This post is being scheduled instead of published immediately, as an experiment! A while ago, Jetpack stopped sending emails when I scheduled posts, despite working fine when I manually published them. Let’s find out if that’s still the case or if they’ve fixed their bug…

What have you recently finished reading?

Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail, a collection of prose-poems which drove me up the wall. Each one is a handful of scattered imagery linked by non-sequiturs, and I hated finding it perfectly readable and at the same time totally incomprehensible.

Before that, it was Nicola Whyte’s Murder Like Clockwork, which I found serviceable but not compelling. My review is already up here.

What are you currently reading?

I just started qntm’s There is No Antimemetics Division, which I requested from the library more or less on a whim and started today on even more of a whim. I find the idea mindboggling and possibly like it’s going to trigger existential dread, and I’m very curious how it plays out.

I have quite a lot of other books on the go, but the other thing I’m most actively reading is Stephanie Boonstra and Campbell Price’s Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries, which I got at the Petrie Museum and is scratching my itch for histories that are X in Y objects.

I also very recently started Gareth Russell’s Queen James, but I’m not far into it.

What will you be reading next?

Nobody knows, particularly not me. I have a bunch of books on the go already, so I’ll probably focus on some of that, like reading more of Queen James. My DoubleSpin choice for the Litsy BookSpin challenge is S.L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws, though, so perhaps that?