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How to Hide an Empire

by Daniel Immerwahr

Finished 2020-02-02
The City in the Middle of the Night

by Charlie Jane Anders

Finished 2020-01-19
Assassin's Apprentice

by Robin Hobb

Finished 2020-01-09
I Let You Go

by Clare Mackintosh

Finished 2019-12-30

3.5 stars maybe. I think it was well-told. The arc of the story, in the end, wasn’t that exceptional, and Spoilerthe gist of the incident in question was pretty clear well before the end, so the big reveal wasn’t that big but it was interesting and kept me curious from start to finish.
The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

Finished 2019-12-22
The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

Finished 2019-12-20

Ooh boy it gets very heavy-handed at the end. But I do appreciate how Pullman refuses to pigeonhole his characters and to wrap most things up with a tidy bow—characters who were antagonists early on show some goodness, perhaps even redeeming goodness, and not everybody gets what they want in the end. The wrap-up is full of messaging that I liked but which I suppose I wish were a bit more subtle.
The Changeling

by Victor LaValle

Finished 2019-12-20

I think I might have liked this a bit more if I had read it rather than listening to the Audible audiobook, which doubled down on the author’s very simple, matter-of-fact writing style with a very simple, matter-of-fact narrator. It really stripped the magic from the telling. But the story it told was interesting and generally unlike a lot of the other books I’ve been reading—not sure how much of that is how unique this book is and how much of it is that I just don’t read a ton of magical realism.
All the Birds in the Sky

by Charlie Jane Anders

Finished 2019-12-11
Repeat

by Neal Pollack

Finished 2019-12-07
Silver on the Tree

by Susan Cooper

Finished 2019-12-03
In an Absent Dream

by Seanan McGuire

Finished 2019-12-01
Something in the Water

by Catherine Steadman

Finished 2019-12-01
Black Sun Rising

by C.S. Friedman

Finished 2019-11-25
The Burning White

by Brent Weeks

Finished 2019-11-08
Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

Finished 2019-10-26

I enjoyed it as I was reading it but it feels like only part of a story? I’m going to have to read Parable of the Talents to see if it completes it in a satisfying way. There was no real arc in this—perhaps a rising action, but maybe it rises to something in the sequel.

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How to Hide an Empire

The City in the Middle of the Night

Assassin's Apprentice

I Let You Go

The Fountainhead

The Amber Spyglass

The Changeling

All the Birds in the Sky

Repeat

Silver on the Tree

In an Absent Dream

Something in the Water

Black Sun Rising

The Burning White

Parable of the Sower