pickA sweet, gentle story about a fox walking through the forest at night, on her way home. It‘s a perfect bedtime story due to its slow pace and gentle scenes. The illustrations add to the quiet feel of the book.
I highly recommend reading some children‘s books during this difficult time. It really helps with emotional regulation. Many children‘s books are designed for that very purpose.
#childrensliterature
pickStunning illustrations and a very cute picture book. The book reads forwards and backwards about a girl who goes to her house, reads a book and imagines flying a bird in the night.
pickThis won‘t be for everyone. It‘s very many slices of life over the course of a lunar cycle, each with hilarious, somber, bittersweet, or Darwinian (satisfyingly looking in Jody‘s direction) tones. I wanted to follow some characters more, but then again, the look I got was also more than enough.
Also, we need more absurd ideas like the moon turning into cheese.
(I‘m also slightly disappointed that the title wasn‘t literal.)
Another quarterly bingo done for theuncorkedlibrarian reading challenge.
Today I finished the last read-aloud session of the academic year with the tagged book. I volunteered to bring my school's book bin back to the main office next week and to pick up and return as many as three other bins from other schools. I'm in good shape, but lugging this bin a city block to my car left me a sweaty mess with an ache in my back, so I ordered a heavy duty wagon to help with the other bins. Volunteering can get expensive!
My new audiobook, from 1993. Yes, I am partially listening to this because the author and I share last names.
pick48/100 You know you're reading a gifted writer, when he/she can take the daftiest idea possible, and turn it into a fun and enjoyable story. While not as funny as say Starter Villain, it made me smile and chuckle often. I enjoyed the various POVs, how the average person was effected by the change in the moon, along with the rich and the powerful people in government. I don't think sweet is the word I'd use but it's more lightly amusing ⬇️
pickLow end of the pick scale. I‘d have liked it better if I‘d known from the beginning that it‘s really a series of interconnected perspectives of characters that will never meet, but I kept wondering when all the threads would connect. Still, it‘s a ridiculous but funny premise that Scalzi uses to also be thoughtful. Wil Wheaton, as always, is a great narrator. Continued with The Dead Zone on my #audiowalk
April wasn't a great month of reading. What I read was just okay, so while I pick Scalzi's “When the Moon Hits Your Eye“ as my top pick for April, it only comes with a so-so approval rating. I am moving it forward over The Black Cat Tail Assassins, but that's only because I felt just so-so about that book too. #bookbracket #2025bookbracket #readingbracket #readingbracket2025
bailedStopped at 10%. Usually I love Scalzi, but i could not get into this story. Normally I fly through his pages, but I was creeping along with this one. Like reading just a few pages each sitting.
I wasn‘t looking forward to continuing, and even worse, I started dreading picking up my Kobo. That‘s when I knew to #DNF. Maybe I‘ll try again someday.
