What books/comics/mangas etc. Did you read in June?
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.
Elantris, Warbreaker and started The Way of Kings, all by Brandon Sanderson. Read Mistborn Era 1 a couple years ago and loved it, finally decided to jump head in into the Cosmere.
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 just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven’t breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!
Technically I finished the last few pages of this yesterday but whatever - Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens was an adorable rivals-to-lovers story with some excellent magical worldbuilding. It also has so much in common with The Owl House I refuse to believe the author isn’t a fan.
Manna - Marshall Brain
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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 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.
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
I’m a sucker for (post) apocalyptic survival, but overall it wasn’t very good. The first third was fairly engaging, but the other two thirds were relatively predictable. By then end of the book I disliked pretty much every character.
I feel like Niven just couldn’t write people at all (especially women.) He had some cool concepts but I won’t be going back to his work.
-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 :)
A few Animorphs and the Well of Ascension. I have a few active challenges on Storygraph.
I love Storygraph. Way better than Goodreads imo.
Swan Light by Phoebe Rowe - I really enjoyed this book telling two connected stories that occurred 100 years apart in parallel, centering around a lighthouse in Newfoundland that collapsed into the ocean and the search to find it.
The Weight of Air by David Poses - Autobiographical book advocating for harm reduction approaches in treating addiction. I was sad to see that the author passed away last year, it’s clear that his book has helped a lot of people.
