January 2022 Reading Wrap-Up

We read Akata Warrior together a couple of years ago. I think that was like, oh my god, 2018. It's been a while. We really loved that book and we were excited to read this one together.

So I super enjoyed this. I found the quest of this to be really satisfying. I loved the development of that story and the new parts of the world and perhaps other worlds that we get to see.

I love this series. These are my favorite books by Nnedi Okorafor.

I loved Binti, enjoyed Lagoon, etc.

So I really enjoyed it but like pretty much every other short form work that I've read by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it wasn't really long enough to fully satisfyingly develop all these big ideas. So I liked it but it could have been twice as long and it would have been even better.

I read his little Food Rules book, which I actually keep in my kitchen with my cookbooks. It's all about like what is food, what are some rules for eating real food well. I really like that.

I would highly recommend both of these stories, Hither Page and The Missing Page, even if you're not like into romance, for example. This just like view this as a mystery series with a queer couple at the center of it.

I would definitely recommend this. I thought it was really fun and really educational.

I loved Binti, enjoyed Lagoon, etc.

So this was really well written. I super enjoyed it. It was almost a five star read and I'm currently in the middle of the sequel which is also very good.

So, it was a fun little read, but I don't think I'm going to remember much of it down the road.

And that contemplation of hands, of work, of the physical things that people make and build and everything, was really interesting. Never would have thought that I would enjoy a poetry collection about this, but I really I really liked it.

And it was also a really satisfying mystery that did not go the way that I thought it was going to. I thought it was going to be like a really classic murder mystery over like money or something, and it just it was not about that. And I really liked the conclusion to it.

So, the book was kind of a bumpy ride for me. I also sometimes felt like I didn't quite understand what Michael Pollan's attitude was towards food consumers.

So a lot of this book was very enjoyable. I liked the romantic aspect of it a lot because that was cute but the rest of it just irritated me a lot more than I thought it should.