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Rated Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory 4/10

Rated The Curse of Chalion 10/10

Rated When the World Didn't End 8/10

<div>Guinevere Turner's memoir about her childhood split between growing up in the Lyman Family cult and later an abusive household with her mother, step-father, and siblings was a harrowing read, but an interesting one. Using her diaries as scaffolding, she writes from the perspective of her child-self and how she felt about what was happening to her at the time. Though I maybe would have liked a little more adult-self perspective near the end, I also understand that writing it this way makes it all the more clear what it's like to be in these situations, how your perspective gets warped by what the adults in your life are telling you. It's also wild how she was actually somewhat safer within a cult than she was living with her mother/step-father, though of course, living with the Family had its own share of problems. I'd be interested to read another memoir from Turner about how she navigated life after getting free from these terrible situations.</div>

Finished reading You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Finished reading Xenocide

Finished reading Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Rated Doctor Who: I Am The Master 10/10

Oh I loved this. A bit meta, well-suited for headphones, the Master being devious. It's great.

Finished reading The Midlander

Rated Iris Wildthyme: The Sound of Fear 6/10

This was my first Iris Wildthyme story, and I liked it well enough to continue on to other stories of hers, but it wasn't all-out love.

Rated The Fortress of Solitude 10/10

Rated nation 8/10

Reading Second Foundation

Reading The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past

Finished reading The Mercy of Gods

Finished reading Wonder Woman (2006-2011) #12

Rated Gallifrey: Mindbomb 8/10

A pretty great political thriller with lots of twists. Good stuff.

Finished reading The Eye of the World

Finished reading Tennyson: Selected Poetry

Rated The Time Traveler's Wife 8/10

Rated We Need to Do Something 9/10

<div>Was it absolutely perfect? Eh, maybe not. Lots of dialogue back-and-forth that makes it clear the story began as a screenplay. BUT! I was all-in on this story, so I don't care! This is a GREAT horror novella that really, really makes you feel the tension as this family is confined to their bathroom during a storm.<br><br>I picked this up because I ended up following the author on Bluesky, and sometimes when I follow an author, it feels polite to have read at least ONE of their books, so I'm glad my library had this. I'll look for more by them.</div>

Wants to read The Lesser Bohemians

Finished reading Time Shelter

Finished reading Selected Poems

Rated The Mad Scientist's Daughter 8/10

Finished reading Radium Girls