Fantastic Reads and Where to Find Them
Where to find them: your local library, bookstore, or our amazon affiliate links. Fantastic reads: Here they are! I’ve been doing a pretty good job at having read the Hugo nominees before the list...
View ArticleCount Dracula’s Reading List
The quote that I talked about here came to me again as I re-read the same book. The quote is about Dracula (by Bram Stoker). This is a what-are-we-reading post that I will try to fancy up by relating...
View ArticleWhat’s hanging around on your Kindle?
(… or other e-reader?) A copy of Jane Eyre; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Carmilla; Middlemarch; Barchester Towers; a Jeeves book. Father Brown mysteries by G. K. Chesterton. Several books from the...
View ArticleWhat are we getting people for Christmas this year?
DC1: A set of trick decks for the stocking (DC1 is really into card and coin tricks), DC2: Spanish coloring book, a set of 5 field notebooks and a wellspring flip note (DC2 is really into drawing...
View ArticleAsk the grumpies: Recommendations for books with dragons (and other fantasy...
Steph asks: I found Marie Brennan’s “Natural History of Dragons” series through your recs, and I’m also 3 books into the Temeraire series – both of them are super fun! Do you have any other favorite or...
View ArticleThings that are great
Book: Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams Or would you like to read a soothing Victorian-era murder mystery with lots of descriptions of delicious food? Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley...
View ArticleShort stories of astonishing power
Grumpeteers, I have a confession. I started this post with notes to myself back in 2011 and now I don’t know what they mean. Let’s see what we can resurrect from my cryptic ramblings… This was going...
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Unemployment baking
Haven’t done one of these since November– that means you get some holiday baking too. Greek biscotti with wine and spices from Home Baking. IIRC these were very sophisticated and good by themselves or...
View ArticleAsk the grumpies: Recommendations for happy fun novels by underrepresented...
MSWR asks: I’d love to know your recommendations for romance novels and other HEA novels written by BIPOC, especially women. We both read a lot of books by BIPOC, especially women (maybe even only...
View ArticleThe Care and Feeding of Books
This draft is from 2012: Here’s the part I’m not really sure what we were talking about: largely inspired by Anne Fadiman (this post) Gladstone’s quotes Books are delightful society. If you go into a...
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