Friday Reads 9/13/2024

It's Friday the 13th! This is basically the extent of my celebrating, but I like to acknowledge it. Also, I feel like we are in spooky season now (regardless of what the weather thinks), so it feels nice to have a Friday the 13th in spooky season.

I've been reading. So that's good. But I am having a little trouble. Let's discuss.

Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders - I am half way through this one, and it's not great. My kid says "Don't fall for the sunk cost fallacy." She means to stop reading a bad book just because you've already read half of it. I'm reading it to fulfill the challenge to read a book with purple on the cover. If I stop reading. I'll have to read a-whole-nother book with purple on the cover. On the other hand, I'm just really not enjoying this book. The pacing is all over the place. The writing is juvenile (which, it's YA, but you don't have to write down to teen readers.) It takes place in space, which is fine, but some of these paragraphs feel like an excuse to string together letters that don't work together to name the alien races. I swear to you, one of the aliens is named uiuiuiui. I think I've talked myself into moving on before I put myself in a reading slump.

Cruel as the Grave by Sharon Kay Penman - It's about time to read the next in my 3 books by the same author. I'll go ahead and grab this one next. It has less than 250 pages! It doesn't look that small in person. So that's cool. These books feel like fantasy because they are set in medieval England, but there are no dragons and no magic.

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy - This is the next book from the 10 oldest books on my shelves. I need to get this knocked out this month. I can probably read these two books at the same time, going back and forth between them, because they are very different in setting and plot. We'll see.

I don't figure I'll finish any of these in the next week, so that's it for today.