Small haul for Independant Bookstore Day, but I got to chat with one of the owners (who I hadn't seen in awhile) and the pen was on sale!

Shout out to a line that made me tear up in an airport!

I think Vaughn is kind of a dud, but sentient beings formed by the psychic internet make up for it

Just a fantastic time! First in a duology, so not exactly a HEA here, but this was absolute aces - love these three, love this world, can't wait to meet the Phoenix

I will never not laugh when the fire and earth dragon guy literally makes localized earthquakes while coming. Everyone else is right to give him shit for this! This book is Great

My god, Ged, just spoon this guy until your wife gets back!

Some specious taxonomy going on here...

Hey Eric, do you not want to talk to a reporter about what happened at the house or do you want to intimidate a librarian into telling you about what happened at the house? I feel you should pick one.

A much better outing for me than Dreaming of You, even if Ivo Jenner bites it. I don't have the love for Kleypas that some do, but I'm glad to have not disliked another one from her.

Hey, Ivo Jenner! My favorite guy from Dreaming of You! Oh no, you're dying???

BIG ups to this indie store I ordered this from shipping it early so that I could inhale it in less than 24 hours. Good stuff! At least my second favorite of the books of hers I've read.

Sitting here at working, thinking about coming home to having to read this book and thinking Ugh is a real dnf thought, so goodbye!

BOY this lady isn't very smart

I don't know if this was written after the Chris Evans will play Gene Kelly in a biopic news, but it does cast him in a fantasy about a remake of An American in Paris and: Chris Evans Doesn't Have Gene Kelly Energy

Cat Sebastien just -hits- for me, and this thing hit. Plot? Almost nonexistent. Vibes? Off the charts.

A soft sort of pick, because it's a propulsive read, very effective in that way, but man, fuck that dad. Fuck him.

Okay, he has an explanation for the lack of italics in the acknowledgements but I Do Not Understand It. The language became special to you, so it deserves to be unitalicized??

There haven't been too many yet, but to not italicize the scientific names is driving me nuts.

It's very weird to come out of a nearly 600 page book and just feel entirely neutral about it. Mostly I'm just relieved that I get to read something else now.

"Too much inclined to passive goodwill" - have you met yourself, Severian??

Thankful for Hoopla and audiobooks today, as I feel like shit but also I need to read this book that Is Not Grabbing me. I won't bail, because I really do want to keep up with Shelved by Genre, but if they weren't covering this book I'd let Severian's space travel remain a mystery.

Not as engaging as the first half of this saga, it's not like these two books are bad, but Citadel of the Autarch just didn't engage me the way the other books did. Severian, you are forever a little freak to me.

The Dark Fraction, eh? Good one. (Opening Barker, closing King, don't know if the skeleton center is anyone specific)

I had other plans for my 3 day weekend, but there are no regrets. Good book, good trilogy, can't wait to revisit it. (I'm fascinated to be reminded how Jack plays in the first one - I remember hating him. Sorry, Jack! You are a prick, though!).

I love these vampires, I love this book

I think this book is mostly pretty bad, but the deliciousness of Picard telling Q that passionate hate usually also indicates passionate love - my dude, are you hearing yourself? Talking to you most *ahem* hated guy??

"I can tell the women I've fucked apart, I promise."
Severian, you absolute freak, the book is nearly over and also, since you feel you have to state it, I'm not sure I believe you

This series casually dropping things like vivimancers, the opposite of necromancers (dead people who can summon the living who are, in turn, capable of summoning the dead back to life), is why it's cool.

It's a strange book, it's a lovely skeleton with some parts fleshed out in a way that tricks you into thinking you'll get to read new Discworld books forever. I think it's a fitting end, even if it's not a goodbye.
#OokBOokClub

Well, I guess the time has come.
This already feels unfinished/unpolished, but unlike Raising Steam (which pushed me away), this one more feels like a fable so far - I think this will work, for a witch story especially.
#OokBOokClub

Whoops, finished this last week and forgot to review! A weird book, I grew to enjoy it more and more, even if I don't always get how this Urth connects to ours. But texts don't exist to be solved, so that's fine. (Also, I recommend the podcast Shelved By Genre, who put forth that thesis.)

Another book club pick, this book is Fine but I don't think it really works. Way too much wind up for not enough pitch.

Signed up for a new book box that promises adult queer reads, it finally gets here today... and I got one of the wrong books, a YA novel, I think. I am now sitting with my disappointment.

Going to see Some Like It Hot in a romance novel, great choice!

Not going to review this one simply because I did not read it in an ideal way and also: what is there to say about it? If you like Ligotti it is A Lot of Ligotti; if you're new to Ligotti I'd probably say find something of his in another anthology? The stories are pretty similar, tonally and image-wise.

Tag yourself, I'm the one who glistens horribly like a rainbow of insects

Today I pre-ordered a book coming out a year from now because I saw this cover and thought "she's hot"
(The book is The Hades Calculus by Maria Ying)

The last time I watched and talked about Psycho I noticed this very thing, and I am shocked to see it mentioned here because he's right: nobody ever brings this part up

I love: them
(And I love how much this author loves Some Like It Hot)

Even reading a 2 page description/discussion of It's A Wonderful Life life is enough to make me cry, sap that I am.

One of the leads of this book calling Face/Off ridiculous and saying that's a bad thing????

My back hurts, so I'm sitting on the couch and reading and basically nothing else. Mermaid goes chomp.

University boy* for a university book.

*note: did not graduate university