November 2024 books

Well this fell a little short of my prediction but nevermind. I did read more comics but they were short ones which I don't log in Goodreads so they don't appear here. I'm also reading a bunch of different books at once so progress is slow. Anyway, here we are.

Lord of the Flies, adapted by Aimée de Jongh

I saw this on a shelf in a local book shop a while back and was taken by how lovely the book is as an object. I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but I did and I ended up picking it up a few weeks after I'd first seen it. It's an adaptation of the book about kids getting marooned on an island and them figuring out how to survive and attempt to retain some form of society, which gets tested throughout. I feel like I need to go back and read this again at some point to really start to process it.

Retrograde Orbit, Kristyna Baczynski

This was a purchase at Thought Bubble this year. For many years, I've been meaning to pick it up and haven't so this year I put it on my "Must get this" list. It's an easy read which I believe is a little bit autobiographical covering what it's like growing up as a child (and grandchild) of immigrants, trying to figure out your own identity in this environment without not cutting ties with ancestral culture. Another one for the re-read pile for sure.

That's it for November. There should be more in December but it just depends how much reading I get done versus kicking back and doing absolutely naff-all during the Christmas break.