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77. K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun -- I saw
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Ugh, why is cross-posting not working on this...

70. Ellen Klages, White Sands, Red Menace -- the second book in the Gordon Family saga of historical kidlit books, set shortly after The Green Glass Sea. ( I enjoyed this one, too (spoilers) )

1. Ben Aaronovitch, Detective Stories (RoL comic #4) -- also the last currently-out thing in terms of in-universe chronology, the only one taking place after The Hanging Tree. Unlike the first three books, it's a collection of short stories (four individual ones) linked by the framing narrative of Peter's final interview in the process of getting ( Read more... )

I'm way behind on RL posting (my past week and weekend have actually bee quite busy, in a mostly-good way), but I've hit another point where I just want to talk about books. So!

37. Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue -- This was a birthday present from aome, but actually even before I got the book as a gift I heard about it from ikel89 ( Read more... )

It has been roughly a million years since my last reading roundup, even though I have been reading a bit. Trying to catch up on the writing up side of it:

29. Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station (Rivers of London novella, # 5.7 according to Goodreads, which I guess puts it before The Hanging Tree?) -- cute, short and sweet, a sort of side story ( Read more... )

I am so behind on reading, you guys... Partly it's work being crazy, but mostly it's the phone, quite honestly. Well, that, and feeling sort of adrift, fannishly -- nothing I've read recently has really grabbed me, and I haven't even managed to finish watching a movie since Moana, like 2 months ago. But I finally managed to scrape up a couple of ( Read more... )

Another clearing of the decks, fannishly, before I dive into Yuletide reading -- the two books I've finished recently (though there should be at least one and maybe two more for the year, since I'm in the middle of several).

75. Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet -- I'd seen this book pop up on my flist several times, so when it ( Read more... )

I have two weeks of life stuff to catch up on at this point, but meanwhile, I really want to talk about non-RL stuff, books and movies and things.

So we went to see Doctor Strange last weekend. B found the movie too bloody (the hospital parts) and too strange weird for his taste, but O and I really liked it. And I'm very glad we saw it a) in ( Read more... )

51. Rainbow Rowell, Landline -- after finishing Carry On and Eleanor and Park, I was reminded by ms_geekette that Rowell had also written some adult titles. Attachments, which I also want to read, actually sounded more interesting, but Landline was on sale for like two bucks, so I went with that one. Apparently it was 2014 Goodreads Choice best fiction winner ( Read more... )

60. Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant/RoL #5) -- So I was seeing all these reaction posts pop up on my flist, because people unfairly live in countries where they can walk into a store and buy this book BEFORE the UK release date, as opposed to having to wait until January, like here (though the US version -- now with actual pretty ( Read more... )