You know what's great about regularly visiting your indie bookshop? The staff really gets to know you and figures out that you're a reliable human, so when you head downtown to the indie bookshop to order an expensive book with the really nice gift card you got a while back, and it's not until you've … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: September 12, 2021
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August Summary, September Preview
It's Spooky Season. It is. I don't care what the calendar says, it's September and it's Fall and it's Spooky Season. I am adamant about this, because I made it through the swampy weather that made up August, and now I am ready for Fall. August happened, and was full of my not wanting to … Continue reading August Summary, September Preview
Book Review: The Heron’s Cry
The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers #2)by Ann CleevesMystery384 pagesExpected publication date: September 7, 2021 by St. Martin's Press The quiet ease of north Devon's sultry summer is abruptly shattered one morning when Dr. Nigel Yeo is found dead in his daughter Eve's art studio, stabbed to death with a shard from one of Eve's blown … Continue reading Book Review: The Heron’s Cry
Sunday Sum-Up: August 29, 2021
Pumpkin spice lattes are back at Starbucks. Does this mean that Fall is here? Please tell me Fall is here. I am tired of all this 95°F weather (with the subsequent 108°F heat indices). Bring me Sweater Weather! And some rain. We need some rain. Anywho. As mentioned above, pumpkin spice lattes are back at … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 29, 2021
State of the ARC: August 2021
State of the ARC is a meme hosted by Avalinah’s Books in which we round up our ARCs and attempt to wrangle them into something approaching order. Sometimes it’s like herding cats. My virtual stack of ARCs is switfly growing smaller, and I am glad for that. It's fun to get advanced copies of books … Continue reading State of the ARC: August 2021
Book Review: The Real Valkyrie
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie BrownNonfiction/History336 pagesExpected publication date: August 31, 2021 by St. Martin's Press In 1889 in Birka, Sweden, archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe documented the grave of a highly-ranked warrior of tenth-century Norse society who had been buried with weapons, silk garments, and two horses among … Continue reading Book Review: The Real Valkyrie
Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
It's tomato season around here. I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Nebraska, everyone with a garden plants roughly one-hundred tomato plants, as though they expect that only one in five plants will produce anything. But of course, each plant produces enough for a dozen people, and so everyone goes … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
Book Review: Velvet was the Night
Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMystery/Noir304 pagesExpected publication date: August 17, 2021 by Del Rey In 1970s Mexico City, political unrest bubbled beneath the surface of everyday life, and sometime boiled over in the form of protests, riots, and violence. In the midst of this, El Elvis is part of a gang seeking to … Continue reading Book Review: Velvet was the Night
Sunday Sum-Up: August 8, 2021
Ever have one of those weeks where you have so many things you would like to finish, and then you manage to finish basically nothing? Yeah, last week was one of those weeks. Alas. But there was progress on pretty much everything, so it wasn't a total loss. It just felt like a multi-day continuation … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 8, 2021
July Summary, August Preview
And like that, July was over. And it was fine. An okay month weather-wise, reading-wise, craft-wise. Less so writing-wise, but I'll get that corrected. I did a lot less reading in July than I did in June, but that's to be expected, as I was taking part in the Shelf Space Discord server's Olympics Readathon, … Continue reading July Summary, August Preview
