This is, well, this is a lot. And it’s only the beginning of a deluge that probably won’t taper off much until fall. And some of you are probably wondering if I’ve lost my mind, wondering when I’m going to manage to read all of these, or both. Most likely both.
Consider this the annual posting of the disclaimers, of which there are basically two.
First, I am (again) on a book awards committee for the American Library Association. This year it’s The Reading List, which selects the best books of the year for adult fiction in eight genres, Adrenaline (read as thriller), Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Relationship Fiction (AKA Women’s Fiction), Romance and Science Fiction. A significant portion of the books I’ll be picking up for the rest of the year are FOR the committee. I never say which ones, and it’s more difficult to tell with this particular committee as it’s the kind of stuff I read anyway. I probably won’t even mention the committee again by name until next January when our deliberations are done, dusted and distributed.
While it’s particularly germane right now because of the size of this stack and the stacks to come, I (a) don’t have to read all the books the committee requests. There’s a winnowing process that condenses the already ginormous number into a semi-manageable mass. Which leads to (b), that even without whatever committee I happen to be on, in the end – for very long definitions of end – I only read about half of what I receive. Some books turn out not to be for me. Sometimes it’s the right book at the wrong time and I pick them up again later, and sometimes that’s it for always. And sometimes the ’round tuit’ just doesn’t come around. This is part of what makes ebooks so marvelous. If I had this many physical books coming in, my house would have fallen in a LONG time ago!

























For Review:
An Age of Winters by Gemma Liviero (ebook and audio)
At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca
Bitter Passage by Colin Mills (ebook and audio)
ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado, translated by Sue Burke
The Crash by Freida McFadden
Crush by Ada Calhoun
Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier
The Family Inside by Katie Garner
The Garden by Nick Newman
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
Immortal (Celestial Kingdom) by Sue Lynn Tan
The Legend of Meneka (Divine Dancers #1) by Kritika H. Rao
The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, translated by Frank Wynne
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
The Relationship Mechanic (Peach Blossom #2) by Karmen Lee
The Shiver Tree by Holly Searcy
The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
A Tiny Piece of Blue by Charlotte Whitney
Trust Issues by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands
Untethered by Angela Jackson-Brown
Variation by Rebecca Yarros (ebook and audio)
A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison (ebook and audio)
We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
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