A very slow reading month on account that I started watching Gilmore Girls again and that has consumed all of my media consumption this month.
1. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, vol. 7 by Beth Brower - Delightful as always! Still just loving this series.
2. Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett - I preferred the first book to this one, but still a very fun series! Emily is just adorable and I flew through this.
3. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - This was our book club selection this month, and I had very mixed feelings. I'm not a big literary fiction reader, so I knew it would move too slowly for me, but there were moments that I think will stick with me. We picked it as it was named by the NY Times the "best book of the 21st century." I disagree. Also, I fell down a real rabbit hole about the author, who has for their entire career remained anonymous and rarely does interviews. There's a lot of speculation of who they are, if it's multiple people, if it's a man. It made me think about the book really differently in a way that I liked. I'm not used to "death of the author" working that way and I can't stop thinking about it.
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