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grayestofghostsIt's been a while since I posted about a book I've read, hasn't it? And I suppose I'm still on track to get my 10 by the end of the year.
And finally one that I just unabashedly really liked.
So, I got a kobo for my birthday, a Libra Color, and I thought that probably what I would end up mostly doing is reading library books and possibly downloaded fanfiction on it. While I was at my brother's house I was mostly doing proof-of-concept with the Kobo's nice ability to browse Libby catalogues natively and I came across the book Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis and the cover intrigued me and the blurb was off the wall and there was no waitlist unlike many of the other books I had been looking at, so I grabbed it and... well.
Sometimes there are books that are made for you and you find them. It's a bizarre concept -- a 19th century Prussian scientist laying the groundwork to build perfect soldiers from dogs, and those dogs finally being created in the modern day, rebelling against their masters and joining high society in New York -- yet the outcome feels more honest than many books given its handling of ambivalence in a way that is not overwrought, which feels rare these days. It's hard to describe, I think, or maybe I'm not good at writing books. But you should read it.
And finally one that I just unabashedly really liked.
So, I got a kobo for my birthday, a Libra Color, and I thought that probably what I would end up mostly doing is reading library books and possibly downloaded fanfiction on it. While I was at my brother's house I was mostly doing proof-of-concept with the Kobo's nice ability to browse Libby catalogues natively and I came across the book Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis and the cover intrigued me and the blurb was off the wall and there was no waitlist unlike many of the other books I had been looking at, so I grabbed it and... well.
Sometimes there are books that are made for you and you find them. It's a bizarre concept -- a 19th century Prussian scientist laying the groundwork to build perfect soldiers from dogs, and those dogs finally being created in the modern day, rebelling against their masters and joining high society in New York -- yet the outcome feels more honest than many books given its handling of ambivalence in a way that is not overwrought, which feels rare these days. It's hard to describe, I think, or maybe I'm not good at writing books. But you should read it.
