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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 23:44:38 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 96: The Poacher's Son. A complicated story about a Maine game warden just doing his job when a brutal crime gets committed and his estranged dad (who was a drunk and a jerk) is implicated. The warden tries to clear his name. A lot of sad and bad families and messy rural bad choices. At the same time, there was some beautiful wilderness of a kind I recognized. I know "thriller" was right there on the cover, but I went into this thinking it was a mystery. Liked it, might not read the next one

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 23:44:39 JST Jessamyn

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     Book 95: Foxglove Summer. This installment of the Rivers of London series takes place (mostly) away from the usual Folly locale and has a lot more rural policing stuff in it, working on relationships, dealing with small towns. Not as many of hte main characters you've grown to know and like. There are some bonus magical animals, but definitely feels more like "one in a series" than a stand-alone even though it can work that way as well. I liked it.

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 23:44:40 JST Jessamyn

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     Book 94: The Unraveller. This was the first book from my "birthday book suggestions" list over on Bluesky. I liked it. A YA novel of a magical world in which cursing is real and cursers are punished but sometimes things get out of hand. A pair of teenagers tries to help the cursed but then realizes the plight of the cursers is not quite what they expected. A lot of "who can you trust" and "how do you handle complicated morality" in this one. If you like magical tales, you'll like it.

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 23:44:41 JST Jessamyn

     Book 93: Dignity in a Digital Age. Khanna is the Congressional rep for Silicon Valley (the only majority Asian district in the continental US). This is a policy-heavy book about how we can use technology not just to make wealthy people wealthier but to allow for more security & opportunity for people all over the US (and world) w/o the usual facile "Rural people can all work in help desk call centers!" shallow visions we often see. These policy approaches are not cheap, but they are necessary