I jinxed the weather. February brings the snow.

I’m enjoying all my book clubs, but they are making my resolution to read from my shelves harder. Also I need to start tracking my library visits because I’m forgetting where I’ve been.

One book club has switched to watching *The Good Place* so that’s helping with my time management as well as being a fun group watch.

Books Completed Jan 24 - 30

Prince For Sale, Caroline Gibson. Reread. This is a romance book that started as Marvel fanfic and had the serial numbers rubbed off. I like the fanfic and enjoyed seeing how she rewrote some things to make it her own.

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse, Athena Aktipis. For Torches and Pitchforks book club. This was a fun book, and it has me inspired to get back to some prepped things that require maintenance, like my go bags. But as the book club decided, it’s not so much the boom to grab in the apocalypse but the book to remind you to get a book to grab for the apocalypse. Or perhaps several different books to be prepared for different kinds of problems. Like a robot takeover of the world!

The Prince’s Fate, Caroline Gibson. This follows on directly from the first. . I don’t like it as much as I find the idea of zygotes with personalities kinda creepy. I don’t actually want people inside me to have memories of their parasitic stage. But the evil parents stuff is fun, and then the forest ranger is obviously a chance for more porn.

Devil’s Cub, Georgette Heyer. I got bogged down doing a rereads for book club (Red Flag themed) because I’m embarrassed during the scene where she pretends to be her sister. But as soon as you push past that to him kidnapping her it gets much better. They start to be hilarious together. Like he’s kidnapping her onto his sexy yacht as he flees to France, and as they cast off he saunters into the cabin to have his wicked way, and she has forgotten the gun she smuggled aboard because she is very sea sick, which comes as a shock to him and definitely interrupts his wicked-waying.

Books Started

The Prince’s Fate, Caroline Gibson. Reread.

Pizzasaurus Rex, Justin Wagner. Reading My Library Quest, Renton Highlands version.

The Emperor and the Endless Palace, Justinian Huang. Cloudy book club.

The Marine’s E-Mail Order Bride, Cora Seton. Romance book club: Wills trope.

Bookmarks Moved

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell. For Scintillation book club.

Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor. Sword and Laser club pick. (Audio)

Lamplighters, D. M. Cornish.

In Limbo, Deb J.J. Lee.

Notes From the Air, John Ashbery. Poetry.

Deal With the Devil, Kit Rocha.

Rescue, Jennifer Nielsen.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler.

Samantha Smee: A Pirate’s Life, M.C. Dingman.

Airs Above the Ground, Mary Stewart.

Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan.

Bookmarks Languished

I have not given up on these! Ignore all evidence.

Poppy and Marigold, Meg Welch Dendler.

Serpent Rider, Yxavel Magno Diño.

True Colors, Abby Cooper.

Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby.

Into the Broken Lands, Tanya Huff

Poems, R. Hawley Truax. I’m back to the library poems.

Marry Me By Midnight, Felicia Grossmann. For Romance Book Club (fairy tale retelling).

Picture Books and Short Stories

None that I noticed.

Books on Slow Mode

Home Comforts, Cheryl Mendleson. I read one section a day. Tea stuff.

The Adventures of Amina Al-Serafi, Shannon Chakraborty. Shenanigans!

At the Feet of the Sun, Victoria Goddard. This guy had a real concussion, not a TV head bonk.

50 Great Poets, ed. Milton Crane (no picture). Mail bribe.

The Writer's Stance: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines, Dorothy U. Seyler. (no picture). Mail bribe.

The Road to Mars, Eric Idle. Mail bribe.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon. Mail bribe.

War Cross, Marie Lu. Mail bribe. I’m getting too curmudgeonly for YA.

Teaching With Caldecott Books, Scholastic books. Mail bribe. Neither of my kids learned to read with these methods, but it would have helped them understand story structure.

Year of Wonder, Clemency Burton-Hill. Mail bribe. I’m so far behind that I might catch up to myself.