Middlegame | 
#BookMail Pt6 There was a box of books delivered this afternoon, just scraping into this weeks mail. The hubby has started to call my library “The Book Fort”🏛First up is the new one from Seanan McGuire about Rodger, an expert with language & his twin sister Dodger, a numbers genius. But the twins are not quite human & their creator is trying to set them up as gods. Just because you can make gods doesn‘t mean it‘s a great idea. Sounds promising!
Week 2 of #bfcr2 complete!
✅ 10,000 steps/day every day except the day that I fell in the driveway taking out the trash 🤪
✅ one book/week - finished the tagged book
@wanderinglynn #bookfitnesschallenge #bfc
so-soThis book took me waaay longer to read than it should have done.. Overall great story, interesting characters and a strange concept 😳 3/5
That dinner when you‘re exhausted because you only got 3 hours of sleep last night because the cat is *not* adjusting well to the new move, but past you was smart and stuck easy Trader Joe‘s foods in the freezer.
pick"Time is the most precious commodity of all."
What a journey that was, I'm slightly exhausted for the book characters. Roger and Dodger both made me fall in love with them. I really enjoyed watching their sibling relationship wax and wane, strengthen and weaken. Seanan McGuire has such an awesome, creative mind. I have no idea how she ever came up with the idea for the story but I absolutely loved it.
pickA friend recommended that I read Seanan McGuire. I couldn‘t put MIDDLEGAME down. She has crafted a fascinating take on the terrors of the Alchemical Arts.
“”I‘m saying if they wanted to control the elemental forces of creation, they shouldn‘t have turned us into people. People have their own agendas.”
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pickImagine having a secret best friend, a magic sibling that you could communicate with without anyone knowing, a soulmate, and then becoming estranged from them not once, but twice. Loneliness and alienation are more powerful in this book then all the evil alchemists and homunculi ever.
Happy Father‘s Day to all the fellow dads out there in Litsy Land. Been reading this one for past couple of days. Really, really like it. Basically it‘s about (and this is the ultra short-doesn‘t do it justice snippet) a rogue alchemist trying to bring magic back into the world by capturing logic and math in two children. Very good!
About to the middle of MIDDLEGAME. Twisty tale is becoming very twisty!!
Pausing for coffee (and some reading, of course) between packing, carting boxes downstairs, and unpacking. And laundry. So much laundry. Lol
She can no more conceive of failure than a butterfly can conceive of calculus. ❤️❤️
My signed copy arrived today!!! The cover 😍
I‘m not really sure how to describe this one. It sounds really interesting. Check Goodreads for the longer synopsis.
Reed is skilled in the alchemical arts. He created twins Roger and Dodger. Reed wants to raise the twins to the highest power and claim their authority as his own.
I‘ve heard nothing but great things about this book. Add it to those TBRs 📚
pickI made a list of 22 books for #WyrdandWonder and was bet that I couldn't strike them all off the list by the end of May. It was agreed that May doesn't end properly until I sleep after midnight on the 31st, and that for the sake of sense that 4am was the cutoff.
I have done it!
Middlegame was the last book. Tricksy timeline, lots of fascinating stuff, still need to digest it.
Oooohhhh, so this is creepy and interesting and I can‘t stop reading. My first book by McGuire but if it‘s all as good as the first 50 pages it definitely won‘t be my last.
Recent bookmail, including a YA subscription book box focusing on BIPOC authors & artisans that I backed on Kickstarter! This is the first box & I have credits for two more; I will likely save them for the fall since I‘ll have a lot less reading time once camp starts (in 1mo!!!) I haven‘t opened it yet, but I‘ll do an unboxing post when I do because I‘m super excited about this one!
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#bookmail #diversereads #marginsbox
I am SO excited for this. There are about a dozen other books “in line” (AKA due back to the library) before this one, but I have a feeling this will jump to the top of the pile.
Here is the book haul I picked up with the Barnes & Noble gift card my sister sent me! 😄 I've heard so many good things about the Red Queen trilogy and I'm excited about it! Also I loved Middlegame so much when I read my library's copy that I felt compelled to get my own copy! 💕📚💕 #bookhaul
I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out why this book seems so familiar to me. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. The weird back and forth time line thing and contacting yourself from the past and future. Definitely not the same story, but the time thing keeps messing with me just like in Dark Matter. Just 130 pages left and still enjoying it👍
Loving this! If you‘re a fan of The Wayward Children series, pick this up.
Reading in bed with Chaplin for a bit before work! 😸💕 I picked this up from my library yesterday and am SUPER excited to be starting it! I love her Wayward Children series and if this is half as awesome as those are I am certainly in for a treat! 💕📚 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten
pickI flew through this weird & wonderful, mad & marvellous novel in a little under a day. It had a captivating magic that made it hard to put down. The characters & concept grabbed my attention, and the emphasis on time through the novel kept it. Another damn good book from one of my favourite authors.
In store pick up while in the store! It saved me money on the book but then cost me more because i found more books i wanted! 🤣
Anyone else excited about this one??!!?
Wanna be jelly?? Okay these are not for me. They are for the library support staff conference I chair but I am still so thankful to Tor books and @HarperCollins for sending them. I can‘t wait to show them off and hand them out to our librarians.
Now the only challenge, not reading them before hand.
Soooooo this is a hell of a book to be reading during a storm-fueled power outage... 😳🌧🌬🕯
Excuse you, Miz Thang, may I have my book back, please??? 🙄🤦♀️
In other news, this is my first book for #25infive, and it‘s AMAZING! I looooove Seanan Maguire‘s use of language. It makes my heart sing.
(I will post a photo of the book when I‘ve wrestled it away from the Floof.)
#miyacatsprite #miyareads #booksellerperks
Eating lunch, starting this beauty, and I could not be more excited if I swallowed a cat and broke out in kittens 😍
