Weird day. No idea why. Couldn't concentrate on one book.

Better luck tomorrow. 😉

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1) when travelling, organising my week, food and grocery shopping, yes. Only tentative plans for most other things.

2) Nanao is the "unluckiest assassin in the world" - the plan was to get on the train and snatch one particular suitcase

"... I have a briefing with the president in exactly half an hour, and because we all know he doesn't bother to read the daily intelligence briefing, it will fall to me to explain what the hell is going on. So explain it to me. Use small words on me so I can use smaller words on him...."

Mr Scalzi, you scare me. This book is supposed to be published next spring. Means you wrote it last year(?).

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

eARC - Hotel Lucky Seven
🎧 - Gogmagog

I see this book reviewed here and noticed that either I didn't review it here or my review never "aired" back in September.

Anyway, I absolutely loved it. The translation and narration by Mary Robinette-Kowal are excellent.

It's creepy and atmospheric and I still wonder what the end was about.

Opened my #NetGalley account to check the pub day of a different #ARC and finding this new addition to #MountARC ???

"One day, suddenly and without explanation, the moon turns into a ball of cheese.
For some, it‘s an opportunity. For others, it‘s time to question their life choices. How can the world stay the same in the face of such absurdity and uncertainty?"

Pub Day for UK is 27 March 2025

Another book I have to thank/blame @RaeLovesToRead for introducing me to.
Rae, you mentioned it one evening over mead and bramble whisky. You mentioned another book, but that one I can't remember. We were talking about heist books similar to Locke Lamora.

Found the #audiobook and have just picked up this #audioknitting project out of my UFO basket. It'll either be leg warmers or socks when done. #LitsyCrafters

#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Bristol Keats is the ordinary middle child. Her parents used to travel all over the country with her and her two sisters. The family only settled down recently and then tragedy struck, first her mother died, then her father. To keep her family afloat, Bristol strikes a bargain with one of the fae kings. She follows the fae into their realm and becomes one of only a few new recruits training for one specific purpose,

#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Pub Day was 05 November

Tao travels the country in a mule-drawn wagon and tells fortunes. She is a teller of small fortunes, larger fortunes come with consequences and so she sticks to the small ones. On her journey she makes friends with a former mercenary and a reformed thief, who are looking for a lost child, as well as an apprentice baker and her slightly magical cat.

The story is like being on a low stakes ⬇️

#BookMail from yesterday

This story had been on my mind for quite a while, but I never knew what the title was until @Bookwomble posted about it.

The last three days were busy. I found damp behind my daughter's bookshelf on Monday. Took out all the books and knick knacks and sorted through what had to go because of mould and what was just damp.
Yesterday I moved the shelf and removed the wallpaper.

Today I filled the shelves.

Bottom right is the wall without wallpaper, just the insulation I put up ten years ago. Daughter is happy with her discoball wall.

All powered by audiobooks. 😜

It's that time of the year.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1) stripes - love stripes

2) no, finished the last library book (audiobook) while preparing lunch today; tagged

@RaeLovesToRead mentioned the second book in the series some time ago and I thought I should check out the first.

I liked it, but it took me a long time to get into it and finish it. I had the impression that it took until past the halfway mark to introduce the many different characters, their backgrounds, and building this slightly alternate Victorian world.

I'll pick up the second book, somewhen 😉

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Hello #OokBOokClub-ers,

Here's the #BuddyRead reading plan for next year. We'll be reading the Moist von Lipwig subseries followed by the Watch novels and short stories.

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

Pictures from the tagged book.

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #EpicBuddyRead

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

I tend to re-read cosy, funny books during the darker months.

Top left: The Chronicles of St Mary's (🎄) short story collections and, of course, I've pre-ordered the next 🎄short story already
Bottom left: Spin-off from the Shopping for a Billionaire series, can be read without having read the whole series. Laugh out loud #RomCom ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#ARC #MountARC #NetGalley

Requested solely based on the cover and was approved 🤩🤩

UK pub day is in March 2025

#OokBOokClub

Just a friendly reminder that we'll be reading #MonstrousRegiment next! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on December 8th! Woohoo!

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #TheTruth!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

Happy reading!

#OokBOokClub

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as spoiler. Find the Moving Pictures post & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

#audiobook contemporary #Romance with a generous dash of magical realism: Ghost Coos, Brownies, Kelpies,...

West takes a break from his teaching job in sunny California and visits a small Scottish town at Christmas time. He soon falls for bookish and competitive Maisie, who might be up for a fling, because nothing longterm can happen between them.

Some 🌶️, lots of magic, the usual small town🎄tropes (snow, gingerbread houses, 🎄sweaters,...)

Set mainly in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, this alternate history murder mystery fantasy novel packs a lot into it's nearly 400 pages.

Working for the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena Samantha Harker (yes, the daughter of Dracula's killer) and Dr Helena Moriarty (yes, her father is the Moriarty) are teamed up to solve why werewolf-like beasts attack men in Paris, France. ⬇️

#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Not sure how to review this book. I was annoyed by the historical inaccuracies and anachronistic dialogue. I didn't care for the over-the-top brutality of some plot elements and absolutely didn't understand why some of the culprits weren't held accountable for their actions. Why add it to the plot in the first place? Shock-value? What really brought this novel down to just one star was the show-down and its aftermath at the end of the book. ⬇️

Paris, 1866, two sisters, mediums, work together to do one more job to raise enough money for their father's medical bills. Sylvie, meanwhile married to a baron, cannot ask her husband for financial aid, since he doesn't know about her family. Charlotte begrudges her sister getting out of the family business and out of the circumstances they lived in, and is happy to rope her sister into this new con.
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#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Kembral is a new mother who takes a tiny break from motherhood to join and hopefully enjoy an end of the year party. She used to work as retrieval agent, but has been on maternity leave. When the party turns into a "Groundhog Day" scenario Kembral seems to be the only one who recognises that the party/the mansion is slowly sinking into the echoes (parallel worlds that are similar, but not the same as the "prime" world).

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#NetGalley #ARC

Erin leaves notes in the margins of her books and James finds one of her books in a LFL and decides to respond. They haven't met, but they grow closer with every book they share.

Don't let the cute cover fool you. This isn't a cutesy romance. The book focuses on grief, survivor's guilt, mending fences with family and friends, finding yourself,...

More #BookMail - gigantic book. My son unpacked it, he said he wanted to keep me in suspense a bit longer.

Thank you @CaroPi! 😘😘😘 Very fitting on so many levels! You've chosen wonderful books for me. 😘😘

#HHS #HauntedHollowSwap @wanderinglynn

#BookMail - Pub Day is 14th November

#UnpopularOpinion

This was too long (nearly 500pp). So Grinch adjacent, it was cringe. Why does the narrator have to break the fourth wall? Why the overly grumpy big sister? Why all the weird Christmas competitions? Why this stupid 3rd act break-up? Why not more focus on the romance between the main couple, outside of the 🌶️ scenes? Feels like they went from insta-hate to insta-lust to Insta-love. And that epilogue?

Very un-MeghanQuinn-like. 😐

I might not be the target audience for this story. I admire the structure of the book, the play with narrating in different tenses and narrator POVs, but I didn't exactly enjoy the reading experience.

The frame narrative is from Rowena's POV, she's a curator who has discovered a nearly three hundred year old manuscript from 2024. The manuscript tells Fairly's story, a girl who left her home to walk the Horned Road to find meaning in her life. ⬇️

#WorstRead2024 @CSeydel

The Silence Factory wins. I know this might be an #UnpopularOpinion, but I just found the book boring. I guess Gothic is not my jam.

October wrap-up.

I just got an Amazon delivery that said "liquids" on the package, which made me wonder whether Amazon can read minds (I wanted to order some alcohol for Christmas presents, but haven't yet).

Dear @CaroPi Thank you for the #HHS #HauntedHollowSwap package! The book sounds intriguing and I'm honestly amazed that it has rounded corners. The chocolate is perfect, especially since I've just made tea and was looking for biscuits. ?

Second book in #UrbanFantasy series. It ends with a cliffhanger.

I'm not quite sure what happened in this book. I mean, things happened, but it all feels like it was world-building and preparation for the big finish.

#MiddleBookSyndrome

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

It's a Will Watt narration week, it seems.

There's a fairy market in London where you can barter anything, even your destiny. In this alternate Victorian Britain, one of the royals sells their destiny to an indentured servant who would like to gain his freedom. Meanwhile, the children in a workhouse want better conditions and hope their connection to the fairy world will help them.

The story suffered from too many POV,... ⬇️

Re-reading the #audiobook version again. 😬

I said I wouldn't dress up for Halloween/Samhain. I'm not, I wear the shirt and skirt all year round, but I rarely wear them together.

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🦇

And yes, @BarbaraBB, I'm wearing the grey dress underneath the shirt and skirt. 😉

Happy Halloween!

#TLT#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe

I have read 9 from the list, and probably hundreds of other mystery/thrillers that didn't make the list. And there are so many on the list I'm not the least bit interested in. 🤷🏻‍♀️

One of my favourites (and among the first I've read) is tagged.

Not sure what I was expecting, but it was far better than I thought.

An unplanned pregnancy forces the 19 y/o Margo to earn money in an unusual way.

Really liked the way the author plays with the POV throughout the novel.

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Tricky, no Halloween like in the US over here. 😉

Tag, you're it. 🎃

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

? Not really. I might put my "Resting Witch Face" shirt on though.

? Classic horror: The Woman in Black - I didn't really enjoy-enjoy it, but it wasn't a pan.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

It's 31st October, Nick's birthday. The plan was to spend quality time with him in bed. But the events at the end of the 3rd novel, plus Riley's ex suddenly appearing derail all plans.

Now Santiago Investigations is protecting the ego-maniac ex from whoever wants to kill him, and boy it's a long list of suspects, understandably. For the first time in his career Nick would love to do a piss-poor job.

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

#BookMail

Spreading some love by getting shelf-trophies. 😁

I think I need to get new shelves next. 😬

#HauntedHollowSwap @wanderinglynn #HHS #HHS24

Evening stroll to the petrol station to drop off my parcel. It's on its way.

I guess, with this update now, I have a bingo?

Finished one book, started four new ones. Only one of the four I started was on my tentative #TBR. ??

Also, what exactly counts as a spooky treat? My European mind can't think of something other than "must mean disgusting".

#DeweysReadathon
#readathon

@DeweysReadathon

#DewesReadathon tentative #TBR - a few #ARCs and, of course, the #Discworld book.

#BookMail from @jenniferw88 - in lieu of the Blind Date Book, which I'd already read, I got a surprise book from Jenny.

Thank you!

#BookMail

Preordered months ago, it came as a surprise - especially since the Pub Day is 7th November. 😁

Also, thanks DHL, ramming it into my postbox didn't hurt the book at all. 🙄🤬😡

Anyone else doing #DewesReadathon this weekend?

Clocks go back to Winter Time in Europe tonight, which makes the #readathon 25 hours long. 😁

Picture is from Dewey's Readathon Instagram.

#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Rivals Leo and Grimm have to work together, which wouldn't be ideal on a normal day, but due to an accidental curse Leo now has to obey his rival's every command. And as if using forbidden magic wasn't enough to undo the curse they have to go into the Unquiet Wood, a forbidden forest full of monsters and lethal flora. There they might find a legendary sorcerer who can undo the curse with a counterspell, or they ⬇️