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Just hangin around outside with FMA while we wait for the rice to cook. Casey gets a small portion with every meal (he eats four times a day thanks to a pancreatitis bout a couple years back) and I plan to steal some from his pot to go with my leftover beans & lotus root. #deweysapril2024

Enjoying an americano and an egg and cheese sandwich for lunch with my book before watching the women‘s basketball final later (Go Iowa!). It‘s busy here, but I love how many people I see reading! The woman next to me has her kindle, and I‘ve seen people reading 1776 and Murtaugh by Christopher Paolini.

I‘m caught up on my grad school work for the time being, so spending some time with a new book, an iced honey lavender latte, and an asiago bagel with garden veggie cream cheese 🥯 🍯 📖

Centuries-old alchemist Zoe has arrived in Portland and is startled to find a gargoyle as she starts unpacking. And even more startled when he comes to life (oh, and he‘s a great chef). And then a man is found murdered outside her house. I really liked this book, not only for the story, but for these great characters. I look forward to reading more of the series.

#ItTakesAllKinds

Some #Fantasy titles from my way out of control #TBR These are also some of my #OnceUponABookClub titles which means they also have wrapped gifts. Hoping the next #Roll100 picks one to push me through some #OUABC boxes!

Here are some fantasy books off my TBR. Let me know if any of these appeal to you or I can do another closer look at my shelves.

#LMPBC #GroupM #Round20

Today also involved the next part of my long-delayed FMA reread. There‘s so much good stuff here, y‘all; so many characters who do the right thing even when it‘s the very hardest thing. It feels extremely topical, too.

I honestly didn‘t expect to like this book as much as I did. I‘m not a huge fantasy reader so when I started this book I thought it would take something really major for me right get into it. And I guess this had something major because I could not stop turning the pages. I found myself transported into this story and I didn‘t want it to end. I definitely look forward to the next book because I need to know what is going to happen!

I‘m not really sure what it was about this book… there wasn‘t any content I disliked, but by the time I got halfway through I was just bored. Just didn‘t work for me.

I‘ve got an FMA binge in my near future! I managed to get ahead of the other readers by requesting the individual volumes instead of the 3-in-1s, which worked out especially well because somebody recently STOLE the next omnibus. (Boo, library thieves!) I don‘t think I‘ll be able to get any more until late January thanks to some dogsitting gigs that‘ll make it tough for me to access the library, but I‘m gonna enjoy this pre-hiatus glut.