Just a quick list (wip)
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adepslanaeOf books I read last summer - which ended two weeks ago! Who doesn't love going from reading outdoors to winter time in just two weeks?
Anyway, summer was very tiring and very stressful and I had very little free time. In spite of that, I managed to read probably as many books as last year and I also picked up new-old hobbies (cross stitch, sashiko embroidery).
So here goes:
The only book I read last autumn was "Earth Fathers are Weird", which was a fun read but would have required more smut (and romance, I guess, but mainly smut) than action. Still, tentacle mpreg, yay.
Then sometime in...winter? Spring? I started "How to paint a dead man" by Sarah Hall. This was a tough read, esp. vocabulary wise, for me. I did enjoy it though! Esp. The Mirror Crisis and The divine vision of Annette Tambroni. The Fool on the Hill was the hardest section for me to read thanks to all the very local vocabulary, but it was still very interesting. The Bottle Journals part was the blandest.
I finished it in June, then came:
- Mizuumi by Banana Yoshimoto
- The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill...set in Scotland and completely different from what I imagined when I read the blurb. I'm not sure I agree with everything in the book, but it was a quick, painless read.
- Red, White & Royal Blue (which was kind of a disappointment, in the end.)
- The Sunken Land begins to rise again, which I loved!!! My August book. When I started this, I only remembered that it was about something weird. It's the type of novel that is not about going from A to B, rather it's about trudging around between A and B. I loved the setting (idk what it is about the English countryside that is so fascinating to me), I loved the supernatural at-times-horror elements, I loved the vagueness of it all.
- Come si fa a piacersi by Yukiko Motoya
- Azami by Aki Shimizu (in the original French! Mainly read for the simple French, I would not have enjoyed it otherwise, I think)
- Un'estate con la strega dell'ovest by Kaho Nashiki
- La Fabbrica by Hiroko Oyamada (this is a bit like The Sunken Land begins to rise again, in that it's not plot-driven and the characters are also 'misfits' to a degree, plus it has a tiny bit of supernatural too.)
I also began Light by M. John Harrison (more complex than The Sunken Land begins to rise again) and a novel by MIshima...oh and the Sylvain Tesson novel (... ...yeah, this French is def more vocabulary-complicated for me.)
Anyway, summer was very tiring and very stressful and I had very little free time. In spite of that, I managed to read probably as many books as last year and I also picked up new-old hobbies (cross stitch, sashiko embroidery).
So here goes:
The only book I read last autumn was "Earth Fathers are Weird", which was a fun read but would have required more smut (and romance, I guess, but mainly smut) than action. Still, tentacle mpreg, yay.
Then sometime in...winter? Spring? I started "How to paint a dead man" by Sarah Hall. This was a tough read, esp. vocabulary wise, for me. I did enjoy it though! Esp. The Mirror Crisis and The divine vision of Annette Tambroni. The Fool on the Hill was the hardest section for me to read thanks to all the very local vocabulary, but it was still very interesting. The Bottle Journals part was the blandest.
I finished it in June, then came:
- Mizuumi by Banana Yoshimoto
- The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill...set in Scotland and completely different from what I imagined when I read the blurb. I'm not sure I agree with everything in the book, but it was a quick, painless read.
- Red, White & Royal Blue (which was kind of a disappointment, in the end.)
- The Sunken Land begins to rise again, which I loved!!! My August book. When I started this, I only remembered that it was about something weird. It's the type of novel that is not about going from A to B, rather it's about trudging around between A and B. I loved the setting (idk what it is about the English countryside that is so fascinating to me), I loved the supernatural at-times-horror elements, I loved the vagueness of it all.
- Come si fa a piacersi by Yukiko Motoya
- Azami by Aki Shimizu (in the original French! Mainly read for the simple French, I would not have enjoyed it otherwise, I think)
- Un'estate con la strega dell'ovest by Kaho Nashiki
- La Fabbrica by Hiroko Oyamada (this is a bit like The Sunken Land begins to rise again, in that it's not plot-driven and the characters are also 'misfits' to a degree, plus it has a tiny bit of supernatural too.)
I also began Light by M. John Harrison (more complex than The Sunken Land begins to rise again) and a novel by MIshima...oh and the Sylvain Tesson novel (... ...yeah, this French is def more vocabulary-complicated for me.)