A reading catch-up.... | March 19, 2023

so this was cute it was definitely funny and yeah I don't have much more to say about it than that so it was it was a good time and it lives up to the very clever title

however I did read growing up weightless by John M Ford recently and this was a very interesting read especially now that I've had time to think about the book more

I definitely took a lot from some of the advice and some of the kind of exercises that Davis suggests doing to kind of reshape your relationship with your housekeeping and make it manageable and just to work for you better like I said I think this is kind of freeing or at least that was the experience for me so I highly recommend this

I love this book sometimes you start reading something that's been super hyped and it just Falls flat and you feel terrible I was so worried that was gonna happen with Legends and lattes but actually no this hit the spot there's a reason why people love this book it is so good

Christy's writing style is quite lucid and simple it's not like super colloquial or anything so it was easy to follow what was going on and to kind of get into the flow of the story so once I got past the first couple of chapters and I kind of figured out the vocabulary that was going to be used it was quite an easy read so I enjoyed this

I also read the Bedlam Stacks a couple of years ago and also really enjoyed it

I do think that narration kind of got lost near the end of the book and then it wrapped up in this sort of sappy sweet way where everything is okay and that was a little bit of a letdown but nevertheless it achieved its point which was to be cute and low stakes and a nice read so for that I would recommend it

I read this for a book club and I was very glad that I did so this is definitely a winner I would definitely recommend reading

it's really about the relationships that humans can have with octopuses and just how intelligent they are and how much personality an individual octopus has and that is why I wanted to read this book it definitely delivered in that way

I enjoyed this installment it continues to be good but this volume was noticeably a bit shorter than previous ones I'm not sure why and it wasn't quite as like I don't know emotionally impactful as the previous one had been it was a four star read not like five stars wow things are happening with a story so still good but it was kind of hard to top volume nine

this was really lovely I'm so glad that I Tried reading it I would definitely recommend it if you want something that's got that gentle kind of cozy feel to it