February 2022

Some very good reading this month. Also some not so good. All from the public library except for the ARC.

The End of Drum-Time by Pylväinen, Hanna 

Finished Feb 18, Finally finished this Advance Review Copy. (I rec'd two copies of this: one through GoodReads and one through LibraryThing.) I really liked this story of the Sami people of Norway/Sweden/Finland.

Checked out in Feb:

Cocoon by Zhang, Yueran

Finished Feb 24. Two former schoolmates reminisce  about their dysfunctional families, childhood, and young adult years in 1980s-90s Jinan China. Excellent!

In the Upper Country by Thomas, Kai 

Finished Feb 28. Liked this a lot until the last couple of chapter when I totally lost the thread.

Before the Ruins by Gosling, Victoria 

Finished Feb 26. Part coming of age, part mystery in an old manor house.

Clark and Division by Hirahara, Naomi 

Finished Feb 25. Mystery set in the Japanese/American relocation community in 1942 Chicago 

Looking for Jane by Marshall, Heather

Finished Feb 15. Well told story of adoption and abortion in Toronto in the 1960s-1980s

River sing me home by Shearer, Eleanor

Finished Feb 18. From Barbados to British Guiana to Trinidad runaway slave Rachel searches for her lost children. 

Victory city by Rushdie, Salman

Finished Feb 13.  Not my favorite Rushdie

Finna (LitenVerse, #1) by Cipri, Nino

Finished Feb 13. Short & sweet. alternate universes in an Ikeaish store.

Otherlands : a journey through Earth's extinct worlds by Halliday, Thomas

Finished Feb 16. 

Carried over from Jan:

The Torqued man by Mann, Peter

Finished Feb 8. Excellent!

The Shards by Ellis, Bret Easton Mann, Peter

Finished Feb 7. Liked it.

The World and all that it holds by Hemon, Aleksandar

Finished Feb 3. Overwritten war story

Anna May Wong : from laundryman's daughter to Hollywood legend by Hodges, Graham Russell

Finished Feb 2. Interesting bit of film history.

The Best American short stories 2021

Finished Feb 6. Not an impressive selection.

The Miniaturist by Burton, Jessie

Finished Feb 20. Liked it well enough, but reluctant to start the sequel.

The House of fortune by Jessie Burton

Finished Feb 22. The sequel to The Miniaturist was a must faster read than the first book. Not as good but it good enough. There were a couple of unanswered questions so maybe there will be a book three?

Moonrise over New Jessup by Minnicks, Jamila

Passed on this one--it just wasn't that interesting.

Mother ocean father nation by Batsha, Nishant

Returned to library; did not read

Insurrecto by Apostol, Gina

Returned to library; did not read