Pachinko-Historical fiction novel by Min Jin Lee. The book chronicles four generations of a Korean family from 1910-1989, starting with the Japanese occupation of Korea and the family's subsequent move to Japan during that time. I became curious about the book when I heard about the Apple tv series being made about it.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles- Haruki Murakami, read Kafka on the Shore years ago in 2011-2012 when I was living in Taiwan taking mandarin language classes and really liked it, so once I saw the English translation of this one at a local bookstore a while back, I just went ahead and bought it.

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

Heist Society by Ally Carter

I barely read these days. Something about uni just ruined it for me. But this week I actually finished two books, and I'm so jazzed.

Powered through Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, which I've read before and absolutely loved. Then polished off The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins. It wasn't as good as The Moonstone but it wasn't bad, and it was a pretty quick read as well, which helped.

Hoping my attention span lasts long enough to finish Breakfast at Tiffany's. I loved the movie, and I've heard the book is even better.

I'm a Terry Pratchett FIEND! All of my Subeta shops are Discworld-themed.

My mentor from undergrad wrote her PhD dissertation on women and the law in Victorian literature, and she told us numerous times that The Moonstone was her favorite book. I read it back around 2016 or so.

I made it a New Year's resolution to always have a book to read this year, and I'm currently on number 15, I think? Not as many as I hoped to be through by this time, but at least I'm reading. I finished The Lies of Locke Lamora (LOVED. IT.) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (recommended by a bookish friend), then started on some nonficiton. Did Me Talk Pretty One Day, and now I'm in the middle of a short true-crime spree featuring Killers of the Flower Moon, Furious Hours, and Devil in the White City.

Oooh I started The Lies of Locke Lamora about a year back and never finished it. I was enjoying it, but I think I got too busy at one point and I'm one of those people who forgets about things the second they're out of sight. I really should give it a go.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is on my endless 'to read' list as well, lol. Did you enjoy it?

The Moonstone is definitely worth reading if you like detective stories, in my opinion. Not just because it's basically the originator of the genre, but just because it's a really cool story written in a really interesting way. The different sections of the story are narrated by different characters, all of whom are involved in the mystery in some way - some just on the outskirts, some trying to solve it, and some actually directly party to it. Sometimes the same scene will be covered by multiple characters, so you get a different physical perspective of the scene (because one person arrived later or earlier than others, or because they were standing in a different spot so their view took in different details), but you also get very different interpretations of the same events and of other characters. Also, you don't get the stupid Holmes thing where the last page has the savant detective solve the case with a clue that the reader never got to see.

Search History by Eugene Lim.

Dragon Avenger by E. E. Knight. Re-reading the entire Age of Fire series again, actually :)

currently reading Devil House by John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats!).

i loved his previous books that i've read (Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester) and i've wanted to read this forever i just have garbo concentration but i finally picked it up and it's REAL good. it's about true crime media and spectacle and it just. Hits

I just finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (for probably the sixth or seventh time) and I'm moving on to the next book in the series, called The Boleyn Inheritance.

Passing by Nella Larsen.

The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir

harry potter and the deathly hallows

Shadow of the Fox-Julie Kagawa

Volume 5 of Oyasumi Punpun c:

gallant by v.e. schwab!

and I just picked up before your memory fades - toshikazu kawaguchi, the author of before the coffee gets cold.