Currently reading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, which has been a fascinating read thus far, but I’m only halfway through.
After that I’m planning on reading Among Others by Jo Walton (I loved her Thessaly series)
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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch - I really enjoyed this storytelling and plot about multiple dimensions and timelines and murder. Thrilling and exciting.
A few Animorphs and the Well of Ascension. I have a few active challenges on Storygraph.
I love Storygraph. Way better than Goodreads imo.
Tasha’s cauldron of everything… DnD rulebook.
Hopped around a few different genres but really enjoyed all the books I read in June:
- The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
- The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
I read the Broadbent one! How did you like the second book compared to the first? I feel like the one thing that kinda fell flat is that every fight was described as the hardest fight ever, so when the last battle came the author was just rehashing those same descriptions.
Still, I enjoyed the story, and those books were far more well-written than most in the Romantacy genre.
I really enjoyed it! I’m not sure I liked it as much as the first one, I think the pacing in that one for me was a little bit better, but am excited to see what Broadbent writes next in that world. I’m newer to the Romantacy genre (have only read the ACOTAR series and Fourth Wing) but have already had a lot of fun with the books I’ve read so far.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- The Boys from Biloxi
Michael Connelly:
- The black box
- The concrete blonde
- The last Coyote
I am open for recommendations
I read the Cradle series by Will Wight. Lots of fun! Interesting magic system, fun progression as the main characters get more and more powerful through the books.