Spinning Silver was brilliant. At least as good as Uprooted. Wow. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚

A lot of people in my life are trying to diversify who they read. I know I’m doing poorly on reading people of color, but I felt subconsciously like I read quite a few books by women. So I decided to check the last three years of books I’ve read.

I exported my data from Goodreads as a CSV ¹, hand coded the authors, and found, to my surprise, I was now reading mostly women.

I find it pretty challenging to be intentional about what I am reading. It is pretty easy for me to get out of the habit of reading if I pause for a few days– it almost always stretches to weeks if I stop reading for just three or four nights in a row. This almost always happens between books when I become paralyzed by choice and my “mood”. I am going to try and keep more authors of color “handy” though so that I can be more likely to unintentional change my balance there like I have with gender in the past couple of years.

The more I think about it, the more I like the title Record of a Spaceborn Few.

I’m not sure any writer has just come onto the scene like Kool-Aid man blasting through a wall and knocked me over like Becky Chambers has. 📚

Currently reading: The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley 📚

Part of me wants to walk to BookPeople right now. Then the other part of me remembers I can go to Powell’s next week. 🤔📚

I don’t want to wait until July for Record of a Spaceborn Few. 📚

I have only read two of the Nebula nominees for best novel, which means I can add 5 more books to my “want to read” shelf on Goodreads! 📚

Altered Carbon was good, but probably about 100-150 pages too long. 📚

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, book 7 of the year 💪🏻

Missed my GoodReads challenge 2 years in a row. So I started this year by breaking one of my rules and doing a couple of rereads— The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass. Hadn’t read either since they were published. Now I’m on my sixth book this year. 💪🏻📚