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Second Quarter Reading Wrap-up!
Jul. 1st, 2026 12:44 pmCan you believe it's July 1 already? (Happy Canada Day!) Where did June go? Anyways, I'm making pretty good progress with my Bingo card, I've filled roughly half the card, which where I want to be right now. Here are the books I read in the second quarter:
Star Trek: Captain to Captain by Greg Cox - listened to this one as an audiobook and really enjoyed it. It turned out to be much more about Una, Number One from Pike's days, than Kirk and company, but I still found it a compelling listen. The narrator did a good job with the woman's voices, they weren't whiny or cringey at all. It's the first in a series, and I really want to see how the story continues, so I have to read the second book at some point.
Adulting for Amateurs: Misadventures of a Geriatric Millennial by Jess H. Gutierrez - this was a series of humorous essays about being a millennial as an adult. I'm technically not a millennial, but I still enjoyed it. I will say some were better and funnier than others, but all of these types of books are usually mixed bags.
Honor & Heresy by Max Francis - two young men are locked in a magical library together and given the task of doing research and figuring out why a deadly enemy is attacking the empire. I know that may sound whimsical, but trust me it's not, it gets real dark at points. Both these characters have trauma and they only get more by being there. My one major complaint is I wish the M/M romance had been developed more.
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben - this was pretty good mystery. The beginning premise is that a woman's husband has died, but then a week later she sees him on the nanny cam. I know that sounds like a pretty normal mystery fuckery, but this one doesn't go the way one would expect. I will admit at certain points I just couldn't figure out how some of these events all fit together, and I almost gave up in the middle, but I'm glad I stuck with it because it all made sense by the end.
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau - this was a really good dystopian middle grade novel (which I just finished today!) The author did a good job with the 12 year protagonists, who both felt slightly older because of the world they were inhabiting, but they were also naive and innocent about others things. The author seemed to strike the right balance to me, which isn't always easy with this type of story. I also thought the world-building was great. I do wish I had young relatives in the right age range to pass it on to, because I'm pretty sure a 10-12 year old would really like it.
I also tried a novel called Horse by Geraldine Brooks, because I thought I might join my local library's book club, but I'm afraid I gave up half way through. It was one of those novels that flips back and forth between the past and modern day, I liked the portions set in a historical setting, but I found the modern day sections tedious and I kept wanting to skip over them, until I finally gave up.
Star Trek: Captain to Captain by Greg Cox - listened to this one as an audiobook and really enjoyed it. It turned out to be much more about Una, Number One from Pike's days, than Kirk and company, but I still found it a compelling listen. The narrator did a good job with the woman's voices, they weren't whiny or cringey at all. It's the first in a series, and I really want to see how the story continues, so I have to read the second book at some point.
Adulting for Amateurs: Misadventures of a Geriatric Millennial by Jess H. Gutierrez - this was a series of humorous essays about being a millennial as an adult. I'm technically not a millennial, but I still enjoyed it. I will say some were better and funnier than others, but all of these types of books are usually mixed bags.
Honor & Heresy by Max Francis - two young men are locked in a magical library together and given the task of doing research and figuring out why a deadly enemy is attacking the empire. I know that may sound whimsical, but trust me it's not, it gets real dark at points. Both these characters have trauma and they only get more by being there. My one major complaint is I wish the M/M romance had been developed more.
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben - this was pretty good mystery. The beginning premise is that a woman's husband has died, but then a week later she sees him on the nanny cam. I know that sounds like a pretty normal mystery fuckery, but this one doesn't go the way one would expect. I will admit at certain points I just couldn't figure out how some of these events all fit together, and I almost gave up in the middle, but I'm glad I stuck with it because it all made sense by the end.
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau - this was a really good dystopian middle grade novel (which I just finished today!) The author did a good job with the 12 year protagonists, who both felt slightly older because of the world they were inhabiting, but they were also naive and innocent about others things. The author seemed to strike the right balance to me, which isn't always easy with this type of story. I also thought the world-building was great. I do wish I had young relatives in the right age range to pass it on to, because I'm pretty sure a 10-12 year old would really like it.
I also tried a novel called Horse by Geraldine Brooks, because I thought I might join my local library's book club, but I'm afraid I gave up half way through. It was one of those novels that flips back and forth between the past and modern day, I liked the portions set in a historical setting, but I found the modern day sections tedious and I kept wanting to skip over them, until I finally gave up.
