Reading Update

What My Mother And I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence, edited by Michele Filgate

I haven't read an essay collection in years. It's a well-written if harrowing one. Some of the writers have had really awful moms (and dads). The essays that had less ambiguous conclusions were kind of a relief, whether from terminated relationships, death, or a happy relationship. Favourites were Alexander Chee's, Carmen Maria Machado's, and Melissa Febos's.

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

I was as appropriately entertained as I expected to be by time-travelling agents on opposite sides writing letters to each other and then falling in love. Felt like it operated on a sort of dream-logic and dream-description. Not a criticism, more that it was easier to be occupied by the atmosphere than the details, and so there were a couple of times I forgot what upthread/downthread meant and waited a chapter to be reminded, haha.

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