34. N.K.Jemisin, The City We Became -- Huh. I was expecting to have a hard time getting through this book, based on everything I knew about the premise and also the reviews I've seen from people for whom it did not work. So I cautiously peeked at it when I needed a new thing to be reading on my phone, when I didn't have my main (hard copy) read ( Read more... )

51. Ursula Vernon, Giant Trouble (Hamster Princess 4) -- these are still super cute! In this one, Harriet takes on "Jack and the Beanstalk". The humour in this one, a lot of which had to do with the giant (a giant lop hare :D) having really stinky feet, but, OK, target audience. ( More, with mild spoilers, I guess? )

26. Cale Dietrich, The Love Interest -- cyanshadow brought it up for a possible synch read, and then ikel89 kept texting quotes at me, and I succumbed (story of my life). It was... OK, so, when I read Rebel a few weeks ago, that included an "Ember Island Players"-like interlude where Our Heroes go to watch a play based on "ancient literature" (the setting is post- ( Read more... )

(I'm not sure yet if I'll start cross-posting from DW for real, but I'm giving it another shot with the public posts, for now). \

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21. Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited -- Not as cute as Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda but still pretty darn cute, and I read the whole thing in one day, or little more than that. This is a book that's ( Read more... )