No Wind of Blame
I finally finished No Wind of Blame, which I started on Kindle during the October #readathon. I love Georgette Heyer and this was a fun read, though I really feel like I might have read it before. It all felt familiar to me.
Fiction
Three Children’s Books
Three books, two of them Cybils – one audio or all three audio, depending upon your POV.
Dory Fantasmagory was cute. I’d probably kill her if she were my kid, hah. A combination of all three little kids in one. Hoo… lol
We listened to Chicken Squad: The Second Misadventure on audio before we got the first one (the problem with reserving all the things at once at the library is the first book often comes later than the others in the series, lol.) It was cute. Weird blue chickens are weird and brothers are trouble. 😉
Then, the Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure arrived in print and I read that one and was amused. Squirrels are weird.
The most interesting thing about these three books is that two of them arrived in print, though I reserved the audio versions… then I noticed they both had the audio versions tucked into a pocket in the the back of the book. I like this idea a lot for this reading level.
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
I finally finished The Watchmaker of Filigree Street — gosh that took a long time to read. It started slowly for me, or maybe I was just tired, and then moved really quickly and I couldn’t put it down.
The only thing I didn’t like is not knowing how Mori got the power … that’s it, that’s all I wanted to know, in the end. Hmph.
I enjoyed it. Also, the octopus! Gah.
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Language Arts
Oh good grief, this book, Language Arts made me nuts. Not in a bad way. It took me a whole week to read it, not because it was hard to read or boring but because I kept having to put it down to ponder the story. Or to think about cursive handwriting. Or to research the history of Language Arts in elementary school curriculum.
Also… I didn’t see THAT coming, though I should have because TW made a couple of comments about “the daughter”. I should have realized something like that had to have happened. But that would be too nutty to even comprehend.
Anyway. I liked the book. It’s troubling in about a million different ways. Now I want a Palmer Method workbook and to just make loops all the time or at least until I’ve solved all of the big mysteries of life.
#readathon…. 16 hours and out…
Alrighty, I’m calling it a night.
I finished 2 non-fiction and 1 fiction/short story (the most recent was Herotica 2 and it was fine, not the best but not bad, either) and 7 children’s fiction. I’m 2/3 of the way through an ebook and my eyes are too tired to finish tonight.
Total page count… 1,621. Not bad, all things considered. And, it was a very nice day. I’m looking forward to spring, now.
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15 hours in, 7 more books (#readathon)
I finished seven children’s books (from the Cybils shortlist) while listening to the Cubs lose. (wah!) 777 pages…
The best of the bunch was Knock, Knock: MY Dad’s Dream for Me — heartbreaker.
I liked Here Comes the Easter Cat a lot more than I expected to. Totally fun. JMP needs this book.
Lulu and the Rabbit Next Door was super cut.
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake was pretty cute. I enjoyed it.
I’m a big Violet Mackerel fan so Violet Mackerel’s Possible Friend was terrific. I love Violet and her family.
I was most disappointed by The Lion Who Stole My Arm. It was fine but I expected more.
I did not particularly love Lulu’s Mysterious Mission. It was fine. Just not great.
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Church of Marvels
Church of Marvels was good but a little long in a couple of places, for me. It seemed to take forever to move through part 2 of the story.
I think the author did a nice job with the trans character and all of the characters, actually. I’m glad I read it, even though I wasn’t saying that a couple of days ago when I felt like it was just dragging.
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Secondhand Souls
How I love Christopher Moore. Secondhand Souls was a long time coming but so worth the wait. I actually liked it better than Dirty Job and that’s saying quite a lot.
Little Paris Bookshop
The Little Paris Bookshop is a very pretty book. Love and loss and all of the feelings…
“Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.”
“Love is a house. Everything in the house should be used – nothing mothballed or ‘spared.’ Only if we fully inhabit a house, shunning no room and no door, are we truly alive. Arguing and touching each other tenderly are both important, so are holding each other tight and pushing the other away. We must use absolutely every one of love’s rooms. If not, ghosts and rumors will thrive. Neglected rooms and houses can become treacherous and foul…”
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Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
I really liked Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. Do not drink bats. Also, the whole loophole in the Fair Pay Act thing scared the holy hell out of me. I can see some asshat white dudes with power thinking this is a good idea.
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