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Finished reading Cooking with Pomiane

Rated A Newborn Playbook for First Time Dads 10/10

Rated Her Majesty's Royal Coven 7/10

Finished reading Compulsory

Wants to read Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Finished reading Cooking with Pomiane

Rated An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good 8/10

<div>Reminded me of a lot of Patricia Highsmith's short stories. I admit it was the cover and the title that made me check this out in the first place, but I'm glad it turned out to be a pretty great collection of stories.</div>

Finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Wants to read Intimations

Finished reading Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce, and Conservation

Wants to read Night's Master

Finished reading False Value

Wants to read Godkiller

Wants to read Hum

Finished reading A Girl Is a Body of Water

Wants to read Inkdeath (Inkheart Trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

Finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Rated Arrival 10/10

Rated Artificial Condition 8/10

<div>Enjoying this series so far via audiobook.</div><div><br></div>

Rated Authentically Mexican: A Family History in Six Dishes 10/10

Loved this. What a great set of personal food stories to finish out 2020 with.

Finished reading Amongst Our Weapons

Rated Children of the Land 10/10

What an excellent, honest, and illuminating memoir. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo brings us into his life as an undocumented-then-green-carded immigrant, and what it is like to not fully identify with the country of one's birth, nor of one's residence. The story of his parents' lives, both together and apart, is both heartfelt (without shying away from their flaws) and frustrating — frustrating in the sense that an immigrant's efforts to do things "right" is expensive, difficult, and draining, all for it to be arbitrarily denied because some official just wasn't feeling it that day. The writing is beautiful — unsurprising given Hernandez Castillo's poetry background — and I am so glad I read this.

Rated Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape 8/10

Rated Readings 4/10

Heady, intellectual ruminations on the state of culture and literature. This is a book for the concept-over-character readers, who like to discuss the meanings of ideas rather than the people who create them.<br><br>My full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/08/readings-by-sven-birkerts.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.

Finished reading Artificial Condition