June 2021 Reading Wrap-Up

It's difficult. It's not an easy read. Very, very beautifully written.

At Night All Blood Is Black is a really incredible novel. It's a hard-hitter, and it tells the story of a Senegalese soldier who joins the French army during World War I, and it's a book about toxic masculinity rather than camaraderie.

This is a very, very important, necessary book for right now, for any time until change, real, drastic change, is done on a global scale.

Almost exactly a year ago, Kawakami put out in translation by Sam Bett and David Boyd, Breasts and Eggs, which was my favorite book of 2020.

I'm about 150 pages in and really enjoying it. It is long, though, very dense, but very beautifully written.

This is going to be at the top of my list of favorite books of this year. I don't know if it'll be number one. We're only halfway through the year.

It doesn't really give a lot of actionable advice to the world on how we could change things, but I appreciated her memoir and I really appreciated how much I related to it because I felt a lot less alone as a person who gets so intimidated by masculinity in general.

Mrs. England was a lovely, lovely read, but I really don't want to talk about it too much because next month I'll be doing a dedicated video on all of the most recent historical fiction that I've been enjoying, and this is one of them.

The Reader's Room is very charming. It was written by Antoine Laurain. I didn't mention that, and it was translated by three different people at Gallic Books, and I'll put all of their names here.

I still really enjoyed this book. It's pretty big and I did say in my video it could have been a bit shorter, but the pros hugely outweighed the cons. I thought this was such a wonderful world to live in, such a fantastic story with just enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and keep you turning the pages.

I loved it. I really, really loved The Membranes. It's a fantastic piece of science-fiction.

I really, really enjoyed this book. It a lovely start to the month.