Fiction

#Readathon: The Woman of Andros

2022, Books in Bed, Classics, Dewey's Readathon, Fiction /

Last night, I wandered around my bookshelves looking for a middle grade or YA book I hadn’t read. Something I could use as a palate cleanser… I didn’t find that. But I did notice The Woman of Andros in the Penguin Books section of my rainbow shelves and realized I’d never read it. Since it was short, I added it to my stacks and for some reason woke up this morning and decided to start with that. Weird but quick and easy if a little deep and desperate. Those Greeks, y’all.

But that’s 80 pages and one book finished, just a few hours into the morning. I’ll take it.

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Tess of the Road

2019, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Cybil Challenge, Favorites, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

Every now and then, for years, TW has asked me if there are any more Seraphina books.. I dutifully look, even though there just never are any… and suddenly, there was! It’s not really a Seraphina book, but it’s a book about one of Seraphina’s sister. Turns out, Tess of the Road is the 2018 Cybils YA Speculative Fiction winner.

We listened to it on audio, as we did the Seraphina books, and liked it a lot, maybe more than I liked the Seraphina books. I hope there’s a sequel.

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#Readathon: One Book Down

2019, Books in Bed, Dewey's Readathon, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult /

We’re what, five hours into the #readathon and I just finished my first book. A List of Cages – heartbreaking and frustrating and horrible and wonderful all at the same time.

I had powdered sugar donuts for breakfast, a brownie for a pre-lunch snack, and then a couple of Publix tenders for lunch. I’m starting my next book and opened a bottle of Green Machine and have some Bordeaux cookies calling my name. (TW finished a book and then started a nap, lol.)

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Property of the Rebel Librarian

2019, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Fiction /

TW read Property of the Rebel Librarian before me and she kept ranting about the horrible things that were happening in the book and how horrible the adults were and on and on and on… she’s right. Horrible things happened and (most) of the adults were horrible.

Censorship is horrible. Banning books is horrible. It was all horrible… but I enjoyed reading it and wanted to sit down and read (or re-read) every book mentioned.

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Everlasting Nora

2019, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Favorites, Fiction /

I thought Everlasting Nora was a Cybil but it doesn’t seem to be. No idea how I stumbled across it but I’m glad I did. I enjoyed the story quite a bit and the Manila setting and Tagalog sprinkled throughout the story was fantastic. (There’s a glossary in the back but I was pleased I didn’t need it. I think there was only one word I didn’t know – a type of plant I’d never heard of.) Did you know people live (sometimes for generations) in Manila cemeteries?

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Six Children’s Books…

2019, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Favorites, Fiction, Non-Fiction /

JMP came for a sleepover/Grandma Camp, so we read a bunch of children’s books:

– Pete the Cat: Three Bite Rule because JMP is a picky eater and also sometimes needs to be coaxed to try things that are new to him. This was a fun book and he was willing to try a few “new” foods when we sang, “three bite rule!”

– Because I knew TW was going to talk to him about planning/planting their garden, I grabbed The Rosy, Fat, Magenta Radish and Big Red Barn from our shelves and The Carrot Seed from the library. (TW and Pippin actually planted carrots and radishes yesterday!)

– We read How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World and attempted (badly) to make some paper airplanes from The Kids’ Guide to Paper Airplanes.

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Dreams of Falling

2019, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women /

Another Karen White book set in South Carolina. Georgetown, this time. I liked Dreams of Falling, though I did find it just a little bit slow. I also didn’t really love Larkin and was a lot more invested in Bitty, CeeCee, and Margaret – even Ivy was more interesting than Larkin.

More important than this book is that I just realized I missed some of the Tradd Street books and there’s another book co-written by WIllig, Williams, and White. Must reserve, soon!

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