Wednesday reading
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queen_ypolitaFinished since the last reading post
Finished Homintern, which was a bit bulky to hold while reading but which offered informative and insightful chapters on the connections, travels, and staying abroad of various queer people in the arts from late 19th century to late mid-20th century.
Also finished In the Full Light of the Sun, which I'd bought on a whim in the autumn and didn't really have any idea if I'd get along with it. But I really enjoyed it, the three different points of view to a fictional (but inspired by a real case) art forgery story from the 1920s and early 1930s Germany.
And also finished Delay of Game, which was OK as undemanding bedtime reading, to the extent I'm struggling to remember what the protagonists were called a week later.
And finally, finished The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space by Loren Grush. While I knew something about Sally Ride and Judy Resnik, and knew that the 1978 astronaut selection was the first time when women were selected, I'd never stopped to think about who the other women in that first group were or if they ever actually travelled on the space shuttle. And this book delivered on the promise to tell me more, it was a nice easy read
Currently reading
Started reading Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer, which I first heard about during the German film course I did in January.
Also reading Home Ice Advantage by Ari Baran, the third book in the romance novel trilogy I've been reading recently.
Reading next
Not entirely sure
Finished Homintern, which was a bit bulky to hold while reading but which offered informative and insightful chapters on the connections, travels, and staying abroad of various queer people in the arts from late 19th century to late mid-20th century.
Also finished In the Full Light of the Sun, which I'd bought on a whim in the autumn and didn't really have any idea if I'd get along with it. But I really enjoyed it, the three different points of view to a fictional (but inspired by a real case) art forgery story from the 1920s and early 1930s Germany.
And also finished Delay of Game, which was OK as undemanding bedtime reading, to the extent I'm struggling to remember what the protagonists were called a week later.
And finally, finished The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space by Loren Grush. While I knew something about Sally Ride and Judy Resnik, and knew that the 1978 astronaut selection was the first time when women were selected, I'd never stopped to think about who the other women in that first group were or if they ever actually travelled on the space shuttle. And this book delivered on the promise to tell me more, it was a nice easy read
Currently reading
Started reading Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer, which I first heard about during the German film course I did in January.
Also reading Home Ice Advantage by Ari Baran, the third book in the romance novel trilogy I've been reading recently.
Reading next
Not entirely sure
