Reading Update

Imogen, Obviously | The Return of The Native | The Obelisk Gate

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

YA novel by the author of Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda. I didn’t read that book but I did watch Love, Simon back when it was released in theatres and my main thought across the two works is god these teens are so stressed that I get second-hand stressed.

Also our poor protagonist really needs to Log Off. Never have I wanted a protagonist to delete social media more.

The plot goes as follows: Imogen, #StraightAlly, is visiting her childhood best friend, Lily, at college. Only Lily, embarrassed at her own lack of romantic experience, has told all of her friends that Imogen is her ex. Imogen agrees to go along with it, first having a internal crisis over The Ethics of Pretending To Be Queer, and then has a realization or two when thrust into a social context where no one thinks she’s straight.

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Got reminded to read Leah on the Offbeat sometime.

The Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy

Much heath such plants wow. Lady did not actually do affair but she almost did so time to die lady goodbye.

I mean that basically summarizes it. I will say, though, out of the “lady does affair back in the day” books I’ve read, I found something compelling in Eustacia Vye that I did not in Bovary or Anna Karenina. Perhaps it is the nature of her selfishness. The men themselves are not her goal but that they can convey her to somewhere other than the dreary heath, to Budmouth or even Paris. (It is definitely not that she doesn’t actually have an affair, I don’t care about that.)

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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

Hmmmm does some interesting character stuff, but the style started to grate as did the plot. Ultimately liked the first book in the series more. I am curious to see how things end in the final book.

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