It's too cold and dark to do anything outside. NO TIME FOR RAIN. ONLY BOOKS. Book of the month: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, Emily Croy Barker What a terrible title for a wonderful book! Nora, a graduate student in English, accidentally falls through a portal to another world where she is enthralled …
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Books, October 2019
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 …
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 …
Books, April 2019
April marks the delightful (Seattle) Independent Bookstore Day, which this year was celebrated by 21 local bookstores (three of which have multiple locations) in Seattle and nearby areas. Visit 3, and get 30% off any one purchase at any one bookstore. Visit all 21, and get 25% off everywhere for a year. I cannot be …
Books, March 2019
The Hugo and Nebula award nominees are out this month! In addition to the many nominees I have read this year, I also am a HUGE fan of nominee Lindsay Ellis's video essays, and am just as much NOT a fan of the Hobbit movies as she is and extensively explains in her nominated piece. …
