Reading In/Out 6/2/2026
As predicted, there wasn't a lot of reading time this weekend, but I did get a little bit done.
OUT
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe - I did finish this one on Sunday! I even got it in before the end of the month! I'll talk more in my wrap up, but it was good. The book stemmed from an article in the New Yorker? I think? I think that's right because he is a staff writer for the New Yorker. Anyway, after the article he got a book deal to write a whole book about this bizarre situation in London.
MAINTAINING
The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas - For all my talk about not liking short stories, I'm really enjoying this one. I'm getting close to halfway through the book. The main character is pretty immature here, but these stories are prequels to the later series and she is 16-17 years old. I can cut her some slack for being petty and irate.
The Accidental Law Librarian by Anthony Aycock - I'm still working on this one at work. I am also almost halfway through this one. The parts I'm at now do not apply to my position, so I'm kind of skimming and not taking notes. In related news: I got the advanced reading copy of his new book, Just Plain Filthy: The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial of the Century, which is about the 1975 Island Trees vs. Pico case that is (so far) the only book banning case that has gone before the Supreme Court.
Life After Death by Damien Echols - As usually happens when I am reading 2 books at the same time, I have started to focus more heavily on one and left the other to languish until the first is finished. This is the languisher right now, as I work on The Assassin's Blade. It's still going to get read, but just not immediately.
IN
Literature In Our Lives by Richard Jacobs - I got this as an advanced copy on audiobook. I'm on the first chapter, which is an hour long. (!!) Richard Jacobs is a professor at Brighton University and this book is a collection of lectures he gave about various aspects of literature and the teaching of literature. I'm kind of keeping up I think? He talks about a LOT of works. I don't know all of them.
Ok. There it is. My weekend reading summed up.