Just finished watching the BBC's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell adaptation when this little gem arrived. Perfect timing, and could almost be set in the same world.

Best chapter title ever.

Reading Carriger and sipping iced tea in the summer is perfection. (Although even thinking about corsets in this weather makes me want to pass out.)

This book is only 100 pages, but it is taking me forever to read it because I'm so worried about the protagonist.

This one was kind of a disappointment. While the politics kept me turning pages, I struggled with what seemed like Cool Girl Feminism (and Cool Girl Feminism shouldn't be possible in an oppressive matriarchal society).

My holiday reading has been described as a cross between Star Wars and Ancillary Justice. I hope that's true because now I've got my hopes way up.

Is A Taste of Honey the prequel that will explain everything?
Here's hoping.

This may be the highest-stakes fantasy series I've read in a while. Higher even than in Jemisin's Inheritance books.

Catching up on this series before the third one comes out this fall. It will be incentive for me to exercise.

Hooray, hooray! Finally! Now I just have to remember my stonelore from last summer.

I'm the one member of geekdom who doesn't like Buffy and is meh about Torchwood so I didn't expect to like this. I was wrong. It was funny, imaginative, suspenseful, and filled with nightmare fuel.

This is turning out to be a fun summer read.

Impress me, booksale find.

A very funny mystery that includes Lovecraft, fandom, con culture, writers, social media, ASMR, Men's Rights Activists, people who remember photocopied 'zines, and a dead guy talking to himself. Loved it.

A murder mystery set at a Lovecraft convention, complete with small-time writers, fandom, and ASMR references. Sign me up.

Historians iiiiiin spaaaaace. Er, time. Anyhow, let's get reading.

Fun, but mostly formulaic, and a clear set-up for a trilogy. It might be a good beach read for people who enjoy stories about magic.

Got this e-galley a couple of weeks ago and I'm ready to give it a try.

Loved this. It's a sci-fi for poli-sci geeks, and while it started slowly, it built up into a science fiction thriller about a massive global election. Definitely recommend it.

My brand spanking new e-galley of Infomocracy, complete with paranoid Scotch tape over my iPad's camera.

Jesus, that was good. I'd better read something boring next so I can start sleeping again.

At long last, I'm reading it.

This book kept me turning pages, I'll give it that. But by the end I really didn't like the protagonist at all and if all of earth is working together to save one man, I'd prefer he'd be someone I like. And he's not supposed to be unlikeable. He's supposed to be a "great guy." Eh.

"I wonder what he's thinking right now."?

My husband got me flowers and The Martian as Get Well gifts. (Awww.) Not sure how I feel about Weir's prose, but when it comes to pace and science the book is downright Crichtonesque.

This book is an account of an abduction, but so far, it's really about a future with an extremely-evolved Internet; how easily we come to rely on technology (*cough, cough* Google) and distrust our own memories.

It has all the elements of every fairy tale: a captive queen, a sorcerer in a tower, a witch, a dashing prince, a magical wood, a beautiful peasant... just not in the order, or roles, you'd expect them to be in.

I've been staying up too late inventing chores to do so I can keep listening to this.