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Wants to read The Fated Sky

Rated Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour – A Hilarious Comedy Memoir of Youthful Travel, Growing Pains, and Sharp Humor 8/10

The trouble with reading an excellent, supremely funny book is that I could probably read the whole thing aloud to passerby (though some of it not while small, parroting children are present), and as such, I could flip open just about any page and excerpt it here. Shukert never falls into the navel-gazing, “look how important and witty I am” trap that other memorists might — she is who she is, and that’s how she writes. It’s refreshing, having an author talk about both good times and also the most embarrassing, since any good writer knows that the humiliating stuff is really just more writing fodder.<br><br><br>This is not a group-hug, Elizabeth Gilbert-style memoir, and the world is better for it.<br><br><br>(Full review can be found at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/09/everything-is-going-to-be-great-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Finished reading Permafrost

Finished reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Finished reading Winter’s Orbit

Finished reading The Adventure Zone Vol. 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

Rated Torchwood: The Crown 10/10

<div>I very much enjoy the Queen Victoria installments of Torchwood. This is a good spooky Christmas Eve story.</div>

Wants to read Father's Day

Rated Finbar's Hotel 8/10

Ah, collective loneliness and anxiety about life. Enjoyed this. Worth returning it late to the library.

Rated Gallifrey: Echoes Through Eternity 8/10

<div>Very much enjoyed this series of short trips for the 20th Anniversary of the Gallifrey series at Big Finish. It really is one of their best spin-offs. I haven't heard all the Time War sets, but all the ones previous are among my faves.</div>

Rated The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter 10/10

Wants to read Inversion: Germinal, Book 1

Wants to read Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin [Golden Deer Classics]

Finished reading Beneath the Rising

Finished reading A Canticle for Leibowitz

Wants to read Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

Finished reading The Siege of Burning Grass

Finished reading The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man's Wife

Finished reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Rated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 10/10

Rated The Collapse of Complex Societies 8/10

Finished reading A Broken Darkness

Wants to read Forever the People: 6 Months on the Road With Oasis

Rated Filthy Animals 8/10

<div>I liked this a lot, though I admit to some discomfort with some of the violence. And that feels sort of intentional, theme-wise, which is fine. Ymmv</div>

Wants to read Mexican Gothic