Finished The Midnight Library last night

Main character Nora found a life she loved and then the rules changed so she couldn't keep it? and had to go back to her original life.  Seemed forced. At least she didn't glom onto the man who had been her 'perfect' husband and father of her 'perfect' child in her other 'perfect' life right away as soon as she got back to her original life. 

preachy. telling not showing. kind of hand-wavey at her clinical depression. Like, 'oh, just be nice and find kind people and people to love and you won't have depression anymore. ta-da!' Apparently Matt Haig has written other books that have anti-suicide themes and whatnot, from what I gathered in the author bio on the dust jacket at the back. blah.  (people on Reddit agree with me!)

I also finished The Descent of Woman. It was a bit dated but I did like it, overall. It's infuriating how badly patriarchy/colonialism has tainted every fucking thing on this goddamn earth, including science.  Anthropology/archaeology/paleontology are only as good as the scientists interpreting the objects and fossils they find....if their brains are stunted by patriarchy then what they find is tainted by it as well. :( grr 

On the recommendation of my friend Gary H. (Kaa from tinyTIM), I got an e book bundle 'Twisted Folklore' 

I am really enjoying it. Lots of women writers and female perspectives. The first book I read was a bunch of short stories that were based in Asian culture. Very cool.   And I like short stories.  To go with my attention span. LOL

I had not been reading much for the last couple years so it's nice to get back into that habit.