Here’s something that has changed under quarantine: I now place holds on books. I so rarely did it in the olden days! I used to go to the library every Saturday or every second Saturday, and I didn’t need to place holds, because there were always loads of amazing books to read. I would make a list of maybe five specific books that I wanted to get that day, and I’d get them, but then I spent most of my library trip trawling the New Books shelves in every genre. I had a system! Nonfiction first! Then regular fiction! Then…
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The NPR! Book! Concierge! Has arrived! It has arrived to gladden our days. I have been parceling it out to myself bit by bit to make it last, because NPR Book Concierge comes but once a year. When I have gone all the way through it, I will not have it again for so many years. Here it is (link). Be blessed with its bounty. Watch Ted Lasso, please. I beg you will watch Ted Lasso. I am saying this for your own good, because I want you to feel positive emotions in your life, and frankly where else can…
Leave a CommentWe have reached another Halloween in which I completely forgot/failed to read anything for RIP, despite its being one of my favorite blogging events! I suppose, in retrospect, that Lobizona totally counted. Why did I not call it an RIP read when I was reviewing it?? WHO AM I. October Reviews Well, obviously the biggest deal this month was that Megan Whalen Turner’s Return of the Thief came out, but I believe I have flailed about it sufficiently in its own post. I also read and adored Romina Garber’s werewolf YA novel, Lobizona, which has a pleasing amount of sportsball…
1 CommentI’ve probably said this before, but one of the most joyous things to me about the increasing author diversity in the SFF genre (slowly, slowly increasing) is the opportunity to see a wider range of authors take on familiar types of stories. To my immense delight, Romina Garber’s novel Lobizona has not just werewolves but a magic boarding school. This is great for me because while I have mixed feelings about Creatures, I adooooore a boarding school story and even more adore a magic boarding school story. Manu and her mother are undocumented immigrants, and Manu has spent the bulk…
Leave a CommentIt’s another Friday that feels like a Monday! Not in a good way! But this Friday-that-feels-like-Monday isn’t like the other Fridays-that-feel-like-Mondays, because today is Oscar Wilde’s birthday! Oscar Wilde’s birthday! He would be, let’s see, one hundred and sixty-six if he had not died tragically young of ?stomach cancer? and if he had also died of nothing else due to advances in science that allowed people to live to be sixty-six. Hooray! I also watched an episode of Star Trek: Discovery and it was x-tremely enjoyable and I was in favor of it. I have not seen other episodes of…
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