Today is Mother’s Day in the US and a lot of other countries. So, if you’re in one of those countries – Happy Mother’s Day. (This applies whether your children are human or furred or feathered or fanged or whatever. PetMoms count!) If your own Mom is in one of the countries celebrating today, please wish her a Happy Mother’s Day from everyone here at Chez Reading Reality.
This week has been a LOT around here, and most of it unplanned. The simple, bookish part of that unplanning was that the book I intended to close out the week with won’t be published until the end of the month. So my review of Ode to the Half-Broken is postponed for a bit. Howsomever, the book is absolutely awesome, so if you liked Automatic Noodle or A Psalm for the Wild-Built, you’ll want to read it. I promise.
We also suffered from a whole lot of computer shenanigans that are still being cleaned up. Nothing went as planned around here!
But speaking of shenanigans, this week’s cat picture has a guest. There’s a neighborhood cat, the big tuxedo in the doorframe, who keeps coming around and driving our cats crazy. ‘Tux’ has a collar, and has clearly never missed a meal in his life, so he has people. Which doesn’t mean that he either a) doesn’t enjoy trolling our cats and b) wouldn’t mind coming in with them when it’s storming as bad as it has a few nights this week.
For anyone seeing this picture and thinking that Tux out there is not our cat, YET, do not release that thought out into the universe. We all beg you. The Cat Distribution System™ is ALWAYS on the lookout for stray thoughts just like that one, but as the picture clearly shows, George would not be amused!
Current Giveaways:
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Come What May Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in The Spring Giveaway Event!
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Spring 2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
Blog Recap:
B- #BookReview: For Better or Murder by Simon R. Green
A- #BookReview: The Vampyre Client by Jeri Westerson
A-#BookReview: L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 42 edited by Jody Lynn Nye
Grade A #BookReview: Platform Decay by Martha Wells
A+ #BookReview: Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler
Stacking the Shelves (704)
Coming This Week:
Radiant Star by Ann Leckie (#BookReview)
Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots (#BookReview)
And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (#BookReview)
Out of Her League by Ava Rani (#AudioBookReview)
Never and Always by Anna Hackett (#BookReview)
