Finally got around to start The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Started and continuing as audiobook, but additionally I got the digital at about 10% in, to reread some passages.

Also, just yesterday, I picked up This is how you lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Tried to go in as blind as possible and I’m so glad I did. Really enjoying myself here.

I feel like Küstenkrimis are the localised book version of Tatort. Short and kinda entertaining, sometimes you get an interesting twist but most of the “thrill” comes from Hey-I-Know-This-Place moments.

Haven’t read it myself yet, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller.

I’m currently binging Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit by Judith Hermann. As it’s been just released it’s only available in German yet, but if you’re able to read that I highly recommend. It’s about Judith’s own journey towards discovering the story of her grandfather and the traces this man, who was a convinced Nazi, has left in the family. The horrible shadow that drags way into the third generation, that no one seems to want to acknowledge.

For me it was fairly easy, as my TBR is huge and there were plenty of options for each theme. I would never have managed to complete the card time-wise without counting audiobooks though.

I’m still 90 pages from completing the whole card in Hard Mode, still, I already allowed myself to submit. Gonna finish those in the next week, I’m sure.

I just picked up Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life. It’s been on my tbr quite some time now, and while I’m not big on non-fiction I appreciate the philosophical tone.

I have just started listening to The High Crusade. With English not even being my first language it’s really something else. Enjoying it this far though, and if I don’t understand anything anymore there’s still the option to get a used copy from back then for small money.

Sexuality =/= gender identity

Short king (or more accurately little tyrant) just dropped.

I have just started The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. It’s a bit more on the demanding side in the beginning, as it doesn’t follow a linear story but loosely related episodes in a life very different to mine. But I think I’m in the flow now.

It’s articulated as “it’s wrong”, while the message they’re trying to convey is more like “it’s not the entire truth”. The latter is hard to get across is a handful of words though, likely leaving more questions than answers. I believe they did a decent enough job that most of us can read the point between the lines.

Imagine not being able to decide what you grow in your own yard. Wild.

Being almost finished with Martha Well’s The Murderbot Diaries AS WELL, I just started to read Curse Breaker, which is the first book of Richard Schwartz’ Ice Raven Chronicles.

I would’ve never touched Murderbot if not for the feddit.org hopepunk bookclub, simply because I didn’t know it existed. It’s such a cool series though, unlike anything I’ve read before, and I hate they just adapted it into a - probably mediocre at best - TV show. Do you consider giving it a try?

Don’t have a strong opinion about Curse Breaker yet, but I’m not sure if it even got an English translation either, so there’s that.

Also, the pain is not real, they’re just feeling like it was.

Those cookies don’t hunt themselves

Almost finished And All So Quiet by Mareike Fallwickl. Only a few pages remaining and then my bingo is in arm’s reach.

Same in German (Seeigel). Though I wondered what an “urchin” is since I learned the word. So still a TIL.

I have just started And all so quiet by Mareike Fallwickl. I’m reading the original in German, so not sure about the English translation. Anyways, I loved The Rage That Remains, it’s been almost a year since I devoured it in a few sittings and I’m still thinking about this book on the regular. So I really hope And all so quiet can keep up with it.

I’m still deep into He who fights with monsters by Shirtaloon. Need to pick up some pace though, when I want to finish my bingo on time. Still two entire books to go!