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ferrilibrarian · 7 years

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Reading is wonderful!

I’m having a lovely moment of reveling in the delights of reading. I’m enjoying different styles and genres and formats all at the same time. And it’s all just really, really satisfying.

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horowitz (print)

I had a goal this year to read some nonfiction that would situate and address the race relations in the United States today. Of course, it can be hard to get yourself to do the necessary, tough reading this requires. I’ve done better at reading some articles on the subject, but haven’t yet got myself into a book.

However, I have a simultaneous goal to read books off my own shelf this year (too much purchasing and never quite getting around to reading). So this book came off my shelf to get read without me even thinking too much about how it related to race relations today....it most certainly does (especially if you come from the Northwest US like me and don’t live in the emotionally intense history of the Civil War in the same immediate way as in other parts of this country). It’s very readable, and I’m rushing through it.

I just got notice from the library that my hold on Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson having arrived, and I am thinking that it will make a perfect follow up.

The Others series by Anne Bishop (print & ebooks)

I’ve been rereading this series since book five, Etched in Bone, dropped on March 7th. I got a copy a few days early at the Penguin Random House booth at Emerald City Comicon and tore through it. It’s apparently the last in the arc of that series that is going to be based on the lives of Meg and Simon in the Lakeside Courtyard, though the series will continue via other characters and locations.

I didn’t enjoy it as much as I’d hoped. I read an article about jumping into series midway that used this book as a touchstone. They enjoyed the book (I think more than I did), so I decided that maybe I was in the wrong place as a reader to enjoy this book - I knew just enough to be constantly nagged by all the characters and events from earlier books that I couldn’t quite remember. I’ve started at the beginning of the series for a reread. It’s different (less thrilling) on reread, but still satisfying.

I think a lot of romance readers enjoy this series, and though I read a romance now and again (see below), I enjoy worldbuilding in various types of fantasy more. This series has some weird inconsistencies and illogical bits in it’s worldbuilding, but I think it’s still very interesting stuff. And I like the decision to keep the pov close to the non-humans in the series (see this series review, which is also where I got the image).

Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English (audiobook)

I just started this audiobook last night, so I haven’t much to say about it yet (other than that the narrator, David Colacci, is quite good). What I will say is that I am not an audiobook listener generally, because I really struggle to pay attention. Yet this one got me hooked right away, and I think I will be loath to do anything too distracting while I listen. This book really makes me want to pay attention!

Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare (print)

Tessa Dare is the only romance author whose new books I usually try to read as they come out (at least her Spindle Cove series for sure). This is mostly based on the memory of how much I thoroughly enjoyed A Week to be Wicked. Yet none of her other books have been quite as good. This one, however, is a close contender and my favourite since reading A Week to be Wicked (and Goodreads reviewers do seem to agree with me, based on star rating for the series).

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