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Finished reading: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond 📚

Finished reading: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre 📚

This book is a triumph of the design of a physical object. It’s so cool. The making-of details are fascinating but the design elevates it.

Finished reading: Perfect by Judith McNaught 📚

Finished reading: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 📚

Finished up this series with the kiddo. On to the next!

Finished reading: Mythos by Stephen Fry 📚🎧

It’s just delightful to hear Stephen Fry read this aloud.

Thanks for the kind birthday wishes, everybody!

I was born 45 years ago today. I’m still here. I’m doing a pretty good job sticking around.

Finished reading: Paradise by Judith McNaught 📚

McNaught is so good at the job.

Finished reading: Her Night with the Duke by Diana Quincy 📚

There’s so much to love here. Leela is an amazing heroine fighting to build a writing career in a society that tries to block her at every turn. Her interactions with her Arab family made me curious about my own Levantine relatives, who came to the US in 1902.