The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 6-1-24

Posted on June 2, 2024June 2, 2024 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

The attached picture isn’t exactly “Lazy Lions Lounging in the Local Library”, but it’s close. It’s clearly lazy kitties lounging on a willing human – and not that Chez Reading Reality doesn’t resemble a library!

Luna looks huge in this picture, but she’s actually the smallest of the three. Not that ANY of these three are actually small.

This past week, reading wise, turned out to be mostly interesting in all the ways that make “interesting” a euphemism. It ended up being a number of books that didn’t work as well as I’d hoped, and then one I turned to as a saving grace because this week required that something really good get read no matter how deep I had to dive into the virtually towering TBR pile!

I have much higher hopes for this coming week, if only because I’ve already finished most of the books!

Coming This Week:

Early Summer Giveaway Event
On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo (#BookReview)
The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond (#BookReview)
Fiasco by Constance Fay (#BookReview)
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (#BookReview)

Stacking the Shelves (603)

Posted on June 1, 2024May 31, 2024 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | Stacking the Shelves

What have we here? A stack of brand-new books – and not an overly tall stack at that. YAY!

There are more pretty covers than not this time around – although there are a couple of boring ones to balance them out. (We’ll just not say which ones they are so as not to embarrass them.) The prettiest covers, IMHO, are All the Water in the World and Saving Susy Sweetchild. Bonded in Death is an interesting cover, mostly because it looks like that long-running series has decided to change cover designs for this 60th entry in the series.

The book I’m most curious about is The Last Dangerous Visions, because that book has been in the works since the mid-1970s (!) The original editor, Harlan Ellison, died in 2018, many of the authors whose stories were supposed to have appeared have also died, and many of the stories intended for the book have been published elsewhere in the long interim. I’m curious as hell to see what finally made it into the book!

last dangerous visions by harlan ellison and j michael straczynski

saving susy sweetchild by barbara hambly

for such a time as this by elliot cosgrove

two wheels to freecom to arthur j magida

all the water in the world by eiren caffall

For Review:
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
Bonded in Death (In Death #60) by J.D. Robb
A Change of Place (Night’s Edge #3) by Julie E. Czerneda
For Such a Time as This by Elliot Cosgrove
The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynski
A Monsoon Rising (Hurricane Wars #2) by Thea Guanzon
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Saving Susy Sweetchild (Silver Screen Historical Mysteries #3) by Barbara Hambly
Splinter Effect (Splinter Effect #1) by Andrew Ludington
Two Wheels to Freedom by Arthur J. Magida

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Books and Broadswords, Volume One by Jessie Mihalik

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 5-26-24

Posted on May 26, 2024May 26, 2024 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand

This post is the result of a bit of serendipitous procrastination. Or that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I couldn’t quite decide EXACTLY what I’d be reading this week, particular as last week was a bit on the ‘meh’ side. I’m in the middle of three books, two of which I had bailed on at previous points in time, and it just wasn’t looking like a schedule that had the proverbial hope in hell of happening – even with Galen handling the Memorial Day Holiday post on Monday – for which I’m always both grateful and eager to see what he comes up with because they’re always interesting – especially when it takes me a minute or two to figure out how his starting point relates to the particular holiday.

I’ll certainly have things to say about the rest of the week’s books, as those two books I previously flailed and bailed on, while they did get better this time around, didn’t so much redeem the parts that made me bail as they merely got past them. You’ll see.

Speaking of, well, talking about various and sundry issues, this week’s cat picture is of the ‘young guns’ in this clowder, (left to right) George, Tuna and Luna. We think they’re out on the catio complaining about the neighbor cat that has been coming around and tearing at the screens in an attempt to get in on their very good thing. They don’t seem all that fussed about it – at least so far – but we’ve laid in a supply of screen repair patches, just in case!

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Moms Rock Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Spring 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop