Finished teasing Hell Bent and now can’t wait for the next one to come out. I wasn’t really feeling either Sabriel or The Librarian of Burned Books, so I picked up After the Bite by Lynsay Sands. Sometimes mindless vampire pen is just what you need.
Finished Long Bright River by Liz Moore. A decent read about homicide, addiction, dysfunction, and policing.
I started All Systems Red by Martha Wells, the first Murderbot book. I’ve listened to it on audio before but I was able to get it in an epub bundle from Tor Books. I do miss Kevin R. Free’s narration though.
I just read Paris, the Memoir by Paris Hilton.
For those who think she is a vapid rich girl, read it. Her parents sent her to places that supposedly helped troubled teens and she was abused there. For 2 years. I almost didnt finish it, it was difficult to think of the teens who were abused at these facilities.
She probably wouldve been treated better at the Spahn ranch.
Yeah, well I was abused also, and didn’t have any money. I don’t waste any time hating Paris Hilton though. 
Finished Warlock of the Witch World, by Andre Norton.
Started Sorceress of the Witch World, also by Norton.
Next up: An Oblique Approach, by David Drake and Eric Flint.
I’m in the middle of Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer. It’s about a writer going through a crisis, narrated by his partner, and I’m loving the writing. I find myself slowing down because I don’t want the book to be over.
She’s terrific in Westworld, too: smart, fierce, poised, beautiful, badass.
I just read “ruin of kings” by Jenn Lyons. It’s the first of 5 books, collectively called “a chorus of dragons”.
It’s a really intriguing book set in a large and complicated fantasy world.
Finished We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor, which was okay.
Now I’m reading Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, by Temple Grandin.
Finally finished The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection. Very good. I knew Fitzgerald from his handful of novels but didn’t quite realize how prolific a writer he was. He wrote a ton of short stories, and I enjoyed every one of them in this giant collection, many of them autobiographical to varying degrees, although the ones toward the end of his life were a lot sadder than his early ones. By that time he was battling alcoholism, and Zelda was going batshit crazy. Included here was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I never saw the Brad Pitt film, but the story takes barely 45 minutes to read – how they managed to stretch that out to almost three hours is hard to imagine.
Next up is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson.
It’s very good. I, personally, had a hard time reading it knowing what was going to happen to all those people Larsen was bringing to life.
Over the weekend, I read Weyward, a YA (?) novel by Emilia Hart. The story takes place in three different time periods, about women of the same lineage who have powers due to their connection to nature. By the time I got to the end of the book, I was really uncomfortable with how almost all men were portrayed as evil. It’s a women’s revenge fantasy, but even if that’s what I wanted to read, I wouldn’t have been connected enough to any of the characters to get my rocks off.
Galileo and the Science Deniers Mario Livio
A biography of the scientist, focusing on his clashes with the Church over geocentrism versus heliocentrism
A little dry in places, but good overall.
Recommended
Just finished After the Bite . Not sure what I feel like grabbing next, but whatever it is will be coming with me to pick BtY up from school.
Finished “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells on Kindle, I have previous listened to it through Audible. I still enjoyed, I still think the ending was rather abrupt and the action could have built up to a more explosive ending, but it was still an enjoyable read.
I loved that. Iike popcorn. I liked the characters, I liked the setting, and the plot was plenty good enough.
Found it at at the used book store and have read three chapters. I think I’m going to like this one.
I felt it got pretty much better and better to the very satisfying ending.
Finished Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, by Temple Grandin, which was interesting.
Now I’m reading Greenglass House, by Kate Milford.