Big news in Seattle — Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl! Also someone hit my car very gently while turning into my subdivision, which was a bit scary. Otherwise I cooked some and ran some.

thinks I am currently reading 57 books, which is higher than the truth but I’m trying to mark things as done. The library thinks I have 52 books checked out but nothing overdue.

Books Completed January 23 - 29

The Martian, Andy Weir. This was a fun reread, and it’s the sort of book that pairs well with the movie, which I also watched. It was interesting to see what worked for both kinds of art, the suspenseful pages that would have been boring on screen, of the vivid impact of movie events and explosions. Both are good entertainment. foolscap bookclub was pleased.

Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea, Ashley Herring Blake. I liked the exploration of the girls feelings as things change and she encounters kindred spirits.

The Book That Wouldn't Burn, Mark Lawrence. This was fun but it had many pages. So many pages.

Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 1, R.L. Stine. This was not fun but I read it.

Books Started

Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea, Ashley Herring Blake. Maybe this was a Cybils nominee?

Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 1, R.L. Stine. Still working through this series.

A Little Too Familiar, Lish McBride. I think this was for the romance book group.

Self Love Poetry, Melody Godfred. For Torches and Pitchforks kicking off our Making Things Better year.

Bookmarks Moved

Promise the Night, Michaela MacColl

The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

Ascendance of a Bookworm, Fanbook 7, Miya Kazuki

Gold Dust, Catherine Asaro

The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne

Flor Fights Back, Joy Michael Ellison

Fair Trade, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years, John Scalzi

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell

Bookmarks Languished

I have given up on a few of these, actually.

Calypso, Oliver K Langmead

The Hunger and the Dusk, G. Willow Wilson

Speculative Whiteness, Jordan S. Carroll

Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum

Death in the Spires, K.J. Charles

Read Dangerously, Azar Nifisi

The Last Witchfinder, James K. Morrow. Scintillation book club.

An Exchange of Hostages, Susan R. Matthews

So Let Them Burn, Kamilah Cole

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

The Library of Borrowed Hearts, Lucy Gilmore

Lepunia: Kingdom of the Gallopers, Kevin Ford

The Gilded Crown, Marianne Gordon

The Morgaine Chronicles, C.J. Cherry

Champion of Fate, Kendare Blake

Thea and the Mischief Makers, Tracy Badua. Cybils nominee I started last year.

Blood at the Root, LaDarrion Williams

Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer

One Jump Ahead, Mark L Von Name

Ariel, Sylvia Plath. Poetry book from my shelves

Picture Books, Poems, and Short Stories

None.

Books on Slow Mode

Home Comforts, Cheryl Mendleson. I read one section a day. On to ventilation and heating! Apparently 61 degrees Fahrenheit is a good temperature for healthy adults.

50 Great Poets, ed. Milton Crane. Mail bribe. Hopkins is hard core.

The Writer's Stance: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines, Dorothy U. Seyler. Mail bribe.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James. The ending moves back to the personal.

War Cross, Marie Lu. Mail bribe. My gaming is not on this level.

Teaching With Caldecott Books, Scholastic books. Mail bribe. Good chapters about things to do after and while reading the books.