Today is the Fourth of July. Well, duh, sorta/kinda. I mean, it’s certainly hot enough to be July – meaning it’s too damn hot. But it’s the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which should be a really huge deal. The Bicentennial in 1976 certainly was. I was in college and it seemed like stuff about the Bicentennial was EVERYWHERE and everyone was just thrilled to celebrate it.
This Semiquincentennial – meaning 250th – celebration has been kinda meh, when it hasn’t been outright terrible as well as terribly hot. And not just because “Semiquincentennial” doesn’t trip off the tongue nearly as easily as “Bicentennial” did 50 years ago.
Whatever or however or if-ever you’re celebrating Independence Day, this household at least still has plenty of books to celebrate with. Meaning stay in and read because it’s too hot to be out. And it’s too loud for the cats so they need us to stay in and keep them calm.
The prettiest books in this stack, and we do have a bit of pretty this time around (YAY!) are The Art of Charming a Changeling and A Wall Is Also a Road. (I’ve already finished Wall and it DOES live up to that gorgeous cover!) A Lady’s Guide to Love and Pirates and Lady X are a bit in dialog with each other, as that Lady’s Guide is part of the Proper Romance Historical series from Shadow Mountain Publishing while Lady X is anything but proper.
Unfortunately, the cover of Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends looks rather like someone spilled Pepto-Bismol ALL over it. Which does not bode well for the story. OTOH, the book I’m most looking forward to in this stack – although not necessarily for its rather understated cover – is Murder on Threadneedle Street because it’s next in a series that I’ve been enjoying and I’m looking forward to discovering what happens next for the characters.
What’s happening next at Chez Reading Reality, at least for this weekend, is going to be the incapussitation of the humans so that the cats can feel better about the fireworks! Stay cool this weekend if you can!
For Review:
The Art of Charming a Changeling (Pigments & Paramours #1) by Sylvie Cathrall
Blood Bound (Cursed Covenant #1) by Ellis Hunter
The Devil Knows Her Name by C.N. Vair
Echoes of the Lost by Cindy Brown
The Fervent Whites by De’Shawn Charles Winslow
The Fine Art of Lying by Alexandra Andrews
Gray Area (Off the Books #3) by Kay Cove
Honey by Imani Thompson
I’ll Watch Your Baby by Neena Viel
Lady X by Molly Fader
A Lady’s Guide to Love and Pirates by Jennifer Moore
The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Susan Patterson and James Patterson
Murder on Threadneedle Street (Wrexford & Sloane #10) by Andrea Penrose
Night Objects by Eli Raphael
On Thin Ice (Ice Kings #1) by S. Rena
Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends by A.D. Sui
Scandal of the Summer by Alexandra Vasti
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz
Worth the Fight (Unsanctioned #3) by Anna Hackett
You’ll Love It Here by Natalie Sue
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Interesting looking books.
It has been cooler here. Still way too hot for my liking, but a vast improvement from the week before. It is apparently going to get hot again next week or the week after. I’m dreading it, especially with my son’s birthday party to host!
Anyway have a great rest of the weekend!
I hope you get cooler weather than you’re expecting. This heat is a case of too much of a good thing NOT being wonderful. And happy birthday to your boy!
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I hadn’t realised there was a new Sylvie Cathrall coming out! I’m excited for that.
Hope you enjoy all of them, of course!
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That one does look adorable. I looked up your reviews of her earlier series and they sound fascinating. Epistolary novels are HARD to do well, but when they work, they really, really work! Enjoy your books!
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Happy Independence Day! It’s been very hot here, too. I didn’t go anywhere today. Have a great week and stay cool! 🙂
Oh my word. When I saw you mention the cover of Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends, I had to see what you meant.
Goodness, how did no one in the editing room stop this?! At least do a different color background or something. Sheeeesh. Hopefully we are all being judgemental jerks and the story is brilliant.
Fingers crossed!
Enjoy your books and Happy 4th.
Happy Fourth everyone
OOh nice new reads! Lots of new to me ones although I do keep finding myself debating about Blood Bound! I hope you enjoy all of your lovely new reads!
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I agree that there just hasn’t been the enthusiasm for the 250th anniversary of the signing as there was for the 200th (which I remember.) Some of that is because a decade of planning was scrapped by the Trump administration, and then they tried to pull something together on short notice…which really doesn’t work for events of this scale and importance. There were some excellent local events planned in the historic city near us, but yikes, it was much too hot. (We had Extreme Heat Warnings for 4 days in a row.) We stayed home, watched the “A Capitol Fourth” celebration on PBS on July 3, and watched National Treasure last night.
Wow, that’s a lot of new additions, Marlene. I hope you enjoy them all. I’ve got a few of these on my TBR shelf as well.
I’ve really enjoyed the Annalee Newitz books I’ve read so now I clearly have to add A Wall is Also a Road to my TBR! And I’m also interested in The Art of Charming a Changeling.