Not bad for the week between Xmas and New Year’s! There were a couple of days when it looked like NetGalley and Edelweiss were both hibernating for the winter (or at least the week) and who would blame them? For Review: A Front Page Affair (Kitty Weeks #1) by Radha Vatsal Ironheart by Nico Rosso […]
I woke up in the middle of the night dreaming that the room was spinning. I woke up and it was! I have positional vertigo. If I lean sideways, or lay on my side, the room spins until I throw up. And I’ve just discovered that writing about the experience ALSO makes the room spin! […]
This is going to sound strange, but I’ve discovered that the grid works best with prime numbers. 11 and 13 actually look good, but 12 leaves a single really, really huge picture at the bottom. So I often find myself on Friday hunting for a 7th or 11th or 13th book to add to the […]
Discovering how to do a gallery in WordPress was the best thing ever! Especially for weeks when I managed to add a metric butt-load of books to the virtually toppling TBR stack! Or at least it felt like a lot of books as the list grew this week. Even though Xmas and New Year’s are […]
We have lucky 13 in this week’s shelf stack. Considering that this is two weeks’ worth of stack, that isn’t too bad. The most interesting book in the pile, at least for this week, is Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye. It’s a very alternate take on Jane Eyre, with this Jane coming to be governess […]
This was not a good week, bookish-wise. I had a couple of days where absolutely nothing I was planning to read looked remotely appealing, and I bounced around Goodreads and Amazon and my TBR pile trying to find something that would capture my attention. My inability to settle on a book is definitely reflected in […]
A short stack, just like the pancakes I had for breakfast this morning. We were away last week, getting my mom settled in her new apartment at an assisted living place. And we were away the week before at a conference. Home never looked quite as good as it did when we pulled into the […]
I’m writing this while I’m taking up space in a computer coding hackaway. Everyone has a computer, everyone is working, I’m just working on something slightly different from the rest of the crowd. By the time you read this, I’ll be back home. I miss the cats. But traveling always reminds me how much easier […]
Not much of a haul this week. And that’s a good thing. The really interesting book in this list is Dickon, at least as a concept. For one thing, it was originally published in 1929. It’s obviously taken a while to get the ebook rights figured out! But I picked it for the contents. It’s […]
A short but hopefully interesting stack. I fully admit that I picked up The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu on the strength of the title, but it’s a true story about saving cultural treasures from ideological (and definitely physical) destruction. And I got Notorious RBG just before it dropped out of Edelweiss after reading Sisters In […]