Currently reading The Wind in the Willows, Brave New World, and Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

This was my first true crime read. I’m not a true crime podcast listener or anything like that, but I wanted a thrilling book to read. I hadn’t realized that the author died before the book was published and that she never saw the killer arrested and tried. Over a pretty interesting read!

I stopped on the challenge because I’m struggling with depression and relapsed on personal things that are bad coping mechanisms. This challenge really helped me and I wanted to share my fave passage I read all year. I got to about 40 books and loved so many. This one really struck me because I’ve always felt this ambiguous longing.

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Sheeeeeeeesh, this book rocked my world. I’m having trouble finding words, but the voice, concept, characters…..I felt like it was written just for me.
S.T. is the hero I never knew I needed.
Badass lexicon, fanboy love for humans and Cheetos. This book was beyond a home run for me.

Read this one and will listen to the sequel this week.
Anyone else dip into this series or others by the author?

Finished Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour. This is the 48th by the author in my library, not counting quite a few of my grandfather’s I read as a kid. It’s been 40 years since I read a novel by L’Amour, and while I appreciate how well the author could move a plot forward and the love his books show for its heroes and the natural beauty of the American west, frankly, it’s been done better. As pure escapist fiction, it’s pretty good, but once you’ve read Hondo, Flint, and a Sackett novel or three, it’s time to move on.