I'm reading "Monster She Wrote" - a nonfiction with brief biographies of women who've written horror, etc. I'm only part way through, but so far it's gone into Margaret Cavendish, Ann Radcliff (almost all of whose books I've read) and Mary Godwin Shelley. In addition to the bio, there's a discussion of the writer's work and some of the social influences that led to it and there are some recommendations for reading their books. I've read quite a number of the books by the writers and some of the books mentioned tangentially.

My book for the December Book Club meeting is Harlem Shuffle, but I have given up halfway through. I just couldn't care less about what happens to the protagonist and no other characters have been developed at all. It is sad making because the author, Colson Whitehead, seems to have a great rep.

So I started The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms instead, and I already care more about where it is going.

Life is too short to read books that don't spark joy, or something like that!

Mmm, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is so good

I'm reading The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy because a read a positive review of another series by the same author and I liked the title of this one, it's finished so no waiting around before I can find out what happens next, and it's on Kindle Unlimited so cheap to read. The author appears to have written a TON of these I guess urban fantasy books, I'm not sure I need to seek them all out, but it's a nice, um, whatever the autumn equivalent of a beach read is.

whatever the autumn equivalent of a beach read is

Firepit read

Snuggled up on the couch with a fire going, a soft blankie and a cat curled up next to you read? (yeah, that's too long, but it's pretty much how I feel ... except I don't have a fireplace/firepit or a cat).

I adore The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and that whole Inheritance series. I reread that series and the Dreamblood series during the pandemic, and they remain so damned good.

I am Pix and t in this. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a favorite. Has anyone read Empire of Sand (Tasha Suri)? Very different book but it pulled me in in much the same way.

I really enjoyed Addie LaRue! And somewhere along the way, my brain decided that it was kind of a genderflipped Highlander and (A) I like it even more now, and (B) mad I didn't think of that.

I am reading Hands of the Emperor and enjoying it but got to a part that I thought was maybe 85% done and looked down and realized I was only 25% through. This is a long book!

I have read Empire of Sand! A while ago so details are fuzzy, but I certainly liked it very much.

Hands of the Emperor is hella long. I would have been more reluctant to start it, probably, if I had realized that before starting, especially if I was carrying around an actual thick paper book, so pretty glad I didn’t check that going in tbh

This is a long book!

It really is, but I admit that I enjoyed it a lot.

I'm trying to read Justine by Lawrence Durrell for book club, but it's a bit too much for me. Very literary and lots of bullshit about the sex lives of incomprehensible women. As if that's the only thing of interest about them. I'm not sure I'm gonna finish this.