pickThis is a bit like the third Star Wars movie (#6 in the new canon): slightly disappointing for the diehard fan in me; it feeling a tad formulaic. There is however enough to motivate me to continue to have the stories wash over me- #4 is in the cue.
Ooh two choices this time in #BookBracket2025, both were tough!! In the end, I went with Time's Agent as the winner twice. It's a super unique queer science fiction novel about "pocket worlds," aka small alternative universes, wherein time is either slowed down or sped up. It's a beautiful and smart meditation on motherhood, climate collapse, grief, capitalism, colonization, and the nature of time itself. And a great ending!
In some ways this is just as silly as When the Moon Hits Your Eye, but it has so much more sweetness and heart. A reread for me, and just as good as the first time.
*#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
panI'm so glad I took my own advice and got the Audiobook for the second installment of D.O.D.O
This felt like a totally different book from the first. All the characters I came to care for were either not there at all, or pushed aside so much that they became inconsequential.
I didn't like the new character, and it felt like we only ever travelled to one place - one I didn't care for.
And the ending was such a disappointment I can't even...
This is the #LSFBC book that was picked for this month. Before being accepted for the ARC I‘m reading now, I was going to start reading this but maybe I‘ll have time to read it next if I finish reading the ARC I‘m currently reading before the end of the month. If I do end up starting this book before the end of the month, I‘ll finish it next month but if I don‘t have time to read it this month then I can read it next month. I do want to read it.
I can't believe we're almost to the July #BookSpin draw! New to the list this month are the tagged and The Dragonbone Chair. I have to keep my fingers crossed that the draws are closer to the single digit end of the list because the way mine's set up the chonky bois are towards the bottom.
pickCassie is gifted a book that turns out to do magic then soon learns there are others, leading her to learn about a small world of people who use these books, though not always for good things. There are a couple of big plot holes, but I was absorbed enough by the story to shrug them off. Not sure why I ignored this one when it came out last year, but I‘m glad I read it.
