📚🗨️ “Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

📚🗨️ “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚

This is a re-read, because when I tried to read the third in the trilogy, Dead Beat, I realized I couldn’t remember much that happened in the other two. Leigh Bardugo is so good at the job.

📚🗨️ “I want to live to grow old… I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.” Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

Finished reading: The Back of the Universe by Jessixa Bagley 📚

Finished reading: While We’re Here by Anne Wynter 📚

Finished reading: The Muéganos by Jaque Jours 📚

Finished reading: A Man And His Cat 1 by Umi Sakurai 📚

This is the most relatable and wholesome manga I’ve ever read.

🔖📚 Read Reading for pleasure - and for better health by Craig Brierley.

Today, in a review published in Psychological Medicine, Professor Sahakian and Dr Langley, together with Vicki Perrin, CEO of The Queen’s Reading Room, argue that it doesn’t matter what or how we read, reading for enjoyment can bring huge benefits – and reading with others, whether it’s as part of a book club or a parent reading with their children, can bring even greater rewards.

No surprises here and not a ton of evidence for causality but correlation isn’t nothing. Saved the original research article to read later.

Finished reading: Heroes The Greek Myths Reimagined (Greek Mythology Book for Adults, Book of Greek Myths and Hero Tales) by Stephen Fry 📚🎧

Listened to Fry read this one himself, too. Great, as always.