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Happy fall season, though it's 87°F here in the midwestern U.S. My routine has settled a bit after working on my zine for many, many hours.
I finally caught up on . . . bookkeeping (eh? eh?), using my new Pagebound account. I'm finding Pagebound very easy to use and nice to look at. Check it out, and feel free to follow me there.
I only read six books in September, and all were fiction. They were mostly audiobooks, which helped give my eyes a break from staring at a text document the rest of the time. (Update: I read eight books in September, two were not in my bookkeeping! I'm hoping an easier user interface will help me keep better track.)
Locust Lane, by Stephen Amidon: I really liked this literary thriller with a bunch of different perspectives. You follow people in a bougie suburb of Boston, after a young woman is murdered while caretaking in a local home.
Ghost Station, by S.A. Barnes: This is a locked room murder mystery, but set in an artificial settlement on another planet. I love the worldbuilding here, around the exploitative space industry and its mental health issues.
Life Sentences, by Laura Lippman: I'd never heard of this older Lippman book, which follows a self centered memoirist as she plans her third book. She investigates an odd cold case involving a former classmate.
The Consultant, by Bentley Little: Little is newer to me, and this is only my third of his books. It sounds batshit, because it is, but this is a pitch-black horror satire about a consultant whose downsizing is permanent.
Something in the Walls, by Daisy Pearce: This is a folk horror thriller about a teen girl who seems to be possessed. A traumatized journalist and a traumatized psychologist decide to go live in her house and investigate. If this sounds ethical and like it will go great, you're RIGHT. just kidding
There Is No Antimemetics Division, by QNTM: Some books are just not for me. This is a buzzy, hugely trendy scifi thriller that began on the occult fiction collaboration SCP. It's about forgetting things exist. If that sounds cool, please do check it out for yourself. This is one of the books I forgot to log, which is ironic
The Employees, by Olga Ravn: Looking for this book led me to remembering Antimemetics Division. Ravn's poetic scifi novel is styled as a postmortem as you read through an archive of statements. It's wild and I loved it.
The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn: This book led me to remember The Employees. Ravn was a poet first, and The Employees is quite like poetry. The Wax Child is instead like the childhood dream you have after reading fairy tales out of a book written for adults, a mistake you will choose to make again.