Casee: I’ve read so many books in the last week that I don’t know what to do with myself. I just finished Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley last night. I’m going to start the next book in the series today. I’m also reading Forever Only Once by Carrie Ann Ryan. This is my first book by this author and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I’m about halfway through and it’s kind of boring tbh.
I’m listening to Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews. I just adore the narrator. Adore her. This is the ninth book in the series and I’m so sad that I’m almost done with it.
Holly: I didn’t get much reading in this week. I wanted to read, but I didn’t have a lot of time. I read Dream Maker by Kristen Ashley, then reread Complicated and Fairytale Come Alive. I’m about halfway through Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope. It’s been sitting in my TBR pile for ages. It’s a little slow going, but I like the world. I plan to read Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts by Nancy Campbell Allen next.
What are you reading this week? Any new favorites or books that drove you crazy? Share!
I just finished Genevieve Turner’s very good series, A COWBOY OF HER OWN: set in and around a ranching community in Southern California, the six interconnected books feature multi-cultural/multi-ethnic MCs and various tropes (antagonists-to-lovers, fake relationship, boss & employee, second-chance, unplanned pregnancy).
Over the past week ~
— My summer reading program challenged me to read a book in translation; I chose to read Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu (translated from the French by Montana Kane). I was only familiar with about a quarter of the featured women, so I learned a lot by reading this graphic novel. (What is the correct terminology for a graphic work of nonfiction? The spine label says Graphic Novel, but this was no work of fiction!)
— Another challenge was to read a book of poetry, thus I read with pleasure The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems by Billy Collins.
— Another challenge was to read a biography or autobiography. I read a children’s book, Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess.
— reread with pleasure Linesman by S. K. Dunstall.
— read a historical male/male romance novella, Refugees by Kim Fielding which I enjoyed. It had a slight otherworldly aspect to it.
— I continued with the Vorkosigan series and read Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold. (Well, this book is actually set two hundred years prior to the others and thus features no Vorkosigans at all; I enjoyed it anyway.) Also enjoyed Diplomatic Immunity and Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance.