Fourth Quarter Round Up and Things
Hello, Hungry Readers,
My big data nerd breakdown of 2024 reading will be on the blog soonish, but suffice it to say I read less but read well, and am quite happy with all of that.
Some books I didn’t yet mention that I read in the fourth quarter are below, with Bookshop links.
Alexander Chee’s Queen of the Night is about an opera singer who has several lives. It is told during several wars, and so - like with many operas has war, spies, betrayal, and tragedy. Note: Lilliet does masquerade a
Justinian Huang’s The Emperor and the Endless Palace has stories from multiple timelines told in an interlocking fashion. I usually find I like one timeline better, but I ended up finding this one really intriguing, especially the deeper (heh) we got into the story.
Analee Newitz’s Stories Are Weapons is deeply interesting about the use of stories to create and shift culture.
Not to be all, I read the book first, but I read Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown and it is just fascinating. I’m looking forward to seeing the TV version of it.
Nora Nguyen’s Adam and Evie’s Matchmaking Tour is the story of a matchmaking tour through Vietnam, so travel and the two people on the matchmaking tour who are of course not really going to fall in love, well, I’ll let you guess what happens there. Evie is there after the death of her aunt, so there is some grief along with some fraught family stuff to work through.
Alright folks. There will be more news about things I have written soonish. January always kind of eats my brain a bit and it takes a while to dig back out. We have snow here as I write this, and more in the forecast. (Yay!)
Do you find you read more or less when it’s cold?