The Year in Non Fiction
It’s nearly November, that means it’s time for Nonfiction November! This week’s prompt is hosted by Kim @ Sophisticated Dorkiness . What was your favourite nonfiction read of the year? Angela Saini’s Inferior was a fascinating look at the bias at work in science, specifically…
Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?
Olive wasn’t trying to kill herself, she just wanted all the noise to stop. Well that’s what she tells herself and her family when she’s committed to A&E. Her doctor thinks she would be a great candidate for an experimental programme, a summer camp for…
Quickie Reviews
For those that don’t know, Saga is on hiatus and we have no idea how long we have to wait for the story to continue. Saga volume 9 kept being touted as about fake news and I’m not sure I really got that. It did…
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are my favourite celebrity couple. I don’t really have favourite celebrity couples so that’s saying something. Their joint biography is made to be listened to. I’m not really sure how it would work in print, because it’s very conversational and…
#Readathon Wrap-Up
Local time: 13:00 Hours spent reading: 15 Pages read since last update: 684 Total pages: 1312 Total books: 4 Currently reading: Tamed by Alice Roberts Books read: The Extinction Trials by S.M. Wilson, On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden, Planetfall by Emma Newman + Monstress:…
#readathon: hour thirteen
Local time: 01:00 Hours spent reading: 10 Pages read since last update: 216 Total pages: 628 Total books: 2 Currently reading: The Extinction Trials by S.M. Wilson Books read: Planetfall by Emma Newman + Monstress: Haven by Majorie Liu + Sana Takeda I had loads…
#readathon: hour nine
Local time: 21:00 Hours spent reading: 7 Pages read since last update: 224 Total pages: 412 Total books: 2 Currently reading: The Extinction Trials by S.M. Wilson Books read: Planetfall by Emma Newman + Monstress: Haven by Majorie Liu + Sana Takeda I am half…
#readathon: hour five
Local time: 17:00 Hours spent reading: 4 Pages read since last update: 188 Total pages: 188 Total books: 1 Books read: Planetfall by Emma Newman First book down! I tried to get Scully to cooperate for a book and pet photo but in every photo…
Get ready to #readathon
Local start time: 13:00 Total pages: 0 Total books: 0 Starting book: Planetfall by Emma Newman I think it’s the first time I’ve not made sure I’m starting a new book on readathon day. I’m half way through Planetfall so I’m going to finish it…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…