How about a simple reading check in this week? I’ve been reading so many fantastic books lately but I’m honestly terrible at posting reviews. I like mini previews of books and quick blurbs about the reader’s thoughts. So here’s what I’ve read lately:
The Stolen Queen, Fiona Davis (Last)
This is the second book I’ve read by Fiona Davis. Her writing has begun to rekindle my interest in historical fiction. I think this is because she weaves plots that combine historical aspects with mysteries and a touch of thriller vibes. I will say that I enjoyed The Spectacular just a bit more than this one.
Charlotte Cross, associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art and Annie Jenkins, assistant to the director of the Met Gala, Diana Vreehland, find themselves an unlikely team. When one of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing, the two find themselves heading to Egypt to try and track it down.
Cold Eternity, S.A. Barnes (Now)
I love a good space thriller! Cold Eternity has been intrigued. It’s not quite as scary as I had hoped it would be but it’s full of unsettling vibes and weird, unexplained phenomenon. I still can’t figure out where the plot is heading but I expect it’ll be horrific!
Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago…
The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram “hosts,” ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from.
Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green (Next)
When it came time to choose my next audiobook I decided that Everything is Tuberculosos would be next. It’s narrated by John himself so I know it will be a good listen.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.
In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
What’s your last, now, next in reading?
