Welcome to this week’s contribution to the STABLE environment at Chez Reading Reality. By STABLE, I’m referencing that acronym I talked about last week, where STABLE stands for STash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy, because my book collection, including ebooks, passed that point YEARS ago. Now that I think of it, this interpretation of STABLE fits entirely too well with the interpretation of FINE in the Chief Inspector Gamache books, where FINE is an acronym for “Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.” The world in general is a very strange place – and books help even if what they help with is a temporary escape!
This stack has a some really pretty books in it, especially The Book Witch, The Geomagician, The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale, and The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains. Green & Deadly Things and Seasons of Glass and Iron are both on the pretty side, but they’re also pretty damn creepy so they merits a special category all by themselves where they can’t infect anything else. They’ve already infected Wolf Worm.
The books I’m most looking forward to are A Day of Judgment (even if I won’t get there until I’ve read more of the series unless I skip a lot – and I might because A Christmas Witness was just SO GOOD), This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, Lightning Runes and Wolf Worm. I’ve already read Blindside, The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers, and Nobody’s Baby, and I’m in the middle of The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale and Trace Elements, both of which are excellent so far but in entirely different ways!
This turned out to be a GREAT stack! What about yours?
For Review:
Blindside (Planetside #5) by Michael Mammay
The Book of Fallen Leaves (Autumn Empire #1) by A.S. Tamaki
The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer
Cabaret in Flames by Hache Pueyo
Crawlspace by Adam Christopher
A Day of Judgment (Inspector Ian Rutledge #25) by Charles Todd
Dig by J.H. Markert
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula
The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers by Kenneth Hunter Gordon
Green & Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons
Lightning Runes (City of Shadows #2) by Harry Turtledove
Nobody’s Baby (Dorothy Gentleman #2) by Olivia Waite
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by C.M. Waggoner
The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1) by Ilona Andrews
Trace Elements by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Smoke and Mirrors (Tales of Valdemar #19) edited by Mercedes Lackey
Borrowed from the Library:
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (book + audio)
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The struggle is real, trying to find time to read all the books! Happy reading.
There really does need to be a reading equivalent to “eyes bigger than stomach” because that’s not right but there’s definitely something there. Happy Reading!
Marlene Harris recently posted..Stacking the Shelves (682)
There are some pretty books there. I want to get back to reading fantasy. I haven’t read it in a while and I am missing it!
Have a great weekend!
Cozy fantasy is the best thing ever for that. It’s just right and nobody dies. OTOH, sometimes watching a few deserving characters die is just what the psyche needs. Books are everything!
Marlene Harris recently posted..Stacking the Shelves (682)
I love those acronyms! My TBR list is constantly being revised so I can keep it at least somewhat manageable (I thank my mom who always had me cleaning out cupboards and drawers as a kid)!
And I thank my mother she either gave up trying or I ignored her when she did. Books are some of my bestest friends. Seasons Readings!
Marlene Harris recently posted..Stacking the Shelves (682)
I love it, Marlene. I also have a STABLE. I really like the sound of The Book Witch, so off to see if I can find it. I hope you enjoy all these new acquisitions.
All those books look so good! I hope you enjoy them. Have a great week!
I love it. I too have so many books I will never be able to read them all.