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I skipped last week, so some of these reviews are not as fresh as I'd like
Happy For You, Claire Stanford. So I don't usually have "not enough dystopian tech company" as a complaint about books, but this time I do! But this is the world we live in, where "protagonist works at a dystopian tech company" can just be one element in a basically realistic novel.
The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847): Volume 1: From Letters and Journals by Sebastian Hensel, translated by Carl Klingemann. Despite my minor obsession with the Mendelssohn family (and Fanny in particular), I hadn't read this before: This is the original biography of the Mendelssohn family with lots of primary sources, by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's son. Which is great, because he just wants to show you the Mendelssohns as people, and they are lovely people, close-knit intellectual families are my jam, and you get a sense of the intellectual milieu they grew up in: the house, with Alexander Humboldt experimenting on magnetism in the garden where the kids also put on Shakespeare plays with their neighbors. I have been noodling with writing Mendelssohns RPF, and this was the right thing to read for that. This go around I only read the section with young Felix/Fanny, but I will be back for more!
Be The Serpent, Seanan McGuire. Book 16 in the October Daye Series -- so far I'm only 5 or 6 chapters in, but a lot has happened, including confirming a theory that A and I had been floating. Excited to get back to it and see where it goes!
Happy For You, Claire Stanford. So I don't usually have "not enough dystopian tech company" as a complaint about books, but this time I do! But this is the world we live in, where "protagonist works at a dystopian tech company" can just be one element in a basically realistic novel.
The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847): Volume 1: From Letters and Journals by Sebastian Hensel, translated by Carl Klingemann. Despite my minor obsession with the Mendelssohn family (and Fanny in particular), I hadn't read this before: This is the original biography of the Mendelssohn family with lots of primary sources, by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's son. Which is great, because he just wants to show you the Mendelssohns as people, and they are lovely people, close-knit intellectual families are my jam, and you get a sense of the intellectual milieu they grew up in: the house, with Alexander Humboldt experimenting on magnetism in the garden where the kids also put on Shakespeare plays with their neighbors. I have been noodling with writing Mendelssohns RPF, and this was the right thing to read for that. This go around I only read the section with young Felix/Fanny, but I will be back for more!
Be The Serpent, Seanan McGuire. Book 16 in the October Daye Series -- so far I'm only 5 or 6 chapters in, but a lot has happened, including confirming a theory that A and I had been floating. Excited to get back to it and see where it goes!