Dangit! As I was searching for info how to spell Patrick Stuart (I was too lazy to saunter over to the Fire on the Velvet Horizon in the shelf or the Veins of the Earth on the desk or to scroll back to the title page in the digital copy of this book) I accidentally read a huge spoiler. 🤦🏻♀️
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Sandra started reading Queen Mab's Palace by Patrick Stuart
I read the first few chapters of this one, too. And now I really need to stop adding books to the currently-reading pile!
So far this one is a li'l difficult and I'm still looking for a tension driver outside of the weird framework. But it's also super evocative.
I read the first few chapters of this one, too. And now I really need to stop adding books to the currently-reading pile!
So far this one is a li'l difficult and I'm still looking for a tension driver outside of the weird framework. But it's also super evocative.
Sandra started reading Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert(duplicate)
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set …
There's a bunch of duplicate entries for this book on here so I just picked one randomly. @smorkin@idiomdrottning.org just read it and then lent his copy to me. I've been on a "I don't want to start too many new books at the same time" kick lately and this might break the proverbial camel's back but first few chapters in I'm loving the book. Always wanted to read this series.
There's a bunch of duplicate entries for this book on here so I just picked one randomly. @smorkin@idiomdrottning.org just read it and then lent his copy to me. I've been on a "I don't want to start too many new books at the same time" kick lately and this might break the proverbial camel's back but first few chapters in I'm loving the book. Always wanted to read this series.
OMG I love it more for each reread. The more I learn about life, the more this novel has to tell me.
Sandra started reading Kallocain by Karin Boye
This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab …
My next audio book is a reread. I've read the paper book three times and listened to this audio book once before. But I can't afford buying new audio books all the time, I can't justify it w/o re-listens. And I love it so that's another plus
My next audio book is a reread. I've read the paper book three times and listened to this audio book once before. But I can't afford buying new audio books all the time, I can't justify it w/o re-listens. And I love it so that's another plus
Sandra started reading Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt
This one will take a long time to read because the device I put the ebook on isn't one of my main reading devices. Seems great so far
This one will take a long time to read because the device I put the ebook on isn't one of my main reading devices. Seems great so far
Just One Evil Act is a crime novel by Elizabeth George. It reached first place …
Horror cop
1 star
Content warning "Just one evil act" Ending spoiler and just all around spoiling the entire book
Wow, this just was one of the worst books I have ever read. Power-hungry cop takes the law into her own hands, kidnaps a child, and comes out smelling like roses. The tension driver is incredibly contrived—we know whodunnit, whydunnit, and howcatchem, but a journalist is being obtuse and wants to expose the story. And that same story beat is hammered again and again ad nauseam. Complete ex machina ending with the boss who's been on the trail of power-hungry cop revealed to actually been after her colleague whose investigation into the power-hungry cop was an "unlawful investigation" and the powerhungry cop's bribery, extortions, threats, lies, cover-ups, and human trafficking end up under rug swept and here's your medal good job. Clunky repetitive THAD-laden dialogue along with disparaging character descriptions and borderline racism.
Sandra finished reading Just One Evil Act (Inspector Lynley, #18) by Elizabeth George
Just One Evil Act (Inspector Lynley, #18) by Elizabeth George
Just One Evil Act is a crime novel by Elizabeth George. It reached first place on the 2013 best sellers …
Sandra finished reading Syster by Sofia Nordin
The second of the two books I got on Christmas. It was great. Love books where "screentime" is a big obsession and a big deal.
The second of the two books I got on Christmas. It was great. Love books where "screentime" is a big obsession and a big deal.
Sandra finished reading Atomer by Sofia Nordin
I got this for Christmas and read it right away. I loved it. (Except for the gross parts.) I was gifted another of her books too which I haven't started yet.
I got this for Christmas and read it right away. I loved it. (Except for the gross parts.) I was gifted another of her books too which I haven't started yet.
Sandra started reading Just One Evil Act (Inspector Lynley, #18) by Elizabeth George
Just One Evil Act is a crime novel by Elizabeth George. It reached first place …
And this is my current audio book. Starting a new audio book is fine, it doesn't compete with other reading time. I redownleaded Kallocain also (which I've read in paper a couple of times and as audio book once before) in case I need a spare one I can reread that. Not logging that one since I haven't started it.
I like this one so far.
And this is my current audio book. Starting a new audio book is fine, it doesn't compete with other reading time. I redownleaded Kallocain also (which I've read in paper a couple of times and as audio book once before) in case I need a spare one I can reread that. Not logging that one since I haven't started it.
I like this one so far.
Sandra started reading The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition …
I keep on starting books. I'm really in the mood for some Tolkien too, over Christmas. but I've got too many books started.
I keep on starting books. I'm really in the mood for some Tolkien too, over Christmas. but I've got too many books started.
Sandra started reading Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree, Jr.
James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, is widely considered to be …
I don't read a lot of prose right now (comics yes: I recently reread the entire Tuva series for example. But also video games and watching Against the Odds on YouTube) but I still started yet another book 🤦🏻♀️ without finishing any of the other started ones. (But, keeping track of them on here might help me get to them if I get in a book mood later.
Now, my rule is to only log books as started on here once I've read several pages, a chapter or so. There would be many many more if I counted reading half a page as starting a book. That's just how fluttery my mind is. And why sites like this are a good tool.
I haven't started a new audio book either. Been a li'l overwhelmed with podcasts 💁🏻♀️
I don't read a lot of prose right now (comics yes: I recently reread the entire Tuva series for example. But also video games and watching Against the Odds on YouTube) but I still started yet another book 🤦🏻♀️ without finishing any of the other started ones. (But, keeping track of them on here might help me get to them if I get in a book mood later.
Now, my rule is to only log books as started on here once I've read several pages, a chapter or so. There would be many many more if I counted reading half a page as starting a book. That's just how fluttery my mind is. And why sites like this are a good tool.
I haven't started a new audio book either. Been a li'l overwhelmed with podcasts 💁🏻♀️
Sandra started reading To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in …
I forgot to log that I started this one