These are the books I will be reading in January. Because it is the
month of resolutions it’s a fairly ambitious month for me, which sounds like a
great idea since I’m also planning to spend the month looking for a job and you
know, have a panic attack when it all feels overwhelming, the ideal situation
to read a lot. The sarcasm is strong in me. Anyway, these are the books I’m
planning to read in January.
I didn’t finish this in December, because I did not care and just didn’t
read like at all. But I’ll finish it in January. It’s about the world of Oz
from the Wizard of Oz and it’s the conclusion of a lot of storylines Maguire
has set up in the three previous books. Glinda is under house arrest, the
Emperor, Shell Thropp (Elphaba’s brother) has decided to wage war on
Munchkinland, the Cowardly Lion is an enemy of the State and on the run, Liir
(Elphaba’s son) is in hiding, Rain (Liir’s daughter) is showing signs of having
inherited her grandmother’s abilities, and even more excitingly, Dorothy Gale
is back in Oz, and on trial. It’s exciting, there’s political intrigue, there’s
weird war, for no reason other than Shell being an asshole. There are other
reasons, but it feels like Shell just wants to take over everything just
because.
This is David Mitchell’s newest book. It’s about a girl named Holly
Sykes, a runaway, in 1984, who meets a strange woman who offers kindness in
exchange for asylum. And the book follows Holly’s life. It jumps from 1984 to
1991, and then on about 10 years a couple of times for the rest of her life,
which is how David Mitchell writes books. I heard it also includes people from
Cloud Atlas, so I get to see what happens there. It’s a bit historical, as it
starts in 1984, and dystopian as it ends in 2043. I’m excited, it’ll be
interesting.
I’m doing this for a Book of the Month thing on
Goodreads. I wanted to read it anyway, but hey. It’s a dystopian story about a
travelling troupe of performers. One night an actor dies on stage and that
night a deadly flu starts to spread, decimating the population basically. And
then the story continues 15 years later the same troupe is travelling around
America playing Shakespeare for survivors. It sounds cool. I like dystopia, I
like travelling performers, I’m weird. I’m excited anyways, it’ll be fun.
This is a book about an African girl named Aminata
Diallo who has been abducted to South Carolina to be a slave. She is then sold
to an indigo trader and lands sort of in the Revolutionary War. She then goes
to Manhattan and helps with the writing of the Book of Negroes and then goes to Nova Scotia. There’s lots of
prejudice and stuff and I imagine hardship and awfulness. I think I’ve had this
book for like 5 years so it’s probably about time. Yeah, fun. Also there's supposed to be a miniseries I believe, so that'll be interesting.
To kick off the Year of Brontë (post to come) I am
beginning with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte, which I’ve had for an eternity. Jane is
an orphan and lives at Lowood, a school for orphans. She isn’t particularly
liked, but she becomes a lovely young lady anyway. She becomes a governess, and
she starts working at Thornfield and she falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and
realizes there’s something standing in the way of their lawful marriage (he has
a crazy wife in the attic). It’s supposed to be really good, so I’m excited.
I’m too excited possibly.
I actually won this in like a raffle from Misty from the Bookrat and Liz
from Consumed by Books, who have a book club called #WednesdayYA where they
look through the YA-books they have in common and just haven’t read and they
pick one every month, and January’s book is Legend, and I won the ebook
version, which is fun. So I’m going to read this. I hear people tend to whiz
through it, so that’ll be fun. It’s set sometime in the future, and the western
United States, also known as the Republic is at war with their neighbors, so
that’s fun. It’s about a young woman, June, who is 15 and a prodigy. And it’s
about Day, a 15-year-old criminal born into the slums. And then they obviously
cross paths. Because it’s a book and this is how it works.
And if it arrives before the end of January:
I ordered this from Amazon, and so far it hasn’t arrived, so I don’t
like them. It might arrive, and if it does I will fucking read it. I’m excited.
It’s the third and final book in the League of Princes books. This is about the
Princes learning that Briar Rose is supposedly dead and they’re the prime
suspects. I love the League of Princes books and I want to know how it ends so
bad. So I need it to show up like now. (It did, I just need to get it from the
post office.)
Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë