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Reading Update
Jul. 31st, 2021 02:42 pmRapid-fire round.
In the Heights: Finding Home by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, Jeremy McCarter
Great read for fans of the musical, fun to see how it all came together and what got changed along the way.
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
I especially liked Hiram's relationships with Thena and Sophia here, though the ending was a bit of an awkward split for me.
The Secret To Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
The main thrust of the book isn't my thing but the way Bechdel does comics continues to really work for me and so I enjoyed that.
Regrettable Things That Happened Yesterday by Jennani Durai
A collection of ten short stories all tangentially related to newspapers in some way or the other. Some of them were short to the point of my dissatisfaction, but I generally liked them all. Particular favorites were the first one, and the modern AU Tenali Raman one.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England by Daniel Pool
What it says on the tin. As someone who knows zero English history, I found it usefully illuminating about the stuff I couldn't derive from context clues/osmosis alone.
In the Heights: Finding Home by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, Jeremy McCarter
Great read for fans of the musical, fun to see how it all came together and what got changed along the way.
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
I especially liked Hiram's relationships with Thena and Sophia here, though the ending was a bit of an awkward split for me.
The Secret To Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
The main thrust of the book isn't my thing but the way Bechdel does comics continues to really work for me and so I enjoyed that.
Regrettable Things That Happened Yesterday by Jennani Durai
A collection of ten short stories all tangentially related to newspapers in some way or the other. Some of them were short to the point of my dissatisfaction, but I generally liked them all. Particular favorites were the first one, and the modern AU Tenali Raman one.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England by Daniel Pool
What it says on the tin. As someone who knows zero English history, I found it usefully illuminating about the stuff I couldn't derive from context clues/osmosis alone.