What have you recently finished reading?
Devi Sridhar’sĀ Preventable, a book about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic completed/published in 2022, which makes it off-base on a number of things (e.g. basically commenting that Trump’s hate on for the WHO doesn’t matter at all and was just words). I found it a bit too “yup, let’s get back to normal” at the end, particularly given that she assumes that’s possible because of vaccination… which is no longer widely or freely available in the UK. But mostly it was a pretty good look at the initial situation.
What are you currently reading?
I just startedĀ History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts,Ā by Robert Bartlett, which I just got today as a birthday present! Not very far into it yet, but I might finish it today — it’s not very long.
Other than that, I have a few books on the backburner, but nothing else at the forefront of my mind. I do want to finish Lex Croucher’sĀ Gwen and Art are Not in Love, Laura Spinney’sĀ Proto, T. Kingfisher’sĀ Paladin’s Strength,Ā Caitlin Rozakis’Ā The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association,Ā Victoria Shepherd’sĀ Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside and Molly Conisbee’s No Ordinary Deaths, because they’re all on my August Book Spin list on Litsy, but we’ll see, that’s a lot!
What will you be reading next?
Probably I’ll start my reread of the third volume ofĀ The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, as a birthday treat. Since I have the day off, I might finish up with that, in which case I might start one of my new books — Carwyn Graves’ Tir: The Story of the Welsh LandscapeĀ is calling to me, or maybe Rachel Harrison’sĀ Cackle — or start on a book that’s been on my backlog for a while, Margaret Elphinstone’sĀ The Sea Road.
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That book on Medieval manuscripts sounds great!
Last #book I finished: Yuko-Chan and the Daruma Doll, by Sunny Seki
#Amreading: The Last Express (Duncan Maclain Mystery #1), by Baynard H. Kendrick
#Amlistening to: Les Ombres du monde, by Michel Bussi
#TBR Reading next: Les Doigts rouges, by Keigo Higashino
I’m not very far into it, but enjoying it so far!
Oh~ I read History in Flames as an ARC and never posted my long review to my own blog (I did to NetGalley). It was pretty good, even if he’s a little ivory tower sometimes, and while he was willing to understand that yeah, peasants would want to burn landlords’ proof of “ownership”, he didn’t extend that to the Irish. There’s just a couple moments where I went, “your Englishman is showing”.