Books
So many people have recommended Mexican Gothic andβ¦it makes me wonder how much the audio performer can ruin a book. π
Iβm thinking when I start an audiobook and itβs not good, that I should try again in different format.
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I like the variety of pre-church activity this morning in our house.
Iβm listening to HolyName - Fall on Your Knees and their live heavy taizΓ© set.
Spouse is listening to Emily P. Freeman/Next Right Thing, charming inspiresting devotional.
Both reading At Home in Exile by Russell Jeung
We made a departure from #PeoplePoweredProvisions today, but made the most of it.
π Half-Price Books trip on the way home from church.
π Finished Reading: Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy #2) by Robin Hobb.
Recommended
π Finished Reading: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Recommended
π Is there something like Calibre ebooks (for ebook management) that isn’t such a hot mess?
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Me: βwant to listen to our book, like an Ettin?β
Spouse: βyesβ
(we both wore one earbud.)
ποΈπ Double-preordering this Advent book from the incredible Shannon Walker Dycus: The Holy in the Night - Herald Press. You should too!
π Finished Reading: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
Seemed like a solid idea, but just ended up feeling silly. (And not in a good Monty Python way.)
π Finished The Far Reaches short stories.
Sci-fi to open the mind.
I recommend the stories by: James S. A. Corey, Ann Leckie, John Scalzi.
Unfortunately only available on Amazon.
π New high on the readwise.io leaderboard.
π Finished Reading: Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
If you read Song of Ice and Fire and thought “this is good, but I wish George R. R. Martin had a plan”, then this is the series for you.
π Finished Reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang
Recommended
Language, philosophy, secret societies!
May suffer slightly from backporting more recent conceptual framings, but that just makes me want to go finish Dawn of Everything. So still a win.
π Almost done reading Wool (Silo #1).
Has anybody finished πΊ Silo season 1 and also the books and therefore knows if I should keep reading the rest of the books before watching the show?
π Trying an experiment. We’re reading An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson.
Discussion group is in Frond.
Finished reading: Death to Deconstruction by Joshua S. Porter π
Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells π
π I had been looking to try Martha Wells. This humble bundle is a great opportunity to get started.
π The Heron Haven library is coming along nicely.