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🎧 it was supposed to be the year of the short book due to chronic reading slumpage. SO many pages 😫

This book is all over the place!! 1882 Victorian London gives this story an awesome Dickinsonian vibe to begin with but it visits Chicago, Scotland, Tokyo …

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When historical fantasy is done well it is one of the most satisfying genres to read. J.M. Miro has created a world full of magic and monsters set in Victorian times. This book has a large cast of characters and lots of action going on. Kids with special "talents" are being hunted. There's an underlying darkness to this tale that made my horror loving mind happy and mixed with the adventure and fantasy made it a perfect read.

I just got an email from Goodreads...I won a copy of this book!!!! 😍😍😍

These lovely gems arrived today! Happy publications day to the newest Guy Gavriel Kay book! Does anyone else love his work? I find his writing to be so exquisitely beautiful! ❤️📖❤️ #bookmail

I have not bailed on a lot of books this year so far, but I was so bored. Not even speeding up past my usual audio speed helped. Made it a quarter of the way through before remembering that I don't have to finish every book I start, so I released it back into the Libby wilds to find a more agreeable reader. #DNF

I've been using #NetGalley for almost a year now and I've never gotten so many books I requested before. I was excited to see all of these added to my account today. I really need to get to reading. 😁

I also picked up True Biz and the new Gilgamesh translation at the library today.

I have a very small list of writers whose novels I look forward to when they release something new. Guy Gavriel Kay is on that small list. Only one week from away from the release of his latest, All The Seas Of The World. Set in the same world as Children of Earth and Sky & A Brightness Long Ago…I‘m totally looking forward to see where else Kay goes in this world. Kay is one of our best contemporary fantasy writers and should be read widely.

I needed some good news today! This releases May 17!!! Can‘t wait!!

If you're familiar with Icelandic sagas, this is probably especially delightful: Tolmie captures something of the rhythm and the language of them (albeit of course in English, but you might be familiar with it even from translations), and the way of thinking. It felt so familiar, like surely it must really be part of that tradition, right down to the interpolations by a later Christian author. I enjoyed it a lot.

That's it, I'm done! Over a hundred pages of this and still nothing has happened, the book is moving at the speed of a glacier. No way I can stand another 375 pages of this nonsense.