Welcome to Litsy!

Jazz and magic and Peter Grant right in the middle of it all.

Includes a trip to the Bodleian Library.

#SeriesLove2024
@TheSpineView @Andrew65

Finished this all about jazz and the death that consumes some jazz musicians is this a normal read… not really but I really loved the story 🙌🏽📖

I think this is the first time I've ever recommended the audio book as the best way to consume a novel. While I enjoyed the first in the series that way out for conveniences this second one confirmed: the narrator for this series is superlative, and as I'm not from London, the accent is a shortcut to steeping me in the geography, culture and history the author/main character regularly refers to. 1/?

#Moon 🌙 #AutumnPlease 👻🎃🕷️🤍🧡🖤

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

"Moon Over Soho" is pure magic meets London's quirky crime scene. Ben Aaronovitch's clever writing, led by the witty Peter Grant, takes you on a wild, supernatural jazz-infused ride through the city. If you're into supernatural mysteries with a quirky twist, dive right in! ??‍♂️???‍♀️

Again: apparently the way to make me care about crime is making it magical. I still like how much extremely situated this series is, but unlike in the first one, I solved part of the mystery before the main character, which was somewhat annoying. I'm really assuming part of the plot will be returned to in later books, it's not the kind of shit you drop and abandon.

Ben Aaronowitch telling it like it is (I cackled)

"The yap would be an SI unit, of course, and thus the standard background ambience of a central London pub was 0.2 of a yap (0.2Y), or 200 milliyaps (200mY). Having established that to my satisfaction, I finished my half-pint and headed downstairs to the basement, where they kept the jazz."

I‘ve been to SoHo in Manhattan, but not to Soho in London…yet. #moon #summerspecial

#wondrouswednesday thanks for the tag @Eggs 1. Spring, chips, blue, peony, UK, Diet Pepsi, Wordle. 2.the tagged audiobook - love the Rivers of London series

#Moon 🌙 #OminousOctober 🐈‍⬛👻🎃🖤🤍🧡

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

This is such a fun series. More magic, a couple of decent mysteries - even if Peter is really slow to catch on in this one - and an introduction to a mysterious villain. I‘m really enjoying the magical world Aaronovitch is building.

This commute to my current interpreting assignment is giving me some serious reading time, so I'm about to finish the second book in the series.
It's much mellower than other urban fantasy series I've rrad, but I like the characters and the mix of science and magic.

#BookReport - Finished 4 books this week! So not too shabby!

Currently reading The Golden Hour and listening to Death in the Clouds on audio. (I like this cover better than the one on GR).

#WeeklyForecast Not sure how much reading I‘ll get done this week, but hopefully a lot! Hoping to pick Small Favor and When the Stars Go Dark back up!

I‘m really enjoying this series, especially on audio! Though this one creeped me out a bit with one of the voices he had to do. It just went through me the wrong way and really freaked me out. I know it wasn‘t supposed to, but it sure did!

I‘m really enjoying Peter and his magical journey through London and solving crimes. I‘m glad I started this one.

Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England is certainly magical.
#MayCharacters #magic
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

4/5⭐️

Better than the first in the series. It fully picks up where the first book left off so definitely read in order. Now that the characters and their roles are established, we‘ve got a story with a much better flow than Midnight Riot IMO. As before, lots of action, plenty of shady people to cast suspicion on. And have we been introduced to a series supervillain?? Solid read, will definitely continue this series.

January book report time! I finished the tagged book just in time to score a bingo 😊

8 books - 3 off my shelves, 5 Ebooks, 2 from the library
2 for #AAMNKJ
6 for #SeriesRead2021
1 for #NewYearWhoDis (more to come)
4 for #Booked2021
And a whopping $30.83 saved for #PennyPerPage
#BookBan2021 holding up so far, haven‘t yet succumbed to the checkout button on Book Outlet).

#weekendmood
Aiming to finish tagged book for #seriesread2021 and Hollow Kingdom for #NewYearWhoDis over the weekend. Too easily distracted by tiny dog having dream twitches against my legs lol.
#dogsoflitsy

My first #LitsyAtoZ read. TBH I am finding it a bit slow, but on the upside it's good bedtime reading.u

I have selected 26 authors who have been on my TBR for quite a while. It was fun creating my stack. Q was a compromise couldn't find an author.
part 1 A to P
#LitsyAtoZ
@BookishMarginalia

1. Declutter my desk
2. Chocolate
3. Anytime at all
#motivationalmonday
@Jenw88 @cupcake12

It starts with a dead jazz musician and rapidly adds a rogue wizard killed by some kind of succubus, no idea what‘s happening but I can sense how it might come together. Delightfully dark and madcap. The view is my husband‘s pandemic home office.

#ThinkPositiveBePositive is difficult when anxiety/chronic pain/pandemic fatigue/young children gang up against you. It‘s amazing when you finally find your purpose in life & this year, my purpose was researching, applying for, & receiving from the manufacturer just this weekend a bronze plaque for my #DAR chapter‘s organizing regent. Now to get it installed. I could do this sort of work all day everyday.

Another solid Rivers of London book. I appreciate a second book that doesn‘t re-explain everything from the first. This is one of those. It included & developed characters from the 1st book & left a few mysteries to be further unraveled. I pretty much guessed the culprit, but still enjoyed the ride. I mean, come on: jazz vampires?💯😁 I couldn‘t renew my library copy, so I grabbed the audio from Libby for the 2nd half—enjoyed that format as well!

“You can‘t call them black magicians,” I said.
“You realize that we‘re using black in its metaphorical sense here,” said Nightingale.
“It doesn‘t matter, I said. “Words change what they mean, don‘t they? Some people would call me a black magician.”
...
“What should we call them?” he asked patiently.
“Ethically challenged magical practitioners,” I said.

He has a point. But still: 🤣

Moon Over Soho is my current audio, the others I‘m picking away at physically. Really enjoying all three.

Words matter!

I didn't enjoy this book so much as the first one in the series. Of course, it's usually the case that sequels are not so good as the original and that goes for both movies and books. It is still worth a read, though. The story continues to follow Peter Grant as he tries to track down a gang of rogue vampires. I mean really, who doesn't love vampires? 🌟🌟🌟

Really enjoyed this one! Aaronovitch‘s snarky humour is right up my alley. The story is just the right side of absurd, barely escaping ridiculous. Love the fact that it is sprinkled with random snippets about London and the English.

If the acknowledgment makes you smile you‘ll probably like the book too🤩

Love Aaronovitch‘s snarky humor🤩
I‘m probably missing some of the puns because I‘m not that familiar with London, but this one brings up memories of all the different cuisines we tried while living there😁😋

Current read and our cat Chere relaxing on my lap, while I read.

The second book in the rivers series finds wizard-cop-in-training Peter Grant bouncing between crime scenes to a jazz theme tune. I didn‘t enjoy this novel as much as the first but that doesn‘t mean it wasn‘t enjoyable. Lesley and Nightingale take a back seat but there some nice character development in this book for Nightingale. Too many loose ends to make it a satisfying read though, I‘m hoping for some recurring themes in the next novel.

Not quite as good as Rivers Of London (in my opinion), but still excellent. Keep 'em coming Mr. Aaronovitch.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3161944536?book_show_action=false&from_rev...

I'm blazing through these - finished this one on Thursday morning!

This is still most definitely a 'pick' - lots of great stuff here - but it dragged a bit in places. A lot of table-setting & moving pieces into place: revealing the Big Bad(s), building out more of the world, giving some more background on Nightingale & Peter's parents. Not enough of the Rivers, & particularly Beverley, but that's okay for now. Still lots to love here!

Purley is an area of South London that I used to frequent. How marvellous to unexpectedly see the name of a small, beloved place in print! ❤️🧛‍♂️❤️

I‘m binging Ben Aaronovich now, in between John Connolly and Ellie Griffiths. I‘m becoming a sure-fire sucker for a good series!

Second book in the Peter Grant series is a mixture of magic and jazz music that doesn‘t disappoint. Plus, there are Jazz Vampires! 🎵 #teamstoker #scarathlon #scaryscavengerhunt #isPartOfASeries

I am always nervous when I read the sequel to an amazing book. The first book in this series was so much fun and I absolutely loved it. Moon Over Soho was an awesome follow up, and continued building this great world. The witticisms in the writing are just fantastic. The continued character development is wonderful. I can‘t recommend this series enough! It‘s like a British Dresden Files.

At the Actors‘ Church in Covent Garden. No sign of Peter Grant but we had a nice lunch with Mr Punch. #petergrant #riversoflondon #coventgarden

1️⃣ Today at BAnQ
2️⃣ Easter break
3️⃣ « Never diss somebody‘s mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who‘s more magical than you are. »― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
4️⃣ It's Friday, i'm like Alice's rabbit... so late no tagged Litten

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Dr Who will turn up and ask them to stop.

(Mashup of images of Hadron Collider with various Dr Who actors, all courtesy of Google.)

It was chintz, but not the cat-lady chintz I was used to. Perhaps it was Mrs Bellrush‘s manner or her steely blue eyes, but I got the distinct impression that this was aggressive chintz, warrior chintz, the kind of chintz that had gone out to conquer an empire and still had the good taste to dress for dinner.

Read the first in this series some years ago, remembered I needed some laughs and tried the second volume. So much fun, and loved how jazz music is the key. There are monsters in Soho feeding off musical talent and Peter Grant, constable and 1/2 of the magical department in London‘s police force, goes all out to solve murders and avenge his father‘s loss of a brilliant career. Insouciance and action, great entertainment!

Great follow up. Leslie and Nightingale are still injured and recovering from the injuries they sustained in book one, so Peter‘s doing all the leg work on his own. Book travels full circle through what ends up being a very complicated case and involves Peters‘s dad. Loved his mom‘s reaction to Simone. She doesn‘t mess around!

Jazz vampires and a Pale Lady are Peter's mysteries while his superior recovers. And I appreciated the continuity of having actual, lasting consequences for an injury like that.

We get more background on all our main characters and a deeper look into how magic works. Watching Peter toss how magic "has always been done" out the window is absolutely delightful.

I'm really not going to like the Faceless Man, am I? #charctersofcolor ?????

A question for anyone who uses the #libbyapp. Do y'all use the tagging system?

And if so, what kind of tags do you use?

#libby #libbytags

I actually did two separate walks today. This is my lunch one. Moon Over Soho is getting a little weird; we‘ve got jazz musicians, vagina dentata, angry river goddesses, and hostage negotiations. #audiowalk