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The Disinvited Guest and Sea of Tranquility: the pandemic books are upon us

I have been wanting to re-read Station 11 for a couple of years now, but I couldn't read a pandemic book during the pandemic. It's...

Ambitious people problems

Korelitz, Jean Hanff- The Plot Sathian, Sanjena- Gold Diggers These two books don't have anything to do with each other, really, but both...

Audiobook round-up

I'm completely addicted to having audiobooks on my phone all the time so I can listen in the car and while I'm doing my kitchen work. ...

Language studies and survival skills

The Latinist, The Lake of Dead Languages, A Dangerous Education By chance, I've read three books this month that are set in schools in...

Alphabet reading challenge: Q and R

Quentin, Patrick- A Puzzle for Fools Rao, Mahesh- Polite Society A Puzzle for Fools: This is a release from the American Mystery...

Goodreads list challenge: August and September

Yang, Susie- White Ivy Mascarenhas, Kate- The Psychology of Time Travel McDermid, Val- Northanger Abbey Moreno-Garcia, Silvia- Velvet Was...

Just because reading

Because, ooh, that sounds good right now is reason enough to go off my reading challenges. I'm really beginning to wish that hadn't set...

April '21 reading challenge round-up

Alphabet challenge: H: Hepworth, Sally- The Mother-in-Law My Goodreads list: Danforth, Emily- Plain Bad Heroines Nonfiction: Carson,...

March 2021: challenge check-in and a galley

Pre-pub galley Butler, Nickolas- Godspeed Alphabet challenge "E": Eberhart, Mignon G.- Murder by an Aristocrat "F": Feret-Fleury....

Mystery and suspense: One by One, Moonflower Murders, Crooked House

One by One, by Ruth Ware Moonflower Murders, by Anthony Horowitz Crooked House, by Agatha Christie One by One: This was disappointing,...

Mystery and Suspense: The Truants, The Thursday Murder Club, and Only Truth

The Truants- Kate Weinberg The Thursday Murder Club- Richard Osman Only Truth- Julie Cameron The Truants doesn't, I think, fall squarely...