Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done with the Grishaverse for a while but I hope not for always.

Finished reading: 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl 📚

Read this because it’s on Austin Kleon’s list of books about motherhood & art. But it held extra delight for me because it’s also about the theater.

Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and The Language of Thorns to give us the immersion of reading the same stories that the characters in the Grishaverse read.

Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚

I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused but that’s okay. 💀

Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey 📚

Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the imagination.

Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).

Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr 📚

An uplifting and compelling read. Herr documents her daughter’s successful climbing of the 48 NH mountains taller than 4000 ft. Highly recommend.

Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚

Super fun! Highly recommend.

Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚

Listened to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, which I think made it much more enjoyable than when I read it in print 20+ years ago. Highly recommend.

Finished reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King 📚

This dude is so prolific and so fun to read. I would like to write things that are fun to read.

Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales 📚

Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery: Succession by Kirsten Beyer 📚

I honestly don’t know how anyone is left living in the Terran Empire. Mirror Universe stuff stresses me out. But Discovery Annual #1 is chef’s kiss. Seeing how Paul and Hugh meet? 😍

Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless by Mike Johnson 📚

Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚

I love the way King has characters reference his own other work. “Like in that book, Carrie!”

Another, as W. puts it, compulsively readable book. A little chilling in its political prescience, really.

Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King 📚

I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 hours.

Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold 📚

The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.

Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚

Great fun with some good insights for the rest of life, not just puzzles.

Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter 📚

New (well, ~40 year old) takes on old fairytales. Gorgeous language.

Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull 📚

Rock music + fey = delightful.

Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques 📚

Cozy fantasy, just what I need right now.

Two quotes that stood out for me:

“Many times in our history has tragedy been forestalled by miraculous happenings.”

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep.”

Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Recommended. Full review coming in June.

Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare 📚

Review soon. On the All About Romance sensuality levels scale, this is Hot approaching Burning. Explicit descriptions & cheerfully racy banter.

Super fun, recommend if you like that heat level.

Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond 📚

Review coming soon!

Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?” by Susan Basalla 📚

Finished reading: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore 📚

Cashore’s GRACELING was the book that fixed me after THE NAME OF THE WIND broke me (because I love it so). This is the 4th book in the Graceling Realm series and while it took me a while to get into, I ended up loving it.