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shhh, let’s not scare my brain, but yay, it’s another post
Since it’s Wednesday, let’s talk about books…
I read 84 books in 2023, which is the most I’ve read in a lot ofyears decades. I’m pretty pleased with that. I’m also pleased that I followed up on an idea from one of the many book podcasts in my audio rotation to create a project for my reading. Somewhere in the middle of driving back from Orlando in January of 2023, I decided I could read all of Jane Austen. I just finished Persuasion to wrap up all of her completed and published novels, and am starting in on her unfinished writings and her juvenilia. There’s a satisfying checkmark next to all of this in my head so I think once I finish up all the loose ends there I’m going to set my next project to reading Ursula K LeGuin, at least the Earthsea cycle and the Hainish universe.
I dislike having to pick "the best" books I’ve read, but the ones that have stuck in my head are Spare, Prince Harry’s memoir, which I listened to as I was packing out the kitchen. I’m firmly in the audiobook camp for this one; I don’t think I could’ve kept reading it on the page. And then there’s the Spoiler Alert trilogy, because you have to admire someone who took her frustration with the debacle that was the final season of Game of Thrones and turned it into her own blockbuster-fantasy-series-falling-apart-at-the-end-of-its-run setting, and then writing happy endings for the actors. Quite possibly, we know this person.
…and now for the traditional Wednesday book meme
done
As mentioned above, I just finished Persuasion by Jane Austin, and really, is there anything better than "… I am half agony, half hope"? I do love the trio of sea captains, how supportive and caring they are for each other but I was listening to this in the car as we were driving over the holidays and #2Son was up in the front seat with me and just kept saying 'oh my God these people are awful' every time Anne's family showed up, which, fair.
reading now
I currently am in the middle of a A Holly Jolly Ever After which is the second of (I’m assuming) a trio of romances that lean to the very spicy side with the members of a former boyband finding love while filming softcore porn Hallmark Christmas movies… I feel like I for real have to know these writers from back in the popslash days, lol. This one has a lot to say about purity culture and the terrible standards to which we as a society hold women so it’s not *just* sex although there is a lot of it.
up next
I have the most recent Sebastian St Cyr mystery and also the one before it because it’s been so long since I’ve read them I honestly don’t remember where we are in that series. I’ve had them out long enough that I just renewed them, so I should really get on them before the library starts yelling at me to bring them back.
I read 84 books in 2023, which is the most I’ve read in a lot of
I dislike having to pick "the best" books I’ve read, but the ones that have stuck in my head are Spare, Prince Harry’s memoir, which I listened to as I was packing out the kitchen. I’m firmly in the audiobook camp for this one; I don’t think I could’ve kept reading it on the page. And then there’s the Spoiler Alert trilogy, because you have to admire someone who took her frustration with the debacle that was the final season of Game of Thrones and turned it into her own blockbuster-fantasy-series-falling-apart-at-the-end-of-its-run setting, and then writing happy endings for the actors. Quite possibly, we know this person.
…and now for the traditional Wednesday book meme
done
As mentioned above, I just finished Persuasion by Jane Austin, and really, is there anything better than "… I am half agony, half hope"? I do love the trio of sea captains, how supportive and caring they are for each other but I was listening to this in the car as we were driving over the holidays and #2Son was up in the front seat with me and just kept saying 'oh my God these people are awful' every time Anne's family showed up, which, fair.
reading now
I currently am in the middle of a A Holly Jolly Ever After which is the second of (I’m assuming) a trio of romances that lean to the very spicy side with the members of a former boyband finding love while filming softcore porn Hallmark Christmas movies… I feel like I for real have to know these writers from back in the popslash days, lol. This one has a lot to say about purity culture and the terrible standards to which we as a society hold women so it’s not *just* sex although there is a lot of it.
up next
I have the most recent Sebastian St Cyr mystery and also the one before it because it’s been so long since I’ve read them I honestly don’t remember where we are in that series. I’ve had them out long enough that I just renewed them, so I should really get on them before the library starts yelling at me to bring them back.