Been a long, long time since I've done this! But hello, it is Reading Wednesday!

What are you reading?

The audiobook of George Saunders' Lincoln at the Bardo. I suspect I wouldn't have the patience or sustained interest to read this in physical form, but the full-cast audiobook production is sufficiently engaging to keep me interested. I'm about two ( Read more... )

Last week was a virtuous, satisfying week, for the most part! I felt productive and pleasantly occupied, and it was just nice.

• I wrote 6,463 words! And I wrote every single day. So NaNoWriMo has clearly helped me back into the groove.
• I finished three books!
  
  • [redacted] for potential Yuletide purposes. Alas, I did not actually enjoy this one.
  • My ( Read more... )

So I've been listening to The Martian audiobook for the past couple of weeks, in anticipation of the upcoming movie, which Sebastian Stan is in (among other people, just, y'know, a bunch of Oscar winning and Oscar nominated actors, whatever). Because it is the rare non-MCU movie Sebastian Stan has been cast in that is not totally terrible, ( Read more... )

I'm SO BEHIND on this oh my god. Further attempts to catch up on my book blogging below.

Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch: The latest in the Peter Grant Rivers of London series, which felt a bit filler-y after the last book, and was distinctly lacking in Nightingale to my dismay, but Peter is one of those narrators who it's just nice to spend ( Read more... )

I have been intermittently weepy about the news all day. I don't think I had quite realized until today just how much his work has meant to me, how much it's shaped the way I think and feel about the world. But I've been reading Discworld since I was 10 or 11 years old, and Terry Pratchett has seen me through a lot of life lessons. I'm very sad ( Read more... )

I sadly did not meet by goal of reading 52 books last year, because I hit a reading rut where nothing kept my interest and I was books behind anyway. Ah well. Still reading more than the average person! Anyway, stuff I did manage to read:

Laura's Wolf by Lia Silver: Pleasantly tropey but fairly smart with it contemporary paranormal werewolf ( Read more... )

I did not mean to be AWOL from posting for so long! November is going by weirdly fast, I can't believe next week is Thanksgiving. That means December is also coming fast and omg I need to catch up on on my book reading goal for the year. Also my book blogging. To that end, stuff I have read recently ( Read more... )

Ahahaha, books what books? ;_____; I am so behind on my reading goal, let us not speak of it. Anyway, here's some stuff I've read in the past....four months.

Ghost Planet by Sharon Lynn Fisher had a really fascinating premise with sadly not great execution. Psychologist Elizabeth Cole takes a job on a recently colonized world, where every ( Read more... )

I am behind on my book blogging! I should rectify that before my reading habits become all Captain America 2 all the time.

Heirs of Grace by Tim Pratt: I saw this recommended somewhere but I can't remember where, and it was available for free via the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. Art school grad Bekah inherits a small fortune and a mysterious ( Read more... )

I picked up Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni when it was on sale at Amazon, and it was a good choice. I really enjoyed it, and highly recommend it! The Golem and the Jinni is, no surprise, about a golem and jinni who end up in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Chava the golem was created to be a wife to her master, but when he ( Read more... )