Stay tuned for a very special book surprise coming in December! (If I say it out loud, then I'll get it done. Right?) Book of the month: The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson Hill House is THE ghost story of the 20th century and a perfect atmospheric Halloween read (despite the fact that it …
Category: Books
Books, September 2019
September's book bounty leads to October's challenge: review all these books in just two sentences each. I hoped brevity would be the soul of wit, but instead, just exacerbated my tendency to misuse parentheses. Book of the month: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller * When I say that The Song of Achilles was nearly …
Books, August 2019
Seattle Public Library's summer book bingo 2019 is ended at Labor Day... and I got blackout! It's not just about reading the 24 books (actually 23 this year) to complete the board: since most books could count for multiple squares, it's about working out the best placement for each title. I had to fill it …
Books, July 2019
As you have no doubt heard, local bookstores are on the way out, millennials don't read, and also libraries are a waste. Of course, common sense is not so common and a citation is needed on those claims. That said, Amazon controls about 2/3 of book sales and something like 90%+ of ebook sales, and …
Books, halfway through 2019
It's halfway through the year, which means it's time for LIBRO-STAT-MANIA 2019 (part 1)! First, some basic stats: Books read: 37 (that's a book finished every 4.91 days, though as I've written before I don't directly track amount of time to finish)Pages: 10051 (average of 271.6 pages per book)Average publication date: 1997Newest book: Live and …
Books, June 2019
Head over to the other post for the mid-2019 analysis. Book of the month: Circe, Madeline Miller I have a confession to make: I accidentally joined a book club - that's not the confession, sometimes life's just like that - and I have spent three months not writing about the books from book club! But …
Books, May 2019
You know the feeling of returning a library book, when there's people in the hold queue after you, and you know they're about to get the notification their book is ready for them? Especially if it's an ebook, and they'll get the book itself literally the instant you return it? If you don't, I suggest …
