Books

My library is doing summer reading, and they added a version of the challenge for adults. Their goal is to read 4 books over the summer, for bonus points one can be a non-fiction book about dinosaurs (their theme).

In the spirit of that, planning to read 4 library books. I've checked out Dragon's Teeth and Thunderstones: Quest for the Meaning of Fossils (McNamara) since it was out in the display and ostensibly about dinosaurs.

So far I am not loving it, lol. It's slow, spending a lot of time reiterating that ancient people made stuff out of rocks and sometimes those rocks were fossils and they thought those looked cool. And the author has repeated the phrase 'they looked for all the world like _' like 6 times. Distractly uncommon phrase to use so much. On top of that, it's not really about dinosaurs even, most of the fossils mentioned are sea urchins. /shrug At least it's short and has pictures to make pages go quick.

But alongside it I also checked out The Memory Police (Ogawa). In the opening pages it seems really interesting and well-written. The premise is a bit on-the-nose dystopian tho, so we'll see how well it's executed.