https://omaciel.github.io/tags/barbara-kingsolver/Recent content in Barbara Kingsolver on Og Maciel's JournalHugoen-usFri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://omaciel.github.io/posts/2025-10-31-october-reading-wrap-up-a-month-of-chaos-comics-quiet-pages/Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://omaciel.github.io/posts/2025-10-31-october-reading-wrap-up-a-month-of-chaos-comics-quiet-pages/<p><img src="https://omaciel.github.io/images/october-reading-wrap-up-a-month-of-chaos-comics-quiet-pages.jpg" alt="Cover Image"><em>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@thalia_s_ruiz?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Thalia Ruiz</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/person-in-gray-sweater-holding-white-ceramic-mug-GUo08am-WAY?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></em></p> <p>This month of October has been… a <em>very</em> busy one at work, and as a result, I didn&rsquo;t spend nearly as much time reading as I usually do. Between all the additional stress and prep work required to handle some unexpected complications, I also managed to do a fair amount of writing, so something had to give.</p> <p>When I <a href="https://ogmaciel.substack.com/p/the-books-that-carried-me-through">wrapped up September,</a> I said I wanted to read some scary books, maybe lean more into sci-fi and less into non-fiction, mostly because I felt like I needed a break from the real world. And if that was true in September, oh boy was it even more true in October.</p>