As the days get longer, the stacks seem to get shorter. I wonder why? Even though I don’t have a lot this week, I do have one book that I’ve been looking forward to since last year: The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny. Her Inspector Gamache series is one of my all-time favorites. […]
Another blissfully short stack of books, or so it seems. I’ve mentioned before that I’m on the American Library Association Notable Books Council. It’s an awards jury for the 25-ish notable books of the year. While I can’t say which books are under consideration, I can show you this picture. I received ALL of these […]
Wow! This is a short list. I think it reflects the way that NetGalley and Edelweiss work. And the seasons. There isn’t as much published in the summer, and the eARCs are just dipping into September. There are even a few October books showing up, but not many. So we are mostly seeing June through […]
I pretty much did a happy dance around the office when the ARC for Armada popped up on Edelweiss this week. I adored Ready Player One, and can’t wait to see what Cline has come up with now. For Review: Armada by Ernest Cline Circling the Sun by Paula McLain The Conquering Dark (Crown & […]
The good and bad news about midnight impulse buying, all in one tidy list. This was a week where it seemed like everything I read was a mid-series book where I not only hadn’t read the previous books, but in some cases hadn’t even known there were previous books. After I finished each of them […]
This probably tells anyone anything they might want to know about what I think about the current chaotic state of this year’s Hugo Awards. Marko Kloos withdrew his nomination because his eligible book, Lines of Departure, was on the Puppy ballots. His full statement is on his blog, The Munchkin Wrangler, but the very short paraphrase […]
A big list, for reasons that will be revealed at some point in the future. Maybe. Resistance is probably futile in any case. I see books and I want to read them. All of them. The title on the list that I’ve been looking most forward to is The Talon of the Hawk by Jeffe […]
Today is the 4th anniversary of Reading Reality. 2011 seems like a LONG time ago. The official celebration (and giveaway) will be on Monday, April 6. I’m starting to measure my life in when we moved and where we were when “X” happened. When I started Reading Reality, we were living in Gainesville, FL. After […]
Early this week we went to a lecture/presentation by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the human star of the new Cosmos, among other fascinating achievements. If you are interested in science or space or simply an intelligent presentation, he’s definitely worth seeing if he comes to your city. He was fantastic. And he just added a whole bunch […]
I love our cats. I really do. Even when, sometimes especially when, they sit on my morning newspaper or try to get between my eyes and my iPad. That’s adorable. Howsomever, Mellie peed on my clothes last night. (No, I wasn’t wearing them, but still…) It’s moments like this that make me ask, “Why was […]