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boooooks, yay
a little bit of a catch-up from the last time I posted about books, though not as many as it might normally be given how hard it's been to hold my attention lately...
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God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen, Rhys Bowen -- Number 15 in the Her Royal Spyness series, a Christmas one with yet another one of Darcy's aunts hosting a house party for the extended family. The pre-abdication David and Wallace are running around and Georgie's brother, et al, are also included in the festivities. I think I like her previous Christmas shenanigans better but it's nice to have another one on the docket for when I'm running around next year.
The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin -- a perfectly pleasant bit of historical fiction, not especially well-written, but decent enough. London during the Blitz, so it's a bit harrowing in parts but there is the requisite happy-ish ending and while it didn't set my imagination on fire, it was good enough that I could read it in fits and bits and it did feel good to actually finish a book.
No Judgements, Meg Cabot -- okay, I did finish this one but I have no idea why -- the heroine walks the TSTL line right from the start and the hero is just kind of ... there, conveniently attractive and competent with power tools but then there was a pistol and threats and a wildly out-of-the-blue visit from too many skeletons in the heroine's closet and I don't even know what was going on with the end. BUT. Let me say this to those of you who do not live in hurricane-prone areas: should you be visiting a tiny island in the Florida Keys when the Weather Channel starts forecasting "the storm of the century," DO NOT DECIDE TO RIDE IT OUT. Category 5 hurricanes are no fucking joke even if you do have a generator and a couple of thousand gallons of fuel fall at your feet like our heroine does. It seriously, seriously will suck even if you do manage to be in the one part of the island that's high enough to not flood with a 9-foot surge. Go to the damn hurricane party and then LEAVE. /psa
Picnic in Provence, Elizabeth Bard -- the sequel to her first memoir, Lunch in Paris, wherein she and her French husband move to a small, historic village in, yup, Provence. I'm happy she's happy in France, but there's a lot of US vs France competition happening and not just in food. Also, it saddens me to have to toss out a content warning for fatphobia but yup, lots of discussion of how French women stay slim, erg.
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The Impossible Imposter, Deanna Raybourn -- #6 or 7 of her Veronica Speedwell series. I'm listening to the audiobook even though I really don't like how the narrator does her male voices, especially Stoker's. But there's a 3-month wait for a copy that can be read from the library and they published in hardback first and I have the rest of the series in the lovely trade paperbacks and I'm not messing up my shelves for that. (The trials of my reading life, let me show you them, lol.) I'm halfway through and nobody has actually even died yet. A very low body count for V and S! Stoker just had to take his shirt off, though, so all is not completely askew, koff.
Beginner's Luck, Kate Clayborn -- I'd just finally gotten to where I was okay with the leads and their motivations, which took a while, like half the book when the library copy went poof and so now I'm waiting for my hold to come back up again.
Master and Apprentice, Claudia Gray -- Obi Wan and Qi Gon, pre-Phantom Menace. To go along with my post-Sith Obi Wan on my TV, :D
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I have 13 books on hold from the library so your guess is as good as mine as to which one comes in first, ;D
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God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen, Rhys Bowen -- Number 15 in the Her Royal Spyness series, a Christmas one with yet another one of Darcy's aunts hosting a house party for the extended family. The pre-abdication David and Wallace are running around and Georgie's brother, et al, are also included in the festivities. I think I like her previous Christmas shenanigans better but it's nice to have another one on the docket for when I'm running around next year.
The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin -- a perfectly pleasant bit of historical fiction, not especially well-written, but decent enough. London during the Blitz, so it's a bit harrowing in parts but there is the requisite happy-ish ending and while it didn't set my imagination on fire, it was good enough that I could read it in fits and bits and it did feel good to actually finish a book.
No Judgements, Meg Cabot -- okay, I did finish this one but I have no idea why -- the heroine walks the TSTL line right from the start and the hero is just kind of ... there, conveniently attractive and competent with power tools but then there was a pistol and threats and a wildly out-of-the-blue visit from too many skeletons in the heroine's closet and I don't even know what was going on with the end. BUT. Let me say this to those of you who do not live in hurricane-prone areas: should you be visiting a tiny island in the Florida Keys when the Weather Channel starts forecasting "the storm of the century," DO NOT DECIDE TO RIDE IT OUT. Category 5 hurricanes are no fucking joke even if you do have a generator and a couple of thousand gallons of fuel fall at your feet like our heroine does. It seriously, seriously will suck even if you do manage to be in the one part of the island that's high enough to not flood with a 9-foot surge. Go to the damn hurricane party and then LEAVE. /psa
Picnic in Provence, Elizabeth Bard -- the sequel to her first memoir, Lunch in Paris, wherein she and her French husband move to a small, historic village in, yup, Provence. I'm happy she's happy in France, but there's a lot of US vs France competition happening and not just in food. Also, it saddens me to have to toss out a content warning for fatphobia but yup, lots of discussion of how French women stay slim, erg.
reading
The Impossible Imposter, Deanna Raybourn -- #6 or 7 of her Veronica Speedwell series. I'm listening to the audiobook even though I really don't like how the narrator does her male voices, especially Stoker's. But there's a 3-month wait for a copy that can be read from the library and they published in hardback first and I have the rest of the series in the lovely trade paperbacks and I'm not messing up my shelves for that. (The trials of my reading life, let me show you them, lol.) I'm halfway through and nobody has actually even died yet. A very low body count for V and S! Stoker just had to take his shirt off, though, so all is not completely askew, koff.
Beginner's Luck, Kate Clayborn -- I'd just finally gotten to where I was okay with the leads and their motivations, which took a while, like half the book when the library copy went poof and so now I'm waiting for my hold to come back up again.
Master and Apprentice, Claudia Gray -- Obi Wan and Qi Gon, pre-Phantom Menace. To go along with my post-Sith Obi Wan on my TV, :D
next
I have 13 books on hold from the library so your guess is as good as mine as to which one comes in first, ;D
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The Veronica Speedwell series is very enjoyable - I tried reading other Victorian-era books that seemed similar and haven't found one I like nearly as much.
I recently read Master and Apprentice and thought it was enjoyable. And what timing! Tomorrow is KENOBI day!! <33333
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I was at the library on Tuesday, where I worked and had no plans to take any books home with me, but then I saw two LGBTQ+ books I was intersted in and took them with me. One of them is a book I have been planning on reading, so there is at least that :D But first I have to finish the library books I am already reading.
Ah, fatphobia, sucks! And I don't believe we would all slim down if we ate like people in France, size is much more complicated than just what we eat. And people from different cultures and places on the planet have always had diets which fits the place they live, of course things are more multicultual now, but food is still very much tied to culture.
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I remember enjoying Master and Apprentice a lot, and I picked up Brotherhood from my library for the same reason! So excited about the Obi-Wan show!
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I liked the first bit of Kenobi!
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Good to know that they tend to do long series! I have heard of Rhys Bowen, someone was looking for that author at the library the other day. It sounded interesting.
Is C. S. Harris a pseudonym for Charlaine Harris? I see those on the shelf next to each other all the time, but it looks like they're completing different styles. Regency England might be my era, but like I said, I need to read some of it to be sure! Thanks very much for the recs.