Some books I have liked recently

Troll by Johanna Sinisalo

I bought this at Helsinki Worldcon but only got around to reading it a few months back. It is really beautiful and raw and powerful. It's about a man who adopts a troll, and the complicated borderline between humanity as something separate from nature, vs. humanity as a part of nature.

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

The horrible anti-semitic part is really short and the rest of the book is incredibly charming! It deconstructs some Regency tropes in really effective ways, and the characters are all great and hilarious. Still horrible and anti-semitic, though.

Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow

Everyone on DW has already reviewed it, but it's an absolute delight of a Jewish lesbian space con artist romp and kosher duck made my year.

The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Adorable, and slightly uncozier than I expected. Well plotted, too. Murder mysteries about retirees who get together to solve crimes, and confront both their own mortalities and their personal histories in the process.

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

Thought-provoking and very well characterized. A story about dealing with racial and class and gender-driven toxicity on a college campus in the south.

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Kind of exactly what you'd expect from Bardugo writing Wonder Woman fanfic? Preoccupied with all the things I find most fascinating about Diana, her weird blend of naive optimism and intelligence, her complicated and personal connection to the divine, her relentless drive to do what's right even when she doubts.



Currently reading Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar and Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword, not far in either but liking both so far.