I haven't done one of these in a while, because real life is crazy right now. But when I can, I'm sharing images of books I like! I recently picked up and devoured this graphic novel memoir of a "Banned Book Club" in 1983 South Korea. That was the period of the country's dictatorial Fifth Republic prior to democratization. I got this book somehow ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm writing about a book I like. Hey, remember when we could go places for realsies? Those were good times. Michener is remembered mostly for his novels, especially Sayonara and Hawaii, but I like his nonfiction, and Iberia is my favorite. (Btw he also wrote an investigative book on the Kent State Massacre that as far as I can tell ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. I'm feeling all edges and angles today, so here's a fun novel with a protagonist who is 1000% done with everyone and everything. Lackey's Gwenhwyfar can be read as a sort of reply to Bradley's The Mists of Avalon given the emphasis on the Welsh setting and particularly the spelling of Gwen's ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. I'm cheating today because I found this nice collage of the series. I went through a mega-Meg Cabot phase in the early 2000s when I was working on my masters and when, frankly, life sucked. But Cabot churned out volume after volume of cheerful, funny reads, and that really did help me get ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. I finished reading this heavy biography after Christmas; it had a bit of a controversy around it since Moser claims that Sontag likely ghostwrote her ex-husband's most famous book, along with various other credits to his name. Mostly the book tries to combine biography and intellectual history ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. Holland (who I know isn't the actor who plays Spider-Man, and yet I find it delightful to imagine him that way) retreads the familiar ground of the Julio-Claudians, but recontextualizes them as being more like the mafia than august emperors. He's also not inaccurate in that assessment, and ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. L'Engle's books are some classic comfort reads for me, because they are so delightfully weird and sincerely buy-in to that weird. Many Waters is my personal fave of the Wrinkle in Time Quartet because time travel, women of the Bible, and also all the angel sex that is hinted at but doesn't ( Read more... )

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. Today's book is funnily enough one of my favorite cookbooks. I got it for funsies and then it turns out it actually has good recipes, divided by skill level (!). It's on my mind today because it has been A Day and I think when I get off work I'm going to make the red bean buns in here, not ( Read more... )

 Every day I'm sharing an image of a book I like. Y'all know I'm a Captain America stan, and this is one of my favorite series from the comics, written following the declassification of documents of the Tuskegee Experiments. Going back and forth between the 1940s and the "now" of the early 2000s, Cap uncovers the story of the first Captain America ( Read more... )

 Every day I'm sharing an image of a book I like. I'm almost done reading this one and am enjoying it so. much! It's being advertised as a steampunk fantasy play on Sherlock Holmes--which it is--but it's also doing a ton of clever things besides. (I really want to geek out more but some of the twists are such delightful surprises that I also don't ( Read more... )