reading update
Dec. 6th, 2024 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oringreyhihi! I took off work yesterday because I really wasn't feeling well. Now that I'm in my 30s I feel like I'm much more sensitive to what I eat.
But at least it gave me the time to get some reading done!
I finished The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins and oh. my. god! It blew my mind, knocked my world off its axis, changed my brain chemistry; I am completely incapable of being normal, rational, or objective about it, so don't even ask!
It's kind of a hard book to recommend because it's quite weird, I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it. And it does have some gross parts. But if it sounds at all interesting to you, or you just like weirder fiction in general, I definitely recommend it! It's one of those books that I wanted to reread as soon as I finished it. Definitely one of my favorite reads of the year!
And it's been just so cool to see my husband who, before this year, probably hasn't finished a book since high school, get really into this book too. It's literally been so much fun, this is one of the best things we've done together.
I'm next up to pick what we read so let me know if you have any suggestions, though I do have some ideas, myself.
Then I started reading the novelization of X by Tim Waggoner. I looove a movie novelization, always have, so I was really excited when I saw they were releasing novelizations of Ti West's X trilogy and had to order the two that were available immediately!
X is great so far! I wouldn't say the writing is spectacular but it's definitely solid and it's been really interesting to experience the story in a different way, and to re-experience it after watching Pearl. I'm having a lot of fun with it and I'm looking forward to reading Pearl next.
But at least it gave me the time to get some reading done!
I finished The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins and oh. my. god! It blew my mind, knocked my world off its axis, changed my brain chemistry; I am completely incapable of being normal, rational, or objective about it, so don't even ask!
It's kind of a hard book to recommend because it's quite weird, I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it. And it does have some gross parts. But if it sounds at all interesting to you, or you just like weirder fiction in general, I definitely recommend it! It's one of those books that I wanted to reread as soon as I finished it. Definitely one of my favorite reads of the year!
And it's been just so cool to see my husband who, before this year, probably hasn't finished a book since high school, get really into this book too. It's literally been so much fun, this is one of the best things we've done together.
I'm next up to pick what we read so let me know if you have any suggestions, though I do have some ideas, myself.
Then I started reading the novelization of X by Tim Waggoner. I looove a movie novelization, always have, so I was really excited when I saw they were releasing novelizations of Ti West's X trilogy and had to order the two that were available immediately!
X is great so far! I wouldn't say the writing is spectacular but it's definitely solid and it's been really interesting to experience the story in a different way, and to re-experience it after watching Pearl. I'm having a lot of fun with it and I'm looking forward to reading Pearl next.
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Date: 2024-12-06 07:49 pm (UTC)I've always been lactose intolerant but I feel like my dairy tolerance has gotten so much worse. I think it's the processed food that's really messing with me now, though, and that's new! So not fair!