Books

Oh, also thinking of Cold Days gives me an excuse to post a cat pic. This was Sarissa, named such after the character you meet in Cold Days.

Transformations, by Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood.

I started Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik last night. I barely started it and I’m glad I did. I love Mihalik’s work, she writes some really great space opera romance.

I started a book called The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Tutton because it became available at my library. I got about 40 pages in and I stopped because I’m just not feeling it at the moment. I’ll return it and try again another time because the premise of the book sounds really interesting. It kind of reminds me of The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, which I absolutely loved.

I finished The Illustrated Woman by Melissa Bobe. I loved the short stories in this, I also really enjoyed how it was set up; a woman is wandering through a carnival and finds a woman with magic tattoos that show her the stories of different women who have come to her and their struggles. There were 2 stories that I would love seeing turned into full novels because I found the world very interesting. Leave Your Fear, You’ll Be Just Fine was probably my favorite.

Project Hail Mary because of the upcoming movie.

Just finished the Dresden Files (1-18). Latest installment comes out in January. Was kinda addicted there for a minute.

Just finished The Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin. Detective/Horror which I didn't think would work so well.

Now trying to start a horror anthology called Howls from the Dark Ages. Also, the new Thursday Murder Club book just came out.

I’m up to the 7th of the 9 books in my Reread of the Fred the Vampire accountant series by Drew Hayes. I started November 1st after the final book was released. It’s as fun as I remember.

Ill Met in Lankhmar (1995) by Fritz Leiber in it's first unabridged german translation from 2004.

It is absurd, how underrated Leiber is up to this day. He was so much better than many of his contemporaries.

Been going thru the Discworld series in published order, and now on A Hat Full of Sky. I think it's #30ish out of 40ish in the series? It's taken a number of years, but I'm also getting a bit sad that I'm nearing the end and there won't be any more. Pratchett was a treasure.

The Book of Dust, Volume 3: The Rose Field

If you liked His Dark Materials this continuation of the story is pretty epic and the last book was just released!

Just finished CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a hilarious read. Revisiting Stiff by Mary Roach now, just because it's been a long time.

I've never read The Grapes of Wrath before, but now I'm about a quarter through it.

You can tell that Steinbeck really lived that hard depression life and had an abiding love for the other people who did too, warts and all.

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz. It's really good if you are interested in first hand accounts of colonial history but it can also be a tad anger inducing. The main characters lowkey suck

I am reading (maybe re-reading) The House of the Spirits. A friend said we read it in high school and I do remember reading One Hundred Years of Solitude in highschool as part of a magical realism unit but I can't really remember if I did the House of the Spirits. Its great and I can't put it down.

This Inevitable Ruin

Dungeon Crawler Carl #7