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“One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
🔖📝 Read An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write.
I love to write in a library carrel. More than once I’ve considered getting one for our home office. I wonder if my favorite local library branch has them. I haven’t noticed. Next time I’m there, I’ll check.
Finished reading: The Master by Kresley Cole 📚
Over here fantasizing about spending my own money on ModCloth and eShakti dresses, as well as having a place to wear them. 👗
Finished reading: The Professional by Kresley Cole 📚
I finished this in just a couple of days. Definitely read the info on the author’s website before picking this one up.
One of the cool things about kids is that some are obsessed with stuff like Pokémon and some are obsessed with stuff like cats, while still others are obsessed with ancient Rome and yet others are obsessed with sea shanties. And some love more than one of these or something else entirely.
Finished reading: Munro by Kresley Cole 📚
The heroine in this one is a time-traveling Transylvanian knife-throwing carnie so, you know, she’s awesome.
🔖🧶 Read This Is Your Brain on Fibre by Michelle Woodvine (Digits & Threads).
A great article that explores a lot of the reasons fiber crafting is good for our mental health.
Finished reading: Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole 📚
This is a banger of a Beauty and the Beast retelling, with an ending I radically prefer to the Disney version. Highly recommend.
🔖 Read You are having a midlife crisis. It’s fine.
This is an interesting pairing with The Cut’s The Case for Marrying an Older Man.
The former points out that a woman partying at midlife is not, in fact, a revolution. Which pairs fascinatingly with the latter’s framing of being a young artist supported by a partner as a brilliant life hack. I’m curious what the author of the latter’s midlife crisis will look like.
Finished reading: Shadow’s Seduction by Kresley Cole 📚
It took me a long time to get into this one and it’s not as strong as a lot of the other Immortals After Dark books, but I still ended up liking it.
Finished reading: Shadow’s Claim by Kresley Cole 📚
I really liked this one, the way the main characters interact with each other is both sweet and hot. I’ve only got 4 books left before I’m caught up on the Immortals After Dark series.
Finished reading: Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole 📚
“She’d thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was—the choice they’d made to love each other.”
Loved it.
Happy First Contact Day, y’all! Only 39 years until warp flight & meeting Vulcans! 🖖🏻
Nap first or eat first? The Kimberly Hirsh story
Finished reading: Dark Skye by Kresley Cole 📚
Other people seem to hate this one but I like it pretty well. Lanthe and Thronos’s story is epic, spanning years and continents. Lives ruined. Blood shed. Worth a try if you’re making your way through Immortals After Dark.
📚 When I’m catching up on a long-running series, I sometimes forget that there are people who, for example, couldn’t read 19 Immortals After Dark books in a row and, in fact, had to wait a year or more for the next one to come out, and that I, too, can wait.
Did you know that April is School Library Month? It’s true! Did you know that I’m trained as and have worked as a school librarian? Also true!
Finished reading: Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas 📚
A lovely historical about an author and a publisher who fall in lust and then love. Her body is described as voluptuous, bountiful, abundant, generous. It’s clear that these are attractive things for her to be. Quite spicy. Content warning: miscarriage.
Finished reading: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 📚
A lovely romance novel with an autistic heroine. I highlighted a lot.
Finished reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl 📚
We went to see Matilda the Musical and I loved it. I’d watched the Netflix movie of the musical and years ago the movie with Mara Wilson, but I’d never actually read the book. It’s a lovely book but I think the musical is even better.
Finished reading: MacRieve by Kresley Cole 📚
This one is beautifully done as always. There’s a traumatic backstory of childhood sexual abuse for the hero and the way it impacts his relationship with the protagonist broke my heart. But of course there’s a happy ending because romance. ♥️
🔖 Read Why I Celebrate The Spring Equinox As The Real “New Year”.
I really love this. I want to live more in line with the seasons. Spring is a great time to make the changes so many people want to make in the new year: eat more produce, move around more.