Ellison’s Invisible Man came out in 1952 and tells the story of the struggle of a nameless main character, a black man from the South who finds himself exiled to Harlem, as he tries to figure out his place in America. Not to be confused with the 1933 sci-fi movie called The Invisible Man nor the H.G. My favorite out of the three was Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I also read Artemis by Andy Weir and enjoyed his sarcastic main character and reading about a set of colonies on the moon. The first time I read it was back in high school and I understand it a lot better reading it as an adult. The first was a re-read of 1984 by George Orwell. I managed to check three of them off the list. Definitely looking forward to Raybourn continuing the series since I love her style and her witty and smart main characters.įor the other bits of random reading, I turned to a list of books I wanted to read this year. I did read Deanna Raybourn’s latest Veronica Speedwell book, A Treacherous Curse, and thoroughly enjoyed it. My historical fiction reading was light these first three months, although I am currently reading a charming early medieval times murder mystery. Reading as an adult I found it lacking a lot of what I look for in a book. I also read for the first time Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Timeand felt it was a book I might have enjoyed had I read it as a child. I just wanted to quickly say that I loved this book because the main character, Maia, is easy to root for. I won’t go into too much detail as I’m saving my full thoughts for the end of the year when it’ll appear on my favorite reads list. My favorite was The Goblin Emperorby Katherine Addison. My sci-fi/fantasy reads consisted of books from my book club. My for fun reading consisted of a mixture of sci-fi/fantasy, historical fiction, and random genres. When I wasn’t researching, I read for fun. Even with telling myself to only focus on only what is specifically relevant to the story, I still went overboard on the research. Big, heavy books filled with beautiful color pictures of places from all over the world that I am using to figure out how to create a fictional garden or two. A lot of it was research for my WIP so I was learning about orchids and 19 th century garden design.

I did a fair bit of reading in the first three months. Vampires like me squint and spit at the sun while sun lovers dance happily outside. People with allergies are sneezing and wheezing. Flowers and trees are budding and blooming. Hard to believe it is April and a quarter of the year is finished.

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