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I think that’s a great age to read the Percy Jackson series. I never finished it, but I found the books I did read enjoyable.

I finished Educated by Tara Westover. I really liked this book. It gave me a glimpse into an upbringing that is about as different from mine as I can imagine. If you want to get an idea of what it’s like to grow up in a distrusts-anything-government, survivalist family, I highly recommend.

Now I’ve started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I’m still early on but I love how this book started. It instantly gripped me and I can’t wait to see how it goes.

You could try Magic Earth.

It uses OpenStreetMaps, same as organic maps, but also has crowd sourced traffic data. I haven’t tested it much though so I’m not sure how accurate it is.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was alao very good! I really wish she wrote more but I’ve read she struggles with chronic illness so it’s hard to get more books out.

For Educated, while the survivalism is very present, the book is more exploring the impact it has had on the author’s upbringing and on her siblings.

I finished the short stories in my copy of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Some of them haven’t aged that well but overall I found most of them enjoyable.

I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. This book was absolutely amazing. If you want a short, atmospheric fantasy I highly recommend. I think this is a book I’ll return to routinely.

Now I’m reading Educated by Tara Westover. It’s a memoir about her growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho. She was not enrolled in school and didn’t even have a birth certificate for many years. I’m not very far in yet but it is fascinating and very easy to read.

I actually came across a spoiler for the I Am Legend book years ago, so it wasn’t a total surprise. Though either the spoiler had it partly wrong or my memory of it wasn’t fully accurate so there were still some surprises. Did you read through the short stories as well?

I finally finished The Wheel of Time series! I took forever to get through the last book, longer than with any of the slog books, but I’m so happy to be done. I do wish the last book was more satisfying. It just felt very different in tone from the rest, partly I think due to Sanderson running out of source material. But there was still a lot I enjoyed across the whole series, so I don’t regret putting the time into it.

I finished I Am Legend by Richard Matheson last night. My copy of the book contains a bunch of short stories by the author as well, so now I am reading through those. He is very effective at writing short, impactful horror.

I have one Bingo (the top row) so far and 9 total squares filled. Definitely not expecting to fill the whole board, but I’m hoping to get at least one or two more bingoes complete. It’s been fun sitting down and seeing what square I can assign each book to as I read!

I’m reading A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time Book 14!). I’m only about halfway through and so far it’s been good but I liked the books leading up to it more. We’ll see how the second half goes.

I’m reading The Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time book 13!!) by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson. I’m so close to the end of this series! And the last few books have been sooo satisfying. For a while during the slog I was worried but I’m glad I stuck with it.