Books I read in January 2024
Feb. 1st, 2024 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amado1Red Text: I hated this book
Blue Text: This book made me cry
Pink Text: This book did not make me cry but I recommend it nonetheless
Total:
— The Seven Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer;
— October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman;
— Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman;
— Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage;
— Renegades: San Francisco: The 1990s by Chloe Sherman;
— Boys Run the Riot Vol. 2-4 by Keito Gaku;
— Northranger by Rey Terciero;
— Pinky & Pepper Forever by Eddy Atoms;
— The Epic of Gilgamesh;
— Ramayana by Valmiki;
— Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins;
— The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz;
— Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan;
— Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters by Joan Ryan;
— Beautiful on the Outside by Adam Rippon;
— Beowulf by Seamus Heaney;
— The Popul Vuh by Lewis Spence;
— Lear: The Great Image of Authority by Harold Bloom;
— Sunjata by Bamba Suso;
— King Lear by William Shakespeare;
— DS9: The Dominion and Ferenginar by Keith R.A. DeCandido;
— DS9: Rising Son by S.D. Perry;
— DS9: Warpath by David Mack;
— Candide and Related Texts by Voltaire.
Books I'm still reading:
— Inside Edge: The Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating by Christine Brennan;
— The Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo;
— The Odyssey by T.E. Lawrence;
— Odysseus in America by Jonathan Shay;
— Immodest Acts (can't remember the author)
— Alive by Piers Paul Read
Books I "read" by doing a search for Weyoun's name and just reading his parts:
— DS9: What You Leave Behind novelization by Diane Carey (excellent writing!)
— Star Trek: The Badlands Book 2 by Susan Wright
As you can see, a lot of books made me cry XD I was sobbing when old King Beowulf fought the dragon, I was sobbing when Gilgamesh lost Enkidu, I was snorting back snot at various points during Adam Rippon's memoir, I cried when King Lear knelt down to Cordelia, I cried during EVERYTHING with "Alive", and I pretty much just cried nonstop during the Matthew Shepard tribute book.
Blue Text: This book made me cry
Pink Text: This book did not make me cry but I recommend it nonetheless
Total:
— The Seven Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer;
— October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman;
— Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman;
— Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage;
— Renegades: San Francisco: The 1990s by Chloe Sherman;
— Boys Run the Riot Vol. 2-4 by Keito Gaku;
— Northranger by Rey Terciero;
— Pinky & Pepper Forever by Eddy Atoms;
— The Epic of Gilgamesh;
— Ramayana by Valmiki;
— Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins;
— The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz;
— Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan;
— Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters by Joan Ryan;
— Beautiful on the Outside by Adam Rippon;
— Beowulf by Seamus Heaney;
— The Popul Vuh by Lewis Spence;
— Lear: The Great Image of Authority by Harold Bloom;
— Sunjata by Bamba Suso;
— King Lear by William Shakespeare;
— DS9: The Dominion and Ferenginar by Keith R.A. DeCandido;
— DS9: Rising Son by S.D. Perry;
— DS9: Warpath by David Mack;
— Candide and Related Texts by Voltaire.
Books I'm still reading:
— Inside Edge: The Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating by Christine Brennan;
— The Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo;
— The Odyssey by T.E. Lawrence;
— Odysseus in America by Jonathan Shay;
— Immodest Acts (can't remember the author)
— Alive by Piers Paul Read
Books I "read" by doing a search for Weyoun's name and just reading his parts:
— DS9: What You Leave Behind novelization by Diane Carey (excellent writing!)
— Star Trek: The Badlands Book 2 by Susan Wright
As you can see, a lot of books made me cry XD I was sobbing when old King Beowulf fought the dragon, I was sobbing when Gilgamesh lost Enkidu, I was snorting back snot at various points during Adam Rippon's memoir, I cried when King Lear knelt down to Cordelia, I cried during EVERYTHING with "Alive", and I pretty much just cried nonstop during the Matthew Shepard tribute book.
