Rated A Natural History of Dragons 6/10
I would have loooooved this when I was a kid. As a (married, child-having) adult it's hard to get past the way the protagonist handles the events of the last couple chapters of the book.
Finished reading The Story of a New Name
Finished reading The Handmaid’s Tale
Rated Circle of Days 7/10
This was fun! You can get through it in a day or two and it feels like watching a movie. I'm kind of shocked it was more than 700 pages since I read it as an ebook and it went so quickly.
Rated I Who Have Never Known Men 10/10
This book is fairly misrepresented in the blurb and people's descriptions, IMO, I don't think it's about female friendship and intimacy basically at all, and it's only barely science fiction. It's one of the most existentially horrifying novels I have ever read, though. It's about the death of an entire society and is clearly informed by the Holocaust.
Rated Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia 9/10
Wants to read Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Rated Kings and Pawns: A Novel of Viking Age England 10/10
Rated The Frozen River 7/10
Historical fiction, pretty anachronistic (our protagonists all have very modern values) but I didn’t mind that. Near the end there was a description of several young kids dying of disease that kept me up late though.
Rated The Lost Viking 6/10
I do hope this is the last book in the series, as much as I have enjoyed the rest. I think the story of the Man with the Dog's Name has run its course. I haven't given up on Peter Gibbons but I'll be on the watch for other characters and adventures.
