Month 43 of 260 (16.54 percent)
Size of list: 89,374 pages (14.91 percent above start)
Pages read: 22,187 (24.82 percent)
H-list: 6,333/23,472 (26.98 percent)
N-list: 8,475/36,960 (22.93 percent)
O-list: 7,379/28,942 (25.2 percent)
Finished: The Obelisk Gate
Reading: Golden Fool, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
The main book I read this month was The Obelisk Gate, volume 2 of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. While the first volume was a time-hopper, this volume takes place in pretty much linear time but with jumping character perspectives. It was a fantastic narrative of conflict and growth, and I enjoyed it a lot; but it was a middle volume, so not as earth-shatteringly original as the first volume nor as profound as I expect the third will be. I would compare it favorably to Ancillary Sword, Leckie's second volume; now I have to read The Dark Forest, Liu's second, just for comparison's sake.
