Finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
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Rated Doctor Who: Empire of the Racnoss 7/10
<div>This was fine.</div>
Finished reading Does This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves
Wants to read Everything Will Swallow You
Rated Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven 6/10
This is like CBT and mindfulness under the label of witchcraft, which is fine, but I don't think I was the right audience. Some of the book will sound very familiar to anyone who has spent time in therapy, and there's value in having that information in one spot. If you're still in your 20s and/or still thinking a lot about "what does everyone else think?" and want to start relinquishing that, you'll get something out of it. If you're almost 40, were hoping to read more history paired with practice, and are not feeling particularly insecure when it comes to some of these topics... well, your mileage may vary.
Rated Caliban’s War 10/10
Still loving this series. My one quibble is, yes, we get it, Bobbie is bigger than the rest of them. No need to mention it every single time she walks into the room.
Finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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 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 Foxglove Summer
Finished reading Aya of Yop City
Wants to read Gideon the Ninth
Wants to read Guards! Guards!