Finished reading
Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson 📚
Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.
Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚
Another fun one. Poirot has more heart here.
Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚
Wow, that went fast. Super fun.
Finished reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚
I love it so much. Sweet, hot but closed doors, I really do wish Carrigan’s was a real place, that Noelle and Miriam were real and I could be friends with them. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚
Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it because of the cover & buzz. I stayed in it because of the magic of connection & my love of kind teen girls with a sense of justice. Gorgeous, evocative writing, highly recommend.
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.”