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Hi Everyone!

I had a productive week this week.

I read: The Kept Woman (doesn't count for a challenge, just came up for my library so I read it. It was pretty good.)

Ready Player One for both the book club on here, and as my "Book with an eccentric character". I don't think you get more eccentric than a billionaire hiding his fortune within an elaborate video game puzzle so complex it takes people 5 years to figure out even one piece. And 5 people who devote every minute of those 5 years to studying and researching to find the clues to solve the puzzle pieces.

Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction my book with a red spine, plus read harder's book of stories by a woman. Wasn't happy with this one. I thought it'd be a set of empowering stories about women. Instead they were kind of insipid and didn't go anywhere. Little diversity in the characters, and most of the stories revolved around relationships with men.

Redshirts I'm counting this one as a book set in two timelines. I really liked it. Not a Trekkie so i'm sure i missed a lot of references, but I got enough to chuckle. Well written and an interesting concept. Didn't love the codas at the end, but overall really good.

currently reading: Ancillary Justice Which will either count as my book from a nonhuman perspective (i'm not entirely clear at this point if the lead character ever was actually human, or if she's just trapped in a human body right now). If not, it'll be the first book of a series I haven't read before.

How about you all?

I finished off Nuts and have moved on to Us Conductors as my book that's been on my read list for way too long. The author and his book was the toast of Canadian literature a few years ago and is a fictionalized account of the man who invented the theremin and the role he played in providing a cover for Communist activities across Europe and the US after WW1 as well as his later activities in Russia. I'm only a few chapters in, but really enjoying it!

SabrielI'm about halfway through Between the World and Me as my book by a person of color. I'm also about halfway through my re-read of Sabriel, which I'm reading as 'a book you've read before that always makes you smile'. I mean, I'm not sure that it always makes me smile, but I really enjoy it, and I'm re-reading the whole series before diving into the newest book, so...2 birds, 1 stone.

I also managed to polish off How to Train Your Dragon as an audiobook, chosen pretty much only because it's narrated by David Tennant...

Still working on Us Conductors, but almost done! My next read will be Ready Player One as the book in a genre I don't normally read. It's my husband's copy--he read it last year and has been recommending it to everyone ever since, so I'm glad it was the first FoE book club book!