I liked all three volumes of that trilogy! Vasya is my kind of heroine.

I'm only a couple chapters in, but it was a nice setup. Looking forward to seeing where it heads. Also, I prefer series because I can hang on to favored characters longer.

I *adore* the whole Bear and Nightingale trilogy.

Shir I will try to read that soon but the built in e-reader is not adapting well to my phone. It looks good! I admit to not knowing anything; are you the author?

Popping in to pimp a book. My friend Tom has written a YA mystery called Keep This to Yourself about Mac, a young, openly gay guy trying to solve the mystery of a serial killer who killed Mac's best friend as his last victim. [link]

Here's the blurb:

It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he's drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all. Now nobody—friends, neighbors, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is following his every move, Mac struggles to come to terms with his true feelings towards Connor while scrambling to uncover the truth.

It was a really enjoyable read, that had just the right amount of suspense and twists to keep you going. And I did not figure out the ending...though I had inklings about parts of it. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't like it because I've been psyched to read it for a while. But I think it's a great summer read with a def. Lois Duncan vibe to it. So if you like YA and/or mysteries, check it out at better bookstores and libraries!

Shir I will try to read that soon

Yay!

are you the author?

Oh no. Really not. I am absolutely not an SFF writer. Not even a fanfic writer. The author is a friend and a really awesome person. Most of all, I'm excited about the opportunity to discuss original Israeli SFF writing here - so much of what I'm reading is local, and a lot of it is fantastic and I want to share it with the world. This is just a really good book and a great opportunity to do so.

I read an interesting memoir this month. [link]

My link was wrong.(Sometimes it comforts me to remember that I saw one of html's creators on TV once, and he said in a dry British way, that if he knew ordinary people would be using it, he'd have made addresses shorter.) Here it is, the right way. [link]

I just finished Seanan McGuire's Middlegame. It is definitely one of the most ambitiously complex books she has done yet, and felt like one of the longest too. I recommend it for sure.

I finally have my hands on the latest Mercy Thompson novel from the library.