mouse started reading The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the …
I can't recall if I've read this before or not. We shall see!
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mouse started reading One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: …
This is a cute train read but it's just not my thing. I keep saying this about well-loved contemporary queer romantic speculative fiction and it's time to accept that it's not my genre.
mouse finished reading Spear by Nicola Griffith
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows …
"Speaks to little kid me" is the theme of books I like this year and this one did it! I didn't realize going in that this was Arthurian so it was a surprise nostalgia hit. It was nice to unreservedly like one of her books after feeling so almost about Ammonite
mouse finished reading Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich …
I stand by my original assessment, that this length of story (four in a volume) is the right length for a raymond chandler story
mouse finished reading Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the …
unsurprisingly, beautiful and heartbreaking
mouse started reading Making Vegan Meat by Mark Thompson
I found this accidentally while looking for Miyoko Schinner's meat cookbook, it looks intriguing so far. It's nice to see a book that isn't just seitan variations, but it calls for a lot of super specialized ingredients that I'm not sure I'll be able to get
mouse commented on Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
I think the reason I like this book so much is that in response to a whale-related traumatic situation, I too would incessantly regale anyone I could corner with whale trivia
mouse started reading I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
the last two novels I read did not hit the spot so if nothing else this should be a splash of cold water deviation from dragging myself through historical fantasy
mouse finished reading Too Much to Know by Ann Blair
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a …
I enjoyed this very much! and if I ever in my life meet someone who is specifically interested in historical information management systems I will recommend it. but it's sure not a popsci beach read
mouse started reading A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (The Last Binding, #1)
Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya …
This isn't really my type of thing but I accidentally only brought it on a weekend away from home so I'm branching out
mouse started reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
a big bite to chew for a chapter-a-day audiobook podcast
mouse reviewed A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #1)
Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Where …
like re-reading a childhood favorite
5 stars
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't …
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it because it's been retrconned into my cherished childhood lore.
mouse started reading The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Bertie and Jeeves do their best to help, and occasionally hinder, love-struck Bingo Little as …
comfort food in audiobook form
mouse finished reading Thrilling Stories of the Railway by Victor L. Whitechurch
Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, as heard …
This was very short and pretty silly
mouse finished reading Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that …
that was sweet