Everyone was wired last night, so finishing my book was a lost cause. I spent today making some epic ramen. I‘m now hoping to sit down and finish this one. I‘m still counting it as my last of 2021.
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Trouble the Saints: A Novel | 
Everyone was wired last night, so finishing my book was a lost cause. I spent today making some epic ramen. I‘m now hoping to sit down and finish this one. I‘m still counting it as my last of 2021.
Thought about baking cookies. Decided to do this instead.
ABAB - always bring a book.
On my husband‘s 50th birthday trip, I‘m picking this one back up after setting it aside months ago.
Gatsby says “Get that book out of your lap. I‘m coming in.” Since I finished a book this weekend, why not add a new one to the in progress pile?! Wouldn‘t want that number to drop at all or anything. 😂
I've been so eager to read this since the cover got revealed. It doesn't have the best rating on GoodReads but I'm hoping it's just people under appreciating it
pickI‘m a little conflicted with how I feel. I think the first third is excellent, and the rest sort of becomes a little tedious, but the end really ruined me so maybe I liked it more than I thought I did.
I‘m trying to transition more of my holds over to ebooks or audiobooks as I anticipate the second wave shut down. I‘m very excited to start this!
Oh gosh. Alaya Dawn Johnson is so great at giving you a story like WWII era mobsters with a hint of magic and then using that to dive into stuff that makes the book sound boring. So focus on magical mobsters and ignore this look at white supremacy and the corruption of power and the burdens of fighting against the systems of power. Mobsters are fun!
CN: violence, murder, historically accurate racism including racial slurs
#Two4Tuesdaygiveaway on Wednesdsy @TheSpineView
Thanks for the tag @katy4peas
📚Keep the books I really liked to either re-read (which I haven't done yet) or share with friends. Keep the books in a series I'm still working on in case I need to reference a previous book (isn't happened yet).
Donate/giveaway any bails/pans/so-so/just not great books or completed series
📚 Tagged
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pickNoir-inspired, New York based fantasy and alternate history, with badass femme fatales and bad guys with complex motivations and possibly warm hearts. Exploring race relations and humanity's violent legacies. Come for the fun noir fantasy, stay for the thoughtful questions that remain long after the last page.
🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 There are a bunch of great books out today, including many that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, such as 10 Things I Hate about Pinky by Sandhya Menon, The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue, The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin, and Malorie by Josh Malerman. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚
Look. At. This. Cover. 😍 The book has blurbs from N. K. Jemisin and Kelly Link. It‘s on sale 7/21 and there‘s a very real chance I will need to have it!
so-soI have mixed feelings about this one.
Positive: it's a unique premise and setting that I liked - early WWII-era NYC where some POC have been blessed with saint's hands that give them each different abilities.
Negative: the magic of the saint's hands is so purposefully obscured in the beginning as to be frustrating and confusing rather than intriguing, and the narrative often shifts back and forth from present to past without warning.
