My annual Blogo-Birthday Celebration has come to an end for another year. But the giveaways are all still active so please check out all the posts and possibilities!

And we have books! More books! Always books! (I also have a cat’s tail in my face.)

The most interesting title in this week’s batch is Better Living Through Birding. Two of my dear friends are avid birders, so my curiosity bump definitely itches over that one. A couple of other titles I’m really curious are the whole Time Traveler Professor series because they are Sherlock Holmes pastiches featuring Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the protagonists and Tsalmoth by Steven Brust as once upon a time I LOVED his Vlad Taltos series but haven’t been back in lo these many years.

The pretty cover award in this week’s batch goes to The Circumference of the World. I can’t wait to see if the book is as good as its cover!

For Review:
Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
Beyond the Reach of Earth (Lightspeed Trilogy #2) by Ken MacLeod
The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar
Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal
The Ghost Forest by Greg King
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester
The Pomegranate Gate (Mirror Realm Cycle #1) by Ariel Kaplan
Prophet by Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos #16) by Steven Brust
A War in Too Many Worlds (Time Traveler Professor #3) by Elizabeth Crowens
Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
The Iron Princess by Barbara Hambly
A Pocketful of Lodestones (Time Traveler Professor #2) by Elizabeth Crowens
Silent Meridian (Time Traveler Professor #1) by Elizabeth Crowens

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Happy April Fools’ Day! Here’s wishing you a day of jokes that are actually funny, and pranks that sit on the right side of the balance between embarrassment and laughter.

There’s no fooling around about the books on this list. There are LOTS of pretty covers to drool over, along with a few titles that I’m personally salivating over whether their covers are pretty or not. Of course, Gryphon in Light is both, pretty and much anticipated, at least by this reader. Under the Smokestrewn Sky is another in that category, with the added fillip that it’s the final book in the McGuire writing as Baker series, The Up-and-Under.

Which covers look pretty and/or interesting to you?

For Review:
The Bell in the Fog (Andy Mills #2) by Lev AC Rosen
Brave the Wild River by Melissa L. Sevigny
Dioramas by Blair Austin
Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken Trilogy #1) by RJ Barker
Gryphon in Light (Kelvren’s Saga #1, Valdemar (Publication order #56)) by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon
He Who Drowned the World (Radiant Emperor Duology #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Labyrinth’s Heart (Rook & Rose #3) by M.A. Carrick
The Midnight Kingdom (Dark Gods #2) by Tara Sim
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor
Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang
Under the Smokestrewn Sky (Up-and-Under #4) by Seanan McGuire writing as A. Deborah Baker
Why Beethoven by Norman Lebrecht

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis

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Well, this stack is certainly…eclectic to say the least. I picked up The Right Stuff because of The New Guys, Summer in Orcus because of Illuminations and Midnight, Water City (Water City Trilogy #1) because of Eventide, Water City (Water City Trilogy #2). Books are kind of like potato chips, in that I can’t grab just one!

There seem to be more pretty covers than usual this time around, but the book I’m most looking forward to is Cassiel’s Servant. I think there have been rumors about that book coming ‘real soon now’ for at least a decade if not longer, so I’m thrilled to have it in my hands at last!

For Review:
The Beach Reads Bookshop (Hometown Brothers #3) by Lee Tobin McClain
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Cassiel’s Servant (Kushiel’s Legacy #4) by Jacqueline Carey
The Comeback Cowboy (Jasper Creek #4) by Jackie Ashenden, Caitlin Crews, Nicole Helm, Maisey Yates
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Eventide, Water City (Water City Trilogy #2) by Chris McKinney
Fatal Legacy (Flavia Albia #11) by Lindsey Davis
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
The Isolated Séance (Irregular Detective #1) by Jeri Westerson
Monsters by Claire Dederer
A Rogue at Stonecliffe (Stonecliffe #2) by Candace Camp
Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz by Garth Nix
Sleeping with the Ancestors by Joseph McGill Jr., and Herb Frazier
Traffic by Ben Smith
The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang
Whispers at Dusk (Blackbird Trilogy #1) by Heather Graham

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Midnight, Water City (Water City Trilogy #1) by Chris McKinney
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher

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I’m looking forward to several books in this batch, but in completely different ways. The Court War because the first book, The Godstone – which at the time wasn’t obviously the first of anything – was a compelling hot mess and I want to see where things go next. Mammoths at the Gates because the Singing Hills Cycle has been lovely and awesome and fascinating, and The Splinter in the Sky because OMG the protagonist is a TEA expert and I can’t wait to see how that works in a space opera.

Come to think of it, Mammoths at the Gates is also a contender for the prettiest cover of the week, right along with The Berry Pickers – especially because all those luscious blueberries look delicious as well as pretty.

For Review:
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Better Left Unsaid by Tufayel Ahmed
Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy #1) by Ken MacLeod
Big Little Spells (Witchlore #2) by Hazel Beck
Blind Fear (Finn Thrillers #3) by Brandon Webb and John David Mann
The Court War (Godstone #2) by Violette Malan
Daughters of Muscadine by Monic Ductan
The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle
The Happiness Plan by Susan Mallery
The Horoscope Writer by Ash Bishop
Mammoths at the Gates (Singing Hills Cycle #4) by Nghi Vo
Marion Lane and the Raven’s Revenge (Marion Lane #3) by T.A. Willberg
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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After diving back into the Sebastian St. Cyr series a couple of weeks ago I decided to just go ahead and get the few in the middle that I had neither read nor already acquired. I know I’ll be getting around to them eventually so I figured I might as well just give in to the impulse.

The book I’m most looking forward to is, of course, Anna Hackett’s new SFR series opener, Knightmaster. I’ve already started and so far, so wonderful! I think the prettiest cover in this stack is Banyan Moon, but a case could certainly be made for The Witching Tide. We’ll just have to see whether the books inside those covers live up to them!

For Review:
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
Differ We Must by Steve Inskeep
The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat
Knightmaster (Oronis Knights #1) by Anna Hackett
The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb
Loot by Tania James
The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat
The People’s Hospital by Ricardo Nuila
Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Salt-Black Tree (Dead God’s Heart #2) by Lilith Saintcrow
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
When the Hibiscus Falls by M. Evelina Galang
The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Where the Dead Lie (Sebastian St. Cyr #12) by C.S. Harris
Who Buries the Dead (Sebastian St. Cyr #10) by C.S. Harris
Why Kings Confess (Sebastian St. Cyr #9) by C.S. Harris

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