Monthly archives: January 2025

Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami

I appreciate that female friendships and fulfilment without a romantic relationship are themes in the author’s work. Writing about poverty and classism from the opening chapter also boded well, but in the end I was disconnected from every one of the characters’ thought processes and motivations. Disengaging scenes … Read more

2024 Reading Stats

  • Getting obsessed with knitting cut into my reading time this year
  • I read 83 books plus 12 short stories by authors from 14 countries
  • 48% of the fiction was SFFH
  • My average reading speed was 37 pages an hour in English (a third of that in French and German)
  • I read
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