Currently reading
Marine Rocky Shores and Community Ecology: An Experimentalist's Perspective (Excellence in Ecology #4)
Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications (5th Edition) (MySearchLab Series)
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
ILLUSTRATED HERBAL
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
The Complete Poems
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
The Ecology of Plants (2nd Edition)
The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
I really enjoyed this. It's been a very long time since I've been able to pick up a new Louis Sachar book. He does well with first person narration--quite frankly, so well I am surprised he hasn't used it before. Confession time: I kinda knew how to play bridge before reading this book but OH MY GOD it is insane. It is like chess. You might think you know chess because you remember that a knight makes an L, but listen, my brother used to play chess competitively and it is a different beast! So with bridge.
I do have a bone to pick: I'm sure it wasn't meant to be taken this seriously, but it happens. One of the characters, diagnosed with schizophrenia (rightly or wrongly; it is suggested wrongly), doesn't take her psych meds because the voice in her head tells her not to. Now, I could go on and on about overdiagnosis and overmedicating, but... I feel ish-y about embracing that side of the story anyway (what side? SPOILERS so I won't tell you anything else), the whole "meds are suppressing your true mental powers" thing I am not so on board with. I like my seratonin and norepinephrine levels just where they are, thanks, not where they want to be.
