u/crocodilewrangler

I've loved seeing everyone else's posts! Wanted to share what I've been up to in my literary life!

Edit: updating in accordance with mod rules!

New Favorites:

• The Correspondent - Virginia Evans
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
• Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
• A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
• Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
• The Cruelest Miles - Laney/Gay Salisbury

Loved, think about often:

• The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• The Wager - David Grann
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
• Circe - Madeline Miller
• Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
• Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
• Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
• Orbital - Samantha Harvey

Good! Enjoyable:

• Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
• Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin
• The Great Mann - Kyra Davis Lurie
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larson
• All Systems Red - Martha Wells
• Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
• Dinner with Vampires - Bethany Joy Lenz
• The husbands - Holly Gramazio
• These Heathens - Mia McKenzie
• Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
• Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar
• Service Model - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• S is for Space - Ray Bradbury
• Marion - Leah Rowan
• The Maidens - Alex Michaelides

Meh:

• The Long Walk - Stephen King
• The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
• The Cure for Women - Lydia Reeder
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
• The Book Censor's Library - Bothayna Al-Essa
• The Ghostway - Tony Hillerman
• Authority - Jeff VanderMeer

Did not like:

• It's Not Her - Mary Kubica
• Discipline - Larissa Pham
• Every Summer After - Carley Fortune
• The Guest List - Lucy Foley

HATED (DNF):

• The Secret History - Donna Tartt

As a new journaler, this helps me organize my thoughts before I write my Goodreads review. and is so so fun :)