The fascinating book in this list is the audio of Brent Spiner’s Fan Fiction. I don’t even HAVE the ebook. Honestly I wasn’t planning to read the book at all. BUUUUUT it’s a full cast recording with the cast of Star Trek Next Generation along with a few others. When I saw THAT I couldn’t […]
Not that I’m not looking forward to reading every single book in this stack, sooner or later, but there are a couple I’m way more excited about than the rest. One is The Sacred Bridge, the 25th book in the Leaphorn, Chee and now also Manuelito series by Anne Hillerman, taking over for her late […]
All of a sudden, I can get audiobooks on NetGalley. It’s so hard not to let the temptation get out of hand, and it’s not easy resisting the impulse to get, well, everything. I’m listening to Under the Whispering Door now, and Nothing But Blackened Teeth is next. I’m kind of counting on my usual […]
I just realized that this list makes it look like I cut off half the alphabet – except for that one book I got from the library. Looks kind of weird, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles, or at least that’s the way the titles fell out this week. For Review: An Impossible Impostor […]
Today marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. 9/11 feels like one of those watershed moments, the kind where you remember where you were, what you were doing, who you were with, for the rest of your life. I know I do. But also, how soon we forget. It feels both like yesterday and like a […]
For those in the U.S., Labor Day is on Monday and for many people it’s a 3-day weekend. That’s always worth a YAY, especially since I prep these posts on FriYAY. Here at Chez Reading Reality, it makes for a nice long weekend to read a bunch of books, write up a bunch of stuff, […]
First of all, the lists are getting shorter. It’s that time of year, which probably sounds strange. But not a lot comes out in December and January, and that’s affecting what’s available in NetGalley and Edelweiss. I have some eARCs as far out as May, but that’s so far out they don’t have covers yet! […]
Today (Friday as I write this) has just been one of those days. It feels like I take two steps forward and one step back – or possibly the other way around. Or both! It’s a dance! No wait, it’s just the usual insanity. So many books, so many reviews to write, so little time. […]
There are some series, particularly fantasy and science fiction series, that just work better for me in audio. Sometimes it’s because they’re narrated in the first person, like the Iron Druid Chronicles, and I just really like that feeling of the protagonist telling me a story. Others I started in audio and now those series […]
I write these up the day before, and I have to admit that I’m having a TGIF moment this afternoon. Not the restaurant, rather the feeling that this has already been a week and a half for no particular reason and thank goodness it’s over. Some really fascinating books crossed the transom this week so […]