About a woman in Sarajevo during the siege in 1992. Trapped in the city, with water, food, electricity and other supplies cut off. They are keeping their humanity through art, books, kindness (symbolised by bridges).
I found the best aspect of this book the historical setting.
While reading it, the news from Gaza/Israel created unexpected reflections. Of course these wars are very different, but the horribleness is similar.
Why do I love my #Kobo? Not just because I can read 1-handed, though that's critical. When I am on holiday far from home with long passages of passenger travel ahead, I have a diverse library at my fingertips, as my "currently reading" list @thestorygraph shows
Regency Romance, Golden Age style locked room mystery, indigenous Māori/Pasifika shorts, physics popsci and however one categorises @scalzi 😁#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon#Aotearoa#Mystery#ScienceFiction#Science#Romance
On my way up to teach in Corvallis, I finished listening to the very good Flight Paths, by Rebecca Heisman, and then I have several books on tap ... but I decided to start listening to the incredibly great Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock, which begins on Halloween, for the return trip. #AmReading#Halloween#AmListening@bookstodon
OK, it's official - 37% in and I love @scalzi KPS. Even if the last 2/3 is worse than anything Dan Brown ever inflicted on the world, the sheer delight of seeing a Māori character using the Māori name for his homeland in a book written by someone neither tangata whenua nor tangata Tiriti guarantees KPS a whole heap of aroha from me. #Aotearoa#TeReo#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
My plan for the extra hour in bed today is to read my Braille book (Revolutionary Road by Richard Yeates) and jot down some thoughts on Less which I’ve just finished and didn’t want to end! #bookstodon#AmReading@bookstodon
What a happy coincidence that #TheStoryGraph pulled Las Vegas Noir from my TBR for me to read. I'm off to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for work. The city - or at least the part we see the most - is constantly reinventing itself, so the #LasVegas represented in this book is very different from the one that exists now, 15 years after it was published.
In this anxious time of destruction and war I couldn't handle any extra load. T. Kingfisher with this (mostly) low stakes cozy romance, was all I could handle. She helped me wined down and get some rest.
There is something compelling about women with sensitive noses and chivalrous knights. (See also, Clockwork Boys).
I finished my last novel for this spooky season this morning. Fittingly, it was "I'm Thinking of Ending Things":
No monsters to be found in this one 😐
The story kept me guessing for a long time 👍👍
The only reason this doesn't immediately beat "Red X" and "The Between" for the best novel this season is because I guessed the ending a little early. Still, a thrilling and interesting read!