{"id":529,"date":"2020-10-01T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2020-10-01T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T02:17:18","slug":"reading-log-jul-sep-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Reading Log – Jul-Sep 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a few books to recommend this quarter: Outliers: The Story of Success<\/em> by Malcolm Gladwell, which was recommended to me by my brother & a very enjoyable read; The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper<\/em> by Hallie Rubenhold, a thoroughly researched and well written refutation of the idea that all of the Ripper’s victims were prostitutes; Recursion<\/em> by Blake Crouch, scifi at it’s best; The Starless Sea<\/em> by Erin Morgenstern, blurring the lines between poetry & prose in an absolutely beautiful, dreamy way; and The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are<\/em> by Libby Copeland for a look at some of the realities of taking a DNA test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also finally read something by Piers Anthony – the first Xanth novel. Anthony was a prolific scifi\/fantasy writer & often features on recommended lists… but he won’t be appearing on mine. Hard pass! Sexist AF, and super creepy to boot. After finishing the book, I googled him and turns out he has published some truly horrific stuff, basically pedophilia. So, um, yeah. No thanks. And the Xanth novels are supposed to be funny fantasy, but they really aren’t. Give your kids\/teens something by Terry Pratchett instead, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diggers, Hatters & Whores<\/em> by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Saint Odd<\/em> by Dean Koontz
Dreamhunter<\/em> by Elizabeth Knox
Dreamquake<\/em> by Elizabeth Knox
All Systems Red<\/em> by Martha Wells
Artificial Condition<\/em> by Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol<\/em> by Martha Wells
Exit Strategy<\/em> by Martha Wells
A Madness of Angels<\/em> by Kate Griffin
The Midnight Mayor<\/em> by Kate Griffin
Eat Pray Love<\/em> by Elizabeth Gilbert
How to Be an Antiracist<\/em> by Ibran X. Kendi
The Fire Starter Sessions<\/em> by Danielle LaPorte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outliers<\/em> by Malcolm Gladwell
White Fragility<\/em> by Robin DiAngelo
Tracing Your Canal Ancestors<\/em> by Sue Wilkes
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself<\/em> by Joe Dispenza
Harrow the Ninth<\/em> by Tamsyn Muir
Year\u2019s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy<\/em> ed. by Marie Hodgkinson
The Deathless<\/em> by Peter Newman
The Radleys<\/em> by Matt Haig
The Five<\/em> by Hallie Rubenhold
Is 5<\/em> by e.e. cummings
Recursion<\/em> by Blake Crouch
Call Down the Hawk<\/em> by Maggie Stiefvater
City of Ghosts<\/em> by Victoria Schwab
The Never Tilting World<\/em> by Rin Chupeco
La Belle Sauvage<\/em> by Philip Pullman
The Forgetting<\/em> by Sharon Cameron
Before She Ignites<\/em> by Jodi Meadows
Beasts Made of Night<\/em> by Tochi Onyebuchi
The Black God\u2019s Drums<\/em> by P. Djeli Clark
The Starless Sea<\/em> by Erin Morgenstern
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South<\/em> by Rgula Ysewijn
Qualify<\/em> by Vera Nazarian
Untamed<\/em> by Glennon Doyle
Tunnel of Bones<\/em> by Victoria Schwab
Paging the Dead<\/em> by Brynn Bonner
Dead in a Flash<\/em> by Brynn Bonner
Picture Them Dead<\/em> by Brynn Bonner
Wolf Speaker<\/em> by Tamora Pierce
As She Ascends<\/em> by Jodi Meadows
When She Reigns<\/em> by Jodi Meadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ruthless<\/em> by Peter Newman
All His Pretty Girls<\/em> by Charly Cox
The Asylum<\/em> by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
What Lies Beneath<\/em> by Elspeth Sandys
Three Women<\/em> by Lisa Taddeo
You Are Destined to Be Together Forever<\/em> by Dean Koontz
The Dutch House<\/em> by Ann Patchett
The Cloud Roads<\/em> by Martha Wells
Noughts & Crosses<\/em> by Malorie Blackman
Honor Among Thieves<\/em> by Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre
Honor Bound<\/em> by Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre
The Disasters<\/em> by M. K. England
A Spell for Chameleon<\/em> by Piers Anthony
2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> by Arthur C. Clarke
Meet Me in the Future<\/em> by Kameron Hurley
Sisters of the Vast Black<\/em> by Lina Rather
His Dark Materials<\/em> by Philip Pullman
The Secret Commonwealth<\/em> by Philip Pullman
Rise Sister Rise<\/em> by Rebecca Campbell
Committed<\/em> by Elizabeth Gilbert
Emperor Mage<\/em> by Tamora Pierce
Umbrella Academy Vol. 1<\/em> by Gerard Way
Stop Surviving Start Fighting<\/em> by Jazz Thornton
The Desire Map<\/em> by Danielle LaPorte
Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy<\/em> by Nick Barratt
Getting Started: Who Do You Think You Are<\/em> by Laura Berry
Creating Sanctuary<\/em> by Jessi Bloom
Captain Marvel Vol. 1<\/em> by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Bitch Planet Vol. 1<\/em> by Kelly Sue DeConnick
The Lost Family<\/em> by Libby Copeland
The Stranger in My Genes<\/em> by Bill Griffeth
Hench<\/em> by Natalie Zina Walschots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

75 in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a few books to recommend this quarter: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, which was recommended to me by my brother & a very enjoyable read; The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold, a thoroughly researched and well written refutation of the … Continue reading “Reading Log – Jul-Sep 2020”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,7,5],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-42","tag-books","tag-reading-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}