Books read in February 2018

[nou]

As per last month, I'm not writing reviews or even mini-reviews, but just stating whether I'd recommend the book (yes/maybe/no), whether I decided not to finish it (DNF), whether it's a re-read, and whether I have any content warnings (cw). Please don't take the content warnings as definitive — most of them are done from memory and I may have forgotten some.

Recommend:

• Durians Are Not The Only Fruit, Wong Yoon Wah translated by Jeremy Tiang
• Incandescence, Greg Egan (re-read)
• The Clockwork Rocket, The Eternal Flame, and The Arrows Of Time, Greg Egan (re-reads) (cw: incest, child death)
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (cw: child abuse, domestic violence, fatphobia)
• Beasts And Super-Beasts, Saki (re-read)
• The Sword Smith, Eleanor Arnason (re-read) (cw: slavery)

Maybe recommend:

• When William Came, Saki (cw: anti-semitism, fatphobia)
• Whose Turn For The Stairs, Staying On Past The Terminus, and Last Dance At The Wrecker's Ball (cw: domestic violence, racial slurs, child death)
• Hild, Nicola Griffith (re-read) (cw: slavery, rape, incest, child death, graphic violence)

What have you recently read and enjoyed? (Feel free to point towards posts on your own journal.)

Comments

[miss_newham]

I read and enjoyed 'Concretopia' by John Grindrod which has a fair bit about New Addington in it!

[nou]

Oooh, yes, that’s a good one, and yes, I particularly enjoyed the New Addington parts. I was telling someone about New Addington when I was in Glasgow, I think because we were having a disagreement over whether trams are a good thing or not.