I read A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie LittleBadger and it was really wonderful.
I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte and it was the best Bronte book I’ve ever read. Suck it, Jane Eyre.
I read All the Feels by Olivia Dade. I laughed and mostly enjoyed it.
I read a fairly terrible romance book about a porn star and a socialite. Blah, whatever.
I can’t remember what else, but I’ll come back when I have the tiles.
Oooh she has another book?? Yaaay
That is exactly what let me to getting a copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
But Gil is such an idiot!
I am amused that when I searched my Pocket archive for “Brontë” the other result was something you sent me.
Gilbert is an idiotic, impulsive, emotional brodude. I don’t like him at all, but he makes a good narrator. I don’t understand why anyone in the story likes him.
I guess being a nosy jerk who won’t take no for an answer does make a good narrator…
Make your bed, by Adm. William H McRaven. Blah, I’ve heard it all before. Generalized lifehacks have taken me as far as they can, and now it’s time for more individualized problem solving.
The Year I Stopped Trying, Katie Heaney. The book is a YA novel about a striver who suddenly stops striving, due to a basically non-traumatic sequence of events. I enjoyed it.
Please Miss, by Grace Lavery. All I can say about this book is “holy shit, wtf. Just…wtf?”
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristen Kobes Du Mez. In depth background of how “evangelicals” became a catch-all description for a kind of militant Christianity, and how it reached out to bring minority rule. Really, really good.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson. Another YA that was quite good. A local hometown girl solves a murder. The romance was annoying, and could have been skipped, but the crime held my attention.
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune. Lived up to the hype. I read it twice in a row.
ALL THE MURDERBOT, ALL OVER AGAIN.
_ The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More_
My guess is that anyone who picked up this book based on the title already knows everything inside.
Book 43 of my target 52 for the year.
Thank you for the reminder, the first time I read it there was only the first book and I’ve been meaning to come back to it.
I was able to read The Golden Enclaves and I believe it earned the climax scenes. Also, while I’m not usually one for long descriptions of settings, the different areas that El visited were evocatively described.
I have not decided whether to purchase it for the bookshelves. I suspect if I do, I won’t get books 1 & 2 unless the shadowy one wants them. If I reread I’ll likely only want this one.
Also, I finally read Network Effect, and I look forward to where Murderbot goes next and who they interact with.
Someone, not sure who, mentioned rereading Playing Big in their journal. I decided to pick it up from the library, and I found aspects of it very helpful articulations of things I’ve been struggling with, particularly around inner perfectionism (motivated by external praise, motivated by fear that others might think I wasn’t competent or worth noticing/listening to). Also moving away from the idea of One True Calling that you must have right now or else you’re just lying to yourself (though she is softer on the topic than I am, she notes that we can have multiple over time and they might not be huge to the outside world.
As with all books of this type, it’s about the right book for you in the moment, no book is one size fits all. But this was a good fit for me this week.
How did you know about the post I’ve been trying to draft in my head since a talk with my boss on Friday about something. I told myself I wasn’t going to post it till Monday because I was trying not to think about work over the weekend and yet this thing kept taking up space in my brain. (Imposter Syndrome says what? No, Imposter Syndrome says nothing because what if I say the wrong thing?? so let’s freeze like a deer in the headlights instead.)
This book is now on my phone, thank you.
I just finished A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall after seeing it recommended on Smart Bitches Trashy Books. It was a lovely regency romance that has a trans character as one of the leads. It was a lovely read. Not exactly a comfort read - there is some dead naming, substance abuse issues, PTSD from war - but if you’re looking for a regency I’d recommend it.
Now I’m just a little ways into Looking For Group, also by Alexis Hall, and I’m already laughing out loud at how’s much it sounds just like my gamer friends when I was in a MMORPG guild.
I just read and liked Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen.
Sarah MacLean has a new historical romance series out called Hells Belles. I just finished and liked the first book called Bomb Shell.
ooooooh!
Thanks for this! I’m now on the wait-list too
Same but I think it’s going to be way after the holidays 
