Hours the thirteenth through eighteenth.
And thence to bed. I got really wrapped up in The Trespasser. SOMEBODY HERE IS CROOKED. And my copy is trade paperback, so the pages take forEVER to read and I kept thinking I was nearly done but...
View ArticleHours eleventh and twelfth!
I got into the Halloween candy, witness the evidence of my shame. But my sister threw a stew into the crock pot this morning so I dumped a bunch of brothy meat down my throat and now I feel amazing....
View ArticleHours ninth and tenth.
I keep feeling like I time-warped a little bit. It's 3pm! Jane, our gracious hostess and resident sleeper-inner has joined us downstairs, my sister is taking a break from reading to do some art, I did...
View ArticleHours the seventh and eighth!
It's afternoon, all of a sudden! I took the smallest nap. And then had a coffee and another cinnamon bunlette with my Tana French. This is going to be my Rest Of The Daylight book because it's a long...
View ArticleHours the fifth and sixth!
Where is this day going. Ten minutes ago, the lake was all misty fog and foggy mist and now the clouds are breaking up!I pulled out some cinnamon buns but they had to RISE and then to BAKE so I had...
View ArticleHours the third and fourth!
Readathons make me HONGRY, all this sitting here and using my eyeballs for stuff, but I think it's just the proximity to snax. Probably I could use a cookie, all I've had in the last two hours is some...
View ArticleHours the first and also second!
I had the nestiest bednest going but I had brought the fourth Phoebe and Her Unicorn book upstairs for my Morning Read and IT IS ONLY LIKE A HALF-HOUR READ so I had to recreate my bednest downstairs....
View ArticleReadathon!
You guysssssss! I am doing a readathon! It has been so long. I had thought about firing up the oldblog earlier this week, shake off the cobwebs, complain about how bad the new Connie Willis is, but I...
View ArticleJane Steele - Lyndsay Faye
A loose retelling of Jane Eyre except she kills a lot of people (she's not, like, a swift-handed crimestress, which is what I had sort of been led to believe. She's just a woman who finds herself in...
View ArticleCarry On, Warrior - Glennon Doyle Melton
This is the kind of living your best, most honest, most vulnerable, most connected life-type memoir I can get behind. PEOPLE SAYING TRUE SHIT ABOUT STUFF and also about being generous and gentle with...
View ArticleImaginary Girls - Nova Ren Suma
HAHHAHAHHAHA remember when all book covers looked like this?2011 was a weird year for girls on book covers.ANYWAY. I dunno. I think I read this and The Walls Around Us too close together, because they...
View ArticleHouse of Havoc: How to Make - and Keep - a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap...
Dis. Bish.I was librarygooglesearching for a book someone else recommended to me and this came up in the listing, and I was like Hullo I have a spouse and some kids and my house is havoc, this is...
View ArticleAn Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir
Ughhhhhhhh this book. I don't hate romance in books, but I EXTRA HATE when a pretty good premise - young girl's brother is captured by guards, and in order to secure the aid of The Resistance in...
View ArticleAstonish Me - Maggie Shipshead
Been reading a lot of ballet novels lately, I dunno what's up. This was a surprisingly prosaic little novel about ballet and betrayal and cutthroatedness and it did not, as they say, astonish me (omg...
View ArticleGone, Baby, Gone - Denis Lehane
THIS WAS A HUGE DOWNER OMG.UGH I FEEL YOU GEORGE MICHAELIf you're not in the mood to read a story about child-kidnapping that ends depressingly for FUCKING EVERYONE, maybe steer clear. I'm so bummed...
View ArticleThe Walls Around Us - Nova Ren Suma
THIS is the ballerina-based revenge novel I have spent my life not knowing I needed. OMG THIS WAS SO GOOD. I don't even know what to say except like bwarrrrr killer ballerinas and ghosts and shit i...
View ArticleTiny Pretty Things - Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra
This was the boringest ballerina-based revenge plot of my life. HNGHHHHHHH IT JUST WENT ON AND ON FOREVVVVER. It's like 6000 pages long, and the same boring shit keeps happening. Someone is jealous of...
View ArticleThe Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Are you going to get foreboding, dramatically compelling Ishiguro like in Never Let Me Go? Or is it going to be boring, dreary Ishiguro like in Nocturnes? Or will it be me probably remembering Ishiguro...
View ArticleCrazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Are these Asians crazy rich? Or is it that these rich Asians are crazy? KIND OF BOTH.Buncha Asians are crazy rich, like buy-a-hotel-because-the-concierge-insulted-your-wife-and-you-want-to-fire-him...
View ArticleThe Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1: Squirrel Power - Ryan North
EVERYTHING IS AMAZING. Comics are killing me right now. I'm going to read this to Eleanor when she wakes up, and she is going to love it.Doreen is a human-squirrel with the body of a human and the...
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