Kimberly Hirsh

My Child Woke Me Up at 1:30 and I’m Still Awake at 4: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

PS If you’re wondering why I’m still awake at 4 it’s because my mom keeps having miserable side effects from the TKIs for her leukemia and then I worry and my body goes into anxiety mode. Also all my dreams now are stress dreams and I don’t want them.

Currently reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚

Another pre-movie watch read.

Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie 📚

Another fun one. Poirot has more heart here.

Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson 📚

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Finished reading: Hilda and the Stone Forest: Hilda Book 5 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚

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Finished reading: Hilda and the Black Hound: Hilda Book 4 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚

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Finished reading: Hilda and the Midnight Giant: Hilda Book 2 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚

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Finished reading: Hilda and the Troll: Hilda Book 1 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson 📚

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Finished reading: Rose (New Poets of America) by Li-Young Lee 📚

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Finished reading: Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson 📚

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Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath by Kirsten Beyer 📚

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Finished reading: The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚

Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post. It was a re-read.

Finished reading: Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! by Joanna Penn 📚

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Finished reading: Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur 📚

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I’m calling it for the year. I’m not going to try to squeeze one more in before the end of the day tomorrow. When I wrote my year in reading post on December 2, I’d read 46 books this year. I’ve read 5 more since. I’ve also got a nifty new Micro.blog plug-in that will show you the covers of all the books I read.

Not a lot has changed in terms of my favorites since that original post. Hildafolk and The Bloody Chamber continue to be standouts. I’m very happy to be caught up on Leigh Bardugo just in time to get behind again when my preorder for Hell Bent comes in.

Season of Love is a recent favorite. Raybearer was super compelling and as I’ve started the sequel, that’ll probably be my next finished read.

I’ve got Bloodmarked on hold but it’s a wait of about 14 weeks. (I’m going to buy the paperback when it comes out so it’ll match my copy of Legendborn.)

Here’s all the books I read this year:

Cat help me, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole that is Benoit Blanc/Phillip fluff and I’m very happy here.

Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚

Wow, that went fast. Super fun.

Part of me wants to take all my favorite character tropes and rewrite them as mom. Mom detective. Mom swashbuckler. Mom grand dame. Just a bunch of early-30s to early-40s people having adventures with babies strapped to their chests.

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.

Currently reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 📚

Reading in advance of watching the Branagh film.

🔖📚 Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger.

This is a beautiful and perfect Gideon the Ninth mall employee AU. Gideon works at Spencer Gifts. Harrow works at Hot Topic. And my boy Palamedes works at B&N, of course.

📚 I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the first is that there’s a Veronica Mars reference and a shout-out to the coolest member of the Babysitters Club on the same page.

🍿 Watched Glass Onion. Had fun. Still adore Benoit Blanc.

Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚

I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I picked it up yesterday afternoon.