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📚 Swordspoint (tagged), Sons and Lovers, The Sleeper and the Spindle (illustrated), Sense and Sensibility, The Sandman, Saga
✍️Dorothy L. Sayers
📺Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (Les Mondes Engloutis), Star Wars IV
🎤Sahara Hotnights
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Book: The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

Author: C.L. Polk

Show: The Perfect Match (gotta have my culinary dramas)

Singer: P!nk

Song: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (week after week, do my song choices scream ageing rocker, or do they scream ageing rocker?)

#manicmonday

Though there were many things I did like about this book, I just couldn't relate to the characters and their motivations. It seems a good example of “fantasy of manners“, but I don't normally read much in this subgenre.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#192025 #1987 @Librarybelle

This is interesting and sad, with great character development. It‘s a sequel but I read it as a stand alone. Katherine‘s family is being driven into bankruptcy by her uncle, the mad Duke, but when he promises to save their finances if she comes and learns to be a his sword fighter, her needy mother sends her off. She trains with the greats, learns more about her family‘s very dark past, and eventually starts on her own path. 3/5 stars.

#TBRPile 📚 “Snow was falling on Riverside, great white feather-puffs that veiled the cracks in the facades of the ruined houses, slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beam.”

I've been virtuous and gotten my workout for the day in already (Canadian winter style: I shoveled the driveway), and now my reading buddy says enough of this moving nonsense. I guess I have no choice but to sit here and read...

My first read of the new year is one I've been wanting to read for years. Only 2 chapters in, I'm loving it so far, so I think it will be a great choice for an immersive read to start the year.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!

#TBRPile 📚 On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword ⚔️ This sounds like a juicy political fantasy - anyone read it?

Yah I‘m going to set this one down for now. I for the life of me can not keep the female characters straight. They are either called by their names or their titles hardly ever by Title+Name so it‘s making it very confusing. There is LGBT rep but I haven‘t gotten far enough to know if it‘s good rep or not. I‘m gonna hold on to it and give it another try in a few months, but for now it‘s a DNF

It‘s been ages since my last #friyayintro.

1. TPotS FOR LIFE!!! I own three copies, as one must with all the best books.
2. RED FOR LIFE!!!
3. I‘m an awesome baker.
4. On it.