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Current audiobook listen is Book 2 in the “Vampires Never Get Old” series 🧜‍♀️🌊

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#shortstories

#whereareyoumonday

While still visiting Norway and England in other books, today I am concentrating on Costal Maine, the setting of this collection of stories/vignettes by Sarah Orne Jewett, who was a writer much admired by Willa Cather.

A collection of Novik‘s short stories, including the story that became Spinning Silver and a Temeraire Pride and Prejudice fusion.

I really do adore Novik‘s writing. She has such a gift for scene setting, intriguing characters, & making a tone fit the story. This definitely did its job, because I want to immediately dive into her other books. I put her 1st Scholomance book on hold, double checked I own an audio copy of Spinning Silver.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

DRAGONRIDER ELIZABETH MOTHERFORKING BENNET?!? 🤩🤩🤩

#weekendreads

I have a lot going on this weekend, but I hope to at least have enough time to finish the #ohcanada pick and #EBBR and #NancyDrewBR . Those are quick ones.

I‘m reading the Sarah Orne Jewett b/c of the podcast “One Bright Book” and it takes time to digest.

The bottom two are also slower for me #hashtagbrigade and #DoorstopKristen #KLBR .

Heading out for our local #NoKingsDay protest and taking it to the streets. 💪🏼🇺🇸

A thrilling book of short stories that are weird, mysterious, and sometimes utterly shocking. I love the range of themes and genres that Bora Chung has touched. The stories are unpredictable and some outright gruesome! A wild ride that I devoured.

I really enjoyed Kwame Alexander‘s poetic storyline. As a kid, I loved the idea of casual superpowers like this and I think I would have really enjoyed reading this in middle school. The poetic structure was also alluring and playful, which may help students who dislike poetry to see it as something other than complicated. I don‘t remember seeing poetry that expressed a story like this until college, so it could be a cool read for younger kids.

This story collection, pub. by Pushkin, highlights the absurdity & black humor that Dostoevsky excelled at. I am halfway through the book & have loved both stories I've read. A later entry “The Crocodile“ I had previously read as a New Directions double feature along with Gogol's The Nose and found it to be just as memorable.