October 2017

I read:

Thoughts:

I’ve lost my reading mojo. The Seventh Function of Language took forever to get through, so did the physics book. Now I’m reading a big, long book on the Marshall plan and it takes me half an hour to read ten pages and the book is five hundred pages long. Then I stupidly keep requesting books and going to the library (although I did exercise restraint and not take out Mason & Dixon, so yay for me I guess? Who knows. I’m in a slump.

Speed of Life by Carol Weston: Reviewed earlier.

The Best American Series by Various: Reviewed earlier.

The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan: So yes, it looks like a ridiculous romance novel cover, but it’s good. Selkies!

Math For Couples by Adele Graf: Reviewed earlier.

Welcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott: Reviewed earlier.

Favourite book:



Most promising book on my wishlist:



I wrote:

So much of my horrible story of adults being horrible. It’s being written not as anything other than my first attempt to actually see an adult novel all the way through to the end.