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February books read
Mar. 4th, 2020 01:12 pmAlmost nothing this month because of the double whammy of the flu and getting more extracurricular commitments. At least this makes it easy to write up!
Six of Crows (Bardugo) - 3+/5 - I had seen this around for a while, but didn't have a huge incentive to actually read it until my cousin's teenager, the one that my cousin tells me "is just like you!" and who in any case is my favorite second cousin, told me at the last family reunion that it was her favorite book in the world. So then I had to read it, and finally the e-hold came in so I did, although it took me a while to break through the first couple of chapters. I knew it was fantasy but somehow I had completely missed that it was a heist book, which I greatly enjoyed (and to be fair it was kind of fun not to know that going in). I liked it enough to immediately put a hold on the next book (as it hangs in a cliffhanger, which Second Cousin didn't tell me).
Ninth House (Bardugo) - reviewed here, definitely the fastest read.
Chapter 9 of my dad's memoirs, which I'm helping him edit (I just do SPAG and not much heavier editing, in large part because I like having it in his own words, although sometimes I'll ask him to elaborate further on something). This chapter deals with his college years at BYU and his (full) older sister marrying. My dad's family was a mess. He talks about his sister's wedding being a total mess, and he vowed he was NOT going to get married anywhere NEAR his parents (and, spoiler, fulfilled that vow). For just one instance of how messed up it was: my dad's father promised to give no more than $100 to each kid's wedding. ...then my dad's stepmother paid for the rest of HER kids' weddings. My dad and his older sister only got the $100. I had heard that story before, but I think I heard it only before I myself got married and had no real reference... I now understand why my dad insisted on paying for my wedding and my sister's wedding, even though we both had jobs by then, and were marrying people with jobs, and I had sort of assumed D and I would pay for it ourselves (and we would have been happy to do so).
Six of Crows (Bardugo) - 3+/5 - I had seen this around for a while, but didn't have a huge incentive to actually read it until my cousin's teenager, the one that my cousin tells me "is just like you!" and who in any case is my favorite second cousin, told me at the last family reunion that it was her favorite book in the world. So then I had to read it, and finally the e-hold came in so I did, although it took me a while to break through the first couple of chapters. I knew it was fantasy but somehow I had completely missed that it was a heist book, which I greatly enjoyed (and to be fair it was kind of fun not to know that going in). I liked it enough to immediately put a hold on the next book (as it hangs in a cliffhanger, which Second Cousin didn't tell me).
Ninth House (Bardugo) - reviewed here, definitely the fastest read.
Chapter 9 of my dad's memoirs, which I'm helping him edit (I just do SPAG and not much heavier editing, in large part because I like having it in his own words, although sometimes I'll ask him to elaborate further on something). This chapter deals with his college years at BYU and his (full) older sister marrying. My dad's family was a mess. He talks about his sister's wedding being a total mess, and he vowed he was NOT going to get married anywhere NEAR his parents (and, spoiler, fulfilled that vow). For just one instance of how messed up it was: my dad's father promised to give no more than $100 to each kid's wedding. ...then my dad's stepmother paid for the rest of HER kids' weddings. My dad and his older sister only got the $100. I had heard that story before, but I think I heard it only before I myself got married and had no real reference... I now understand why my dad insisted on paying for my wedding and my sister's wedding, even though we both had jobs by then, and were marrying people with jobs, and I had sort of assumed D and I would pay for it ourselves (and we would have been happy to do so).
