I signed up for a "one book a week" club at work to see if external pressure would help me start reading actual books again, and it seems to be working. I made it through Fugitive Telemetry and Boyfriend Material and enjoyed them both. Then I read Bonds of Brass because the author supposedly was inspired by Finn/Poe. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled. I probably should have read Renay's review first.

Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled.

BOOOOO. That's disappointing.

I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.

I have a bunch of books on my reader waiting for me to get to them. Since I no longer spend significant time on my commute (yay new neighborhood), I don't get to them as quickly as I once did. I buy a number from the Smart Bitches daily sale listing, and sometimes they're disappointing, but a lot of them I enjoy enough to finish and some ... sigh ... get me hooked on another writer.

I’ve had a hard time finishing books. But I also have book club Sunday and have only read like 10% of it so far.

And also one of the books I DNF’d was Bomds of Brass.

I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.

If you are into audiobooks, I cannot recommend the audio version highly enough. It is narrated PERFECTLY.

Ooh, good to know! Also have that in my TBR but only as a sample so switching to audiobook might work out well for me

I just finished A Desolation Called Peace and dear lord I remember NOTHING from A Memory Called Empire but the good news is that Desolation seems to work fine as a standalone novel. One of these days I will have to go back and read them both one after the other and no doubt experience that universe very differently.

That's good to know, -t. I am on the waitlist at the library. I think I remember things moderately well, but I've read a lot of books recently that seem to have similar elements.

I finished The Doctors Blackwell yesterday (background reading for a project that will come together...eventually...but overall a worthwhile biography).

I finished The Hollow Places today.

I...did less work today than I probably should have. I didn't read any last night, as I think Kingfisher horror books are daytime reading for me. Not sure they're exactly horror, but for sure creepy in a way that I expect will stick, and might keep me up if I read them at night. I hope she keeps up this loose series of sequel/rewrites of hundred-year-old stories.

Those are daytime only books for me, too.