Reading log for Oct 2025
This month, I read:
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary: I picked this off the shelf based on the title and cover not knowing anything about it. It was hilarious, touching, and very French. Recommended if you like diaries or depressed people or dry humor. It reminded me a little of Convenience Store Woman.
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante: Heart-renching novels concluding her Neapolitan series. It was amazing to me how much the experience of these characters half a world away felt so much like my own. It was an absolute delight when one of the two main characters became an early software developer, a twist I would have never guessed. Favorite books of the month for sure.
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams: I don't know why I pick up books like this. Most non-fiction bores me and the tech insider tell-all memoir is never great. I already know how completely upside-down tech is. Didn't love it, preferred Whistleblower.
- The Colony by Annika Norlin: On the other hand, this book ruled. The author painted a portrait of a truly charismatic person more faithfully than I've seen before, where even as a reader I couldn't help but fall under her spell even as she led everyone further into her own created world.