I read When We Wake (the first book in the series) because another of the books from the series is on the Cybils shortlist and I hate reading series books out of order.
This one wasn’t bad. Interesting premise. Also interesting ideas about what the future looks like. I enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to the next book.
One of our favorite series to listen to on audio is The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. We absolutely love them and The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe was excellent.
I particularly enjoyed that Charlie plays a prominent role in this story and I think maybe he grows up just a wee bit more in the process. I think Mma Makutsi might have grown up a little bit, too…
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I’ve been talking a lot about having chickens someday… like next year, when we leave Chicagoland. During one of these periods when I was talking about chickens, my mom sent me a link to The Chicken Keeper’s Problem Solver and I said I’d have to check it out later since it was only available for pre-order.
Time passes and my mom texts me to tell me she sent me a present and it will arrive on Sunday. It did and it was that book!
I read it straight through and was reminded again of how little I know about chickens. Hah. Because I know so little about chickens, I’m not really sure if this is a good and useful book or not. It felt like a good and useful book, so I gave it 4 stars on Goodreads.
It also was a little bit scary of a scary book– because all the bad things can happen! Gah. I guess if bad things do happen, I’ll have this book to help me figure out how to solve the problem, right? Assuming this is a good and helpful book, which I think it probably is. I’ll let you know in a year or two.
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Explore Mixed Media Collage was pretty good. The projects themselves weren’t really my style and none of the techniques were new to me — but, it was a pretty book and there were bits and pieces of projects that I really liked and will probably end up doing myself, at some point.
Then, Leonard Nimoy died and TW said RESERVE ALL THE BOOKS so I reserved all the books available in my library system. Turns out the books she wanted weren’t in our library system so, poop. I’ve already seen a zillion images from The Full Body Project but figured what the heck — I have the book. Nimoy died. I’ll read it. And it was ok. I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. I’m not sorry I read it.
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Awhile back, I was looking for a book to read and remembered that TW liked The Dress Shop of Dreams — she said something about it being Sarah Addison Allen-like. So, I read it. And, it took forever for me to finish — which is crazy because it’s not really long and it’s not a bad back. There just end up being a lot of characters and they’re all pretty much falling apart or tearing their lives apart in order to put them back together and it all felt exhausting to me. So, I felt like I needed to read it in short chunks, at least til the end when everyone’s life got put back into proper order and such.
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I would very much like to know how I found Hell on Wheels, since it’s like the 9th book in the series, it seems somewhat unlikely that I reserved it based on a series recommendation. Maybe I just picked it up from the new arrivals shelf? I don’t know but I loved it.
I really like Odelia Grey. I like the body positive female sleuth. I like her paraplegic husband. I like pretty much everything about it and will have to go back and read the whole series.
I really enjoyed The Castle Behind Thorns. I started it late in the evening and didn’t want to put it down to go to bed. Lots of magic and lessons about life and friendship and forgiveness.
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Oh boy. 10 books. I knew it was bad but I didn’t realize it was that bad. Yikes. Oh well, such is life….
5 were from the Cybils shortlist
4 were graphic novels
3 were audiobooks
1 was non-fiction
1 was YA.
A well-rounded ten books but still, sheesh. Must do better in March, haha.
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I’m only about a month late but I’ve started the whole Cybils shortlist thing and am slowly making a dent in the list. Graphic novels were a good way to dive in.
El Deafo was excellent. Really. I wasn’t sure I was going to like it — so much hype around it! But, it was well deserved hype.
Bad Machinery: The Case of the Good Boy, sigh. I just don’t like Bad Machinery. I don’t get why everyone else does. This one was better than the last one I read (or tried to read) but I had to force myself to get through this one, too. If it makes the Cybils next year, I’m just not going to read it. Blah.
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War — I liked it. The art was excellent.
Bird & Squirrel on Ice was super cute. I particularly like Sakari and her role in the story.
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First… OMG I read a book. A real live book with pages and stuff! Yippee! It had been so long, I wasn’t sure I actually liked reading anymore. (Kidding. Mostly.)
Anyway, Boys of Blur is from the Cybils shortlist and it was good. Also creepy, as books set in the swamps of Florida can often be. It was a quick read and exactly right for my still not quite back from vacation/caught up at work attention span.