On my way up to teach in Corvallis, I finished listening to the very good Flight Paths, by Rebecca Heisman, and then I have several books on tap ... but I decided to start listening to the incredibly great Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock, which begins on Halloween, for the return trip. #AmReading#Halloween#AmListening@bookstodon
OK, it's official - 37% in and I love @scalzi KPS. Even if the last 2/3 is worse than anything Dan Brown ever inflicted on the world, the sheer delight of seeing a Māori character using the Māori name for his homeland in a book written by someone neither tangata whenua nor tangata Tiriti guarantees KPS a whole heap of aroha from me. #Aotearoa#TeReo#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
My plan for the extra hour in bed today is to read my Braille book (Revolutionary Road by Richard Yeates) and jot down some thoughts on Less which I’ve just finished and didn’t want to end! #bookstodon#AmReading@bookstodon
What a happy coincidence that #TheStoryGraph pulled Las Vegas Noir from my TBR for me to read. I'm off to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for work. The city - or at least the part we see the most - is constantly reinventing itself, so the #LasVegas represented in this book is very different from the one that exists now, 15 years after it was published.
In this anxious time of destruction and war I couldn't handle any extra load. T. Kingfisher with this (mostly) low stakes cozy romance, was all I could handle. She helped me wined down and get some rest.
There is something compelling about women with sensitive noses and chivalrous knights. (See also, Clockwork Boys).
I enjoyed this book very much. I always like books where the story is told from different perspectives. In this case three members of a Canadian family in the late 1960s.
It is very well written. Lawson doesn't need all kinds of bells and whistles. The writing is straightforward, almost unobtrusively good.
I finished my last novel for this spooky season this morning. Fittingly, it was "I'm Thinking of Ending Things":
No monsters to be found in this one 😐
The story kept me guessing for a long time 👍👍
The only reason this doesn't immediately beat "Red X" and "The Between" for the best novel this season is because I guessed the ending a little early. Still, a thrilling and interesting read!
@iwashyna@bookstodon Finally my public library had After Sappho on the shelf! #AmReading these smart and beautifully written, challenging, and inter-related 'cascading vignettes' of #women's lives. 'Tho things have changed on the surface, we all need to pay attention to the genitive. The masculine continues as "the patron and the possessor and the proprietor and the patriarch" in too many women's lives.