Portable Magic
Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
Currently reading
A Conjuring of Light ★★★★☆
The final book in the trilogy was very satisfying, if not quite as compelling as the first. I truly enjoyed this telling of four worlds with four Londons and the battle for magic and dominance and the nature of power and love and identity and duty.
I appreciated that I could not fully like any of the main characters, but could empathize with them all. I appreciated that most of them remained at least partly a mystery, and that Lila's history is never explained, even to herself.
Audiobook, borrowed from my public library via Overdrive. Kate Reading did ok with her portions of the narration, but I found Michael Kramer's a little off-putting. I really hate when audiobook publishers use different readers for the different books in the same series. Their interpretation is different, their accents are different, their voices are different. It's jarring.