Mimi

3.5, maybe. It is hot and right now I'm not motivated to read much of anything other than British mysteries. Unbelievably, there are 19 of them in this series. Should last me for a while.

I didn't read Harriet the Spy until I was an adult, and knew nothing about Louise Fitzhugh before reading this biography. Glad to say she was a woman worth reading about.

Loved this book. Who knows, though, when we'll get to swim again?

Was going to read just a few pages this morning, but ended up reading the whole book. Because who doesn't like Alex Trebek? And it's surprisingly current, wrapping up with life in COVID-19 quarantine.

A frequently banned book for the Read Harder Challenge. Yikes–hard to read (shallow yuppies, violence, torture, admiration for Donald Trump), but deserving of the many academic articles written about it (as seen in JSTOR!).

Possibly the best of the Seasonal quartet. But I just may have to read them all again to be sure.

For Read Harder Challenge #11, Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character. I liked this short little book–the style reminded me a lot of Becky Chambers.

Meh.

Airplane read. I liked it.

Another book best read slowly.

For Read Harder Challenge #16: Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes. (i.e., YA). Loved it.

Clever.

Love all the books in this series.

Enjoyed the narrative sections. I am not much into reading affirmations, though, and they make up a lot of this book.

Eels. Quirky and unexpectedly interesting.

Yep, read this book in one afternoon. Whenever you have a new Ann Patchett novel in front of you, you just drop everything else and read it.

Haha. Yes, they do. Romantic arc went on a bit too long, I thought, but I would definitely go to this yarn store. :-)

It was fun to read about the history and construction of crossword puzzles, but much of this book was oddly (dis)organized and repetitive. Did it start out as separate essays, maybe? The last two chapters, in particular, seemed like they were there to meet the word count.

Heard the author on Science Friday and thought he seemed legit. In fact, the book seems to make a lot of sense and matches updated notions of how to eat.

Maybe 3.5. The main mystery was intriguing, but I thought the book within the book was tedious.

I wanted to read something different and lighter after [b:Bettyville 22571772 Bettyville George Hodgman https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404476865s/22571772.jpg 42038205] and [b:The Light of the World 22875479 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1422811469s/22875479.jpg 42439931], and this was ready for me at the library. It's clearly Hunger Games-ish, but I read it in an afternoon/evening because I couldn't stop. What do you know.

Read this every time I do a cross-country road trip. First time was in 1985.

For the Read Harder Challenge, #6: Read a nonfiction YA comic. I tend not to appreciate comics all that much, but there are things I really liked about this one: the simple line drawings, the fittingly complex details, and the fact that she loved Willow from Buffy.

What an extraordinary book. Worth multiple reads, I am thinking.

Another Read Harder Challenge book: “Read a book about sports.” I know nothing about most sports, but I do like David Foster Wallace's writing. This book was excellent, even for someone who doesn't know zip about tennis. I didn't know anything about lobsters either, but the essay he wrote for Gourmet ([b:Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 6751 Consider the Lobster and Other Essays David Foster Wallace https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388854217s/6751.jpg 2207382]) is one of the best things I've ever read.