#the translation was uninspired and i have a very limited interest to read about romance sex and separation
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Read in February
Favourite cover of the month:
Books finished:
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elisabeth Barrett Browning (poetry) ★★★☆☆
Migrant Farmers by Dorothea Lange (non fiction, photography) ★★★★★
Bluets by Maggie Nelson (non fiction, memoir) ★☆☆☆☆
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (non fiction, true crime) ★★★★☆
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich (non fiction, environment and history) ★★★★☆
Tallulah's Solo by Marylin Singer (fiction, children picture book) ★★★★☆
Still reading:
Permanent record by Edward Snowden (non fiction, memoir)
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal (non fiction, science)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (fiction, classics)
Educated by Tara Westover (non fiction, memoir)
The living mountain by Nan Sheperd (non fiction, memoir, nature)
The Rift by Nina Allan (fiction, science-fiction)
To read:
The horizon is on fire: Five Russian Poets of the 20th Century: Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvétaïéva, Brodsky
De Brevitate Vitae by Seneca (non fiction, philosophy)
De Vita Beata by Seneca (non fiction, philosophy)
The Fate of the Universe by Jean-Pierre Luminet (non fiction, science)
#on my nightstand#currently reading#i totally fail to bring a black author to the mix#and i feel bad about it#it was mostly a non fiction month and i felt the absence of true literature strongly few times in the month#i wasn't really in the mood to read the tenant of wildfell hall while i was very hungry for more fictional stories#and while i didn't want to start a new book#the combination of the three contradictions was very frustrating#maggie nelson was a major disappointement: i can barely remember Bluets.#to be honest the french publisher made comparisons taht were completely out of place (with Pascal a major classic french philosopher)#the translation was uninspired and i have a very limited interest to read about romance sex and separation#but even so i can't shake the feeling that the writing was random#thankfully losing earth and mr Whicher made compulsive reading#i didn't want to stop reading them#two addictive books methodically constructed and very well documented which brought history under a new light
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