Weekend reading wrap up

[fred_mouse]

Did ya read something? Did ya? Tell us about it!

If you didn't, tell us about what you wish you'd had time for.

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[angledge]

I didn't read much this weekend, because I had an unexpected (but welcome!) guest; however, lately I've been reading a lot & listening to a lot of audiobooks (thank you, Libby, for sparing me from bankruptcy). My recommendations:

• The Divine Cities Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett. A post-apocalyptic world with a murder-mystery feel. What happens when your society has direct connection to the power of the gods - & then those gods are slain?
  
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Kingsolver takes the story of David Copperfield & sets it in Appalachia at the outbreak of the OxyContin crisis. Reading this novel while my mom (who lives on the edge of Appalachia) is dealing with pain management issues following her latest back surgery was chilling, to say the least.
  
• Project Hail Mary written by Andy Weir & narrated by Ray Porter. This audiobook won the 2022 Audie Award for the Audiobook of the Year. Reminiscent of The Martian, it's another great hard-science action adventure with the survival of humanity being only part of the stakes! Ray Porter brings the nerdy main character to life & the choice to incorporate minimal sound effects was a good one.
  
• Gideon the Ninth written by Tamsyn Muir & narrated by Moira Quirk. I found reading this book to be a bit of a drag, but listening to it was super-fun! Moira does a surprisingly wide range of voices for the cavaliers & necromancers of the Nine Houses of the Necrolord's Empire & she doesn't stumble over all the long character names, like I did while reading.