my reading slowed down at the end of the year. in october i read:
a darker shade of magic, by v.e. schwab (this was my suggestion for the book club i'm in, and it kind of disappointed. it was 450-ish pages long, but if the story had been told in 250 pages, i think i would have liked it a lot more. it just...it dragged for me. and i don't really love magic, so not sure why i thought i would love this book? anyway. this book definitely has a following, and if magic is your thing, go for it. i won't be reading any more from the author.)
migrations, by charlotte mcconaghy (from my bookshelf - this is one that mom bought me for christmas last year, and i finally read it and LOVED it. the story of a woman in a future year where many animals have gone extinct, and she is following the last batch of arctic terns on their migration from greenland to antarctica. there is biology and such, but it's mostly the story of the people she encounters and her own reckoning with her past. beautifully written, i highly recommend it.)
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