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reading update 12/23/2021
GR Reading Challenge Progress: 87/85
The Jasmine Throne by Tashi Suri
I've only read the first 4 chapters so far, but I'm really liking it. I love it when books drop you into their worlds without any set-up, and so far I like the two POV characters and am curious to find out more about them. I can see why this was being repped alongside The Unbroken, it has a similar feel to it. I just hope I like the romance in this one better than Luca/Tourraine, which I did not vibe with at all.
Read:
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
5/5. This is my annual Christmas read. Personally, I hate Christmas, don't celebrate Christmas, spend a lot of the holiday season unhappy. (I'm a Pakistani ex-Muslim, so I have no childhood nostalgia about Santa or presents, just the annual irritation that we get two weeks off for Christmas/New Years but I missed out on perfect attendance every year because I had to take time off for Ramadan and Ashura.)
Hogfather is still one of my favorite books, ever. Death's climactic monologue, where he declares humans need myths and fairytales as children so we can believe in mercy and justice as adults, struck home with me. The idea that justice and mercy and aren't real--that they exist only because we make them exist--was formative for my thinking at a time where I was struggling to rebuild myself after leaving Islam. In a very real way this book saved me and I look forward to reading it every December. I'd put this in the top 5 Discworld novels for sure.
(Incidentally my top 5 Discworld would be like. Hogfather, Reaper Man, Night Watch, Thud!, The Truth)
Update:
Right now my goal for 2021 is to finish The Jasmine Throne so I can start 2022 with a fresh slate! If I have more time in this final week of the year, I'll reread Good Omens and then start The Councillor, because I have a hardcover copy and I want to be able to return it if I don't like it.
My other book-related task is to start putting together my 10 book shortlist for Jan 2022, because I bought a lot of books in November and December because of sales. My backlist is getting pretty hefty--I'd like to put a dent in it. There's also a lot of 2021 releases I didn't get to that I'd like to try to knock out early, because my TBR has so many 2022 releases on it that I also wanna read.
Current TBR:
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- The Councillor by E. J. Beaton
- The Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Jasmine Throne by Tashi Suri
I've only read the first 4 chapters so far, but I'm really liking it. I love it when books drop you into their worlds without any set-up, and so far I like the two POV characters and am curious to find out more about them. I can see why this was being repped alongside The Unbroken, it has a similar feel to it. I just hope I like the romance in this one better than Luca/Tourraine, which I did not vibe with at all.
Read:
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
5/5. This is my annual Christmas read. Personally, I hate Christmas, don't celebrate Christmas, spend a lot of the holiday season unhappy. (I'm a Pakistani ex-Muslim, so I have no childhood nostalgia about Santa or presents, just the annual irritation that we get two weeks off for Christmas/New Years but I missed out on perfect attendance every year because I had to take time off for Ramadan and Ashura.)
Hogfather is still one of my favorite books, ever. Death's climactic monologue, where he declares humans need myths and fairytales as children so we can believe in mercy and justice as adults, struck home with me. The idea that justice and mercy and aren't real--that they exist only because we make them exist--was formative for my thinking at a time where I was struggling to rebuild myself after leaving Islam. In a very real way this book saved me and I look forward to reading it every December. I'd put this in the top 5 Discworld novels for sure.
(Incidentally my top 5 Discworld would be like. Hogfather, Reaper Man, Night Watch, Thud!, The Truth)
Update:
Right now my goal for 2021 is to finish The Jasmine Throne so I can start 2022 with a fresh slate! If I have more time in this final week of the year, I'll reread Good Omens and then start The Councillor, because I have a hardcover copy and I want to be able to return it if I don't like it.
My other book-related task is to start putting together my 10 book shortlist for Jan 2022, because I bought a lot of books in November and December because of sales. My backlist is getting pretty hefty--I'd like to put a dent in it. There's also a lot of 2021 releases I didn't get to that I'd like to try to knock out early, because my TBR has so many 2022 releases on it that I also wanna read.