I read mostly SF, but I try to read one NF book, 1 mystery, and one children’s book/month. Someone recommended The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart and I loved it. I found his Goodreads profile and started reading the books he highly recommended and pretty soon I was reading really great kids books. So you never know what will lead you down a rabbit hole of great books.
The Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett: City of Stairs, City of Blades, City of Miracles.
Indefatigible. It was the name of a space ship. I thought I was pronouncing it wrong, but when I looked it up I was doing it right and the narrator was wrong. Drove me nuts.
A friend of mine is president of a friend of the libraries. She gets copies of the Library’s Board of Trustees meeting notes, which includes forms that people have filled out and shared it with me. There were many saying that the book “George” should be banned. Apparently it’s about a trans kid. It sure struck me as a targeted campaign. The hilarious thing is that many of the complaints pretty much said parents should decide what kids should read. So yeah, do your job as a fucking parent and read the stuff your kids read before they do, asshole. A couple said their kid checked the book out. Yeah, not likely. Too bad so many “christians” are such fucking liars.
I love learning new words. A good writer will make it clear from context approximately what the word means. That’s how I increase my vocabulary.
I was delighted when Ann leckie wrote her Ancillary series. Many years before I had used that word in a report at work and my boss asked me what it meant. I was surprised he didn’t know because I thought it was a common word, having run across it in my reading.