Happy Pi Day! Happy St Patrick’s Day! I hope everyone celebrated just as they like. I had pizza on pi day, from a new place because we like to honor my mom by eating at new restaurants. We had a good book club discussing the coffee food cart mysteries. And the I had a good time at the library book club, although when they announced I had suggested the book (I had utterly forgotten) I was petrified that every had hated it. And then they made me go first!
That book club is made even better by the giant tree that crashed down across the river a few months ago. I guess the city sent some people out to trim off a few branches but most of it is still there enhancing the River environment and slowly swinging around. Eventually it will have to pass under the river and head for Lake Washington.
Wow, it’s Wednesday and I’m getting this out! It’s supposed to be part of the It’s Monday What Are You Reading thing and maybe next week I can join back in!
I think I am now reading 62 books, according to goodreads. Maybe I’ll get some reading done in April, which has a lot of vacations baked in.
Books Completed March 14-20
Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy. Mostly fascinating account of what happened, how it happened, why the information was so slow to trickle out, who was responsible, who got blamed, and the lasting political, social, environmental and medical effects. Reading this while headlines of the accidental firing of nuclear safety engineers came out was sort of surreal.
Ascendancy of a Bookworm: Short Story Collection Volume 2, Miya Kazuki. What can I say? I’m addicted. The author does a really good job of showing how various events are understood from various perspectives, which is cool. Also, Myne is awesome.
Masters in this Hall, K.J. Charles. Sweet novella with a guy caught up in a mess, and his lover who gets hurt by it, and how they extricate themselves with some old friends of the reader (not their old friends; they don’t like him at all).
The Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley. River Runs Under It Book Club pick. I zipped through but slipped the bits I remembered well. I had forgotten that I suggested this to the club! Thank goodness most people liked it. We did think it started slowly; it’s doing several different things (a mystery, a coming of age, grief processing, Indian tribal politics) so there was a lot to lay out before things started rolling. But that meant there were a lot of ways into the book. Also, we are a pretty old group so anything YA is going to be a bit tiring.
Stacey’s Mistake (Babysitter Club), Ann M. Martin. This is number 18, so it’s a known quantity. As a person who visiting her New York cousins as a kid, I enjoyed my nostalgia at seeing the New Yorker swing from pride at showing off her city to cringing at hanging out with all the tourists. I liked the babysitting stuff as usual; I always like when they have to deal with a giant crowd of kids.
Books Started
Saving Verakko, Victoria Avelina. I won’t finish this in time for the Romance bookclub.
Baby-Sitter’s On Board (Baby-Sitter’s Club Super Special), Ann M. Martin. I have no idea what super-special means in this context.
Bookmarks Moved
The Caphelon, Fletcher DeLancey.
The City and the City, China Mieville. Sword and Laser Book Club.
The Fall of Roe, Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerner. Torches & Pitchforks book club pick.
American Smooth, Rita Dove. My next poetry book.
The Rook, Daniel O’Malley. (Audio)
Nova, Samuel R. Delaney.
Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros.
An Immense World, Ed Yong.
Airs Above the Ground, Mary Stewart.
The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild 2), Pari Thomson. Kidlit fantasy.
Tinker, Wen Spencer. Audio.
Bookmarks Languished
I have not given up on these! Ignore all evidence.
Poppy and Marigold, Meg Welch Dendler.
Serpent Rider, Yxavel Magno Diño.
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby.
Into the Broken Lands, Tanya Huff
Samantha Smee: A Pirate’s Life, M.C. Dingman.
Into the Vast Nothing, J. Bruno.
Marry Me By Midnight, Felicia Grossmann.
Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan.
True Colors, Abby Cooper.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell.
Lamplighters, D. M. Cornish.
The Night Librarian, Christopher Lincoln.
South Riding, Winifred Holtby. Scintillation book club. I did not finish in time.
Books Acquired
From the library:
Just Saying, Ray Armantrout.
For my shelves:
The Invention of the Renaissance, Ada Palmer.
Picture Books and Short Stories
None.
Books on Slow Mode
Home Comforts, Cheryl Mendleson. I read one section a day. Dishes and how to wash them.
At the Feet of the Sun, Victoria Goddard. Kip meeting his heroes is hilarious.
50 Great Poets, ed. Milton Crane (no picture). Mail bribe. Poe.
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. Home stretch.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon. Mail bribe.
War Cross, Marie Lu. Mail bribe.
Teaching With Caldecott Books, Scholastic books. Mail bribe.
Year of Wonder, Clemency Burton-Hill. Mail bribe. Made it to November.
Future Plans
This is for the actual future, so a week beyond the books in this post. It is also probably wrong.
I am reading:
- Book I own: What Makes This Book So Great
- Library Book: The City Beyond the Sea
- Ebook I own: Airs Above the Ground
- Foolscap Book Club Book: Movie Month! Nausicaä
- Sword and Laser Club Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Scintillation Book Club: Tam Lin
- Cloudy Book Club: Lore of the Wilds
- Torches and Pitchfork Book Club: The Fall of Roe
- River Runs Under It Book Club: The Diamond Eye
- Talbot Hill Book: Scary Stories For Young Foxes and Bad Guys
- Friday Book Club: Lavender Blue
- Romance Book Club: Mythology based romance
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