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I wish I could proudly hold up my head and say that I used my time wisely and read the classics, read books that challenged and delighted me. And there was some of that. I added Asian / Pan-Pacific Heritage Month to my reading list (America is in the Heart, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, one I’ve not quite finished yet called Sharks in the Time of Saviors) as well as Pride month because no one’s getting out there for a parade (Not My Father’s Son, Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman, Miss Jane). And there’s even a Nobel Literature Prize winner on the list (Blindness). But there’s a lot of books just to get me through the blank squares in the calendar. I sometimes try to convince myself that I’m on a spaceship to Mars because I think that’s what this is like.
My favorite book of this 3 month slice of time was The Lost Book of Adana Moreau which is a beautiful poetic meditation on how little we know each other and ourselves and, if you were standing here, I would thrust it into your hands and say, read it!
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Philips
- The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
- Vessel by Lisa Nichols
- Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
- Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1) by Eoin Colfer
- Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman
- The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published by David Skinner
- America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
- Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
- Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
- Miss Jane by Brad Watson
- Blindness by José Saramago
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