pickThis was an enthralling listen of Katherine‘s realisation that she was autistic and of receiving a formal diagnosis later on in life. She writes so precisely about her own experience of being autistic, motherhood, walking the South West Coast path, relationships with friends, her husband etc. It really drew me in. #10beforetheend
#10BeforeTheEnd - 3 Weeks In
I am 3 in, working slowly on Far From The Tree
Silly me I picked a lot of chunky books for this!
so-soThe good: there is some interesting information about the Soviet space programme.
The bad: the author is deeply, deeply biased against the Soviets. He can't admit that they ever did a single thing right.
Also, he snidely dismisses Wally Funk's space flight in a paragraph in which he gets the facts wrong. He claims she was below the threshold (the Kármán line, 100km), but Blue Origin peaked at 107 and WAS above the Kármán line.
A 667-pages roadtrip novel, with chapters alternating between a disillusioned “you“ mainly looking for young women to spend the night with (those sections haven't aged well), and a “I“ looking for what I'll sum up as “Eternal China“: folksongs, old monasteries, folktales... and of course, the Soul Mountain in the title. I am glad I read it -I enjoyed the folk chapters- but I am in no hurry to read any more from this #NobelPrize winner.
so-soInspector Amaia Salazar is called back to Basque Country, where she grew up, to lead the investigation of several killed young girls. So far so good. But there‘s a lot of folklore too and Tarot cards and nightmares leading her the way. It felt a bit too much, didn‘t really make sense to me.
#ReadTheWorld2025 #Spain #10BeforeTheEnd #5
pickA once in a generation mind. Coates is always a pick. In this Coates strings together ideas from his travels - the slave trade out of Senegal, current day book banning in S. Carolina, Palestine occupation, and he some how threads them into a coherent telling on oppression
His cadence always blows me away, and how he can take subjects and make them not only lyrical but impactful.
Such important insights here. Should be required reading
Joining the fun for the #37by37 Readathon hosted by @MatchlessMarie starting tomorrow and running till November 13. 😃
My goal is to finish these seven books, most of which will do double duty for other read alongs or challenges: #EBBR #NancyDrewBR #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub #10beforetheend #OffMyShelf
pickI‘ve wanted to read this for a long time so it was a great one for my #10BeforeTheEnd list this year. I really enjoyed it - three somewhat connected novellas set in NYC, revolving around investigative detectives and bizarre situations. I‘m not sure I could choose a favorite - they worked really well together and I never had any idea what was going to happen on the next page.
