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Hello Everyone,

Happy Independence Day to everyone in the US and Happy Canada Day this week to anyone in Canada. I hope everyone is enjoying any holidays, time off and the weekend wherever you are.

I finished Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America. I learned a lot. It is interesting that some of these "recognize women who have been overlooked" books now have overlapping content. For instance this book also talks about Elizabeth Packard. Granted it is just a short chapter compared to the entire biography from Kate Moore in The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear.

I finished listening to The Days Before Us and started Deluge which are both from the Good Intentions short stories from Amazon. These are great stories about an hour long. I've become a fan of these collections.

I am back to reading Veridian Sterling Fakes It on my kindle. I'm about 3/4 of the way through and feeling this is a pretty average book. If I cared or knew much about art (as in paintings) I might enjoy it more.

QOTW:
Would you rather read one book per year and remember everything, or read 100 books and remember nothing?

I am definitely in the "read 100 books and remember nothing" because that is kind of what I am already! My husband just finished Replay which I read/listened to a month or two ago and already I don't remember the details or the exact order. He recalls so many more details after finishing.

I guess I use books to enjoy in the moment or escape and don't dedicate my brain for recall.

I had a half day on Wednesday and then Thursday and Friday off, so
that was nice.

Not Quite Narwhal - Cute pictures, but kind of a meh story in my opinion. (I feel a bit silly saying that about books for small children, but some of them I do like, so...)

The Feats of Sherlock Holmes - Why do I keep reading books with weird punctuation? This is a collection of serviceable Holmes pastiches with highly idiosyncratic punctuation. The one that really got me was the frequent use of "all-the-same" (which does not appear with or without hyphens in the original canon; I checked).

QOTW: I'm with you on this one. Some books are more memorable that others, but there are plenty of mystery novels I've read but couldn't tell you whodunnit. It would be a bit sad for nonfiction, since I wouldn't learn any new facts about black holes or beavers or whatever.

Finished:
Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi - not currently for a prompt. Meh. I really loved the first book in this trilogy, but didn't care for the second or third one. This felt very rushed - all action, action, action, with no room for the characters to breathe.

Comics and manga:
Oshi No Ko , Vol. 6
Akane-banashi, Vol. 6

Currently reading:
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty - for Popsugar's book about pirates.

Upcoming/Planned:
The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 2 - not for a prompt.

QOTW:
I suppose I'd also go for the 100 books a year. Although I don't like not remembering, it's closest to how I read now.

My family is out of town without me (by my choice) and I have the house to myself this week - it's lovely! So quiet and I've gotten some good decluttering done.

Last week's reads:
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan, a lovely fairy tale based on an old Chinese legend. I've just downloaded the sequel to read next.

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which I loved just as much as her other books. It was refreshing to read about siblings who were genuinely devoted to one another despite their different paths in life.

The Running Girls by Matt Brolly, picked at random from the selection of assorted free books I have downloaded on my kindle. Good page-turner.

Then I spent the last few days re-reading an old favorite series, Rings of the Master by Jack L. Chalker. Late 80s pulp SF at its best. If that appeals, they're a lot of fun.

QotW:
Oh, definitely 100 books without remembering them. I totally agree with Susan that I'm generally looking for escape when I read, and I don't necessarily care if I don't remember much about a book later on. It makes it more fun to re-read down the road!