What are you reading these days?

I was a bit more scattershot this time around.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was an utter bore. The primary issue is how much of it relies on the mystery which everyone knows about now.

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain was good, I lost interest a bit towards the end, but I quite enjoyed Twain’s writing and class analysis.

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was beautifully written, it’s hard for me to believe that a child could read this considering the vocabulary used.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was great too, I was never assigned it in high school and it was a fun and easy read.

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han was bad. I understand it’s a YA romance novel, but the movie elevated the material for sure. And it made everyone significantly more likable. In the book I don’t understand why the characters like each other.

Finally I tried reading Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash since it garnered controversy as a dimes square adjacent book that Dua Lipa promoted in her book club. And I stopped roughly a quarter in. The prose itself was piss poor and sloppy, it felt like very little editing or re-writing was done. And it was far too irony poisoned and extremely online for it to be an enjoyable read for me. It was very annoying. It made Mona Awad’s writing look like James Joyce.

And I’m currently reading The Suffering by David Sodergren which is so far pretty good.

Someone here (I think) mentioned The Sky So Big and Black and got me curious, I dig the story so far, with around 40% read, there are many open questions and amazing world-building, I like how tangible their practices are goals are, the author really put the effort in figuring out what an "ecospector" has to be.