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Rated Harlem Shuffle 6/10

Rated Fugitive Telemetry 8/10

Rated XO 6/10

Rated A Little Life 6/10

Finished reading Dune

Rated I, Jacobi - In Conversation with Derek Jacobi 8/10

<div>If you're a fan of the actor, this is a nice conversation about his life and career.</div>

Finished reading Le Messie de Dune

Rated Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer 6/10

(Perhaps more of a 3.5.)<br><br>I enjoyed this, though it was not love. I'd never heard about this real life case, and it's an interesting story that notes the classicism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia present in England at the time (vestiges of which remain today). We get good biographical notes about both Conan Doyle and Oscar Slater, the man falsely accused of murder, as well as historical context for attitudes at the time. Definitely worth a read if you're into Conan Doyle/Sherlock, and enjoyable enough for a person interested in true crime tales and investigative reports.

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

Rated Earthlings 7/10

<div>Interesting, but wtfffffffff</div>

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>

Rated Wade in the Water: Poems 10/10

Beautiful and heartbreaking and innovative. I wish everyone would read Tracy K. Smith.

Rated The Golden State 10/10

<div>Loved this. I was reminded that I wanted to read the book when it was recently included on a list of books that take place all over the US, ones that have a strong sense of place, and this one certainly does. I also found the tone of the writing very honest and relatable, particularly the harried mental-checklists-of-parenting-babies portions. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator also does a great job with the different characters' voices. Definitely recommend.</div>

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 Tiamat's Wrath

Finished reading The Midlander

Finished reading The Balkans, 1804-2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers

Finished reading The Hobbit

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

Finished reading The Stranger

Rated Mort 9/10