#also i read crying in h mart on my then-newly acquired e-reader and my god what a difference

[thequietchorusgirl]

9 and 17 for the book asks!

9 - Did you get into any new genres?

ooh, good question. magical realism, i think! (nights at the circus by angela carter)

other than that i think prooobably literary fiction - though that's more an increase this year than a completely new thing; l'étranger (albert camus), heureux les heureux (yasmina reza), petit pays (gaël faye) to name a few.

17 - Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

oh my god crying in h mart (michelle zauner) fucking blew me away. i picked it up à la 'oh cool this musician i like wrote a book!' and i'm still sitting here periodically thinking about it so much like weeks after i've finished it and being just like i NEED to get a copy for my bookshelf.

also this is how you lose the time war (amal el-mohtar & max gladstone). i'd had a couple of false starts trying to read it (pain of trying to read ebooks on your phone screen) but once i really got into it i was SO enamoured with it. also god it made me cry. and that one now has a copy sitting on my bookshelf :)