It’s taking me forever to reread Ninth House because I’m having trouble concentrating on any books right now. However, I want to put my prediction for Hell Bent somewhere, which I’m even more convinced of by being 50% done with my reread. I think Darlington killed his parents I saw a lot of predictions after the first book that he killed his grandfather but that doesn’t quite ring true for me. Anyway, don’t tell me if I’m right or wrong.

You are either wrong or right! How about that?

I honestly read Hell Bent so quickly that I might need to go back and read it at a more leisurely pace. But I have If We Were Villains from the library, so I'm going to get to that first.

Oh, man, I do want to talk about all that but I can't think of any way to do it without spoilers, so let us try to remember to discuss the whole business of murderers and who they killed later

We’re reading The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley for my book group, and I’m having trouble getting into it. Not sure if it’s the book or me.

Calli - I gave up on The Paris Apartment fairly early. I didn't find any of the characters interesting. And there's so much else out there to read.

I read a couple Lucy Foley books last year. I enjoyed the first one and then felt the second one was almost exactly like the first one, which was a disappointment. Same character types etc.

I’m 2/3rds of the way through my reread now, and I had forgotten a surprising amount of the details of the book. I remember the characters and impressions and the cliffhanger but that was about it.

Well, hi, all. I've got a plan to read 23 books on 2023. Probably laughably few for some of you, but, hey.

I figure reading in here will boost my plan, so I'm going to scour for some recs. That KS in advance!

Right now I'm reading a pretty lackluster book called Dragonfly by Leila Meacham that was gifted to me at Christmas, but I'm almost done, so I'm going to persevere.

The tl;dr - every character is a Mary Sue, and nothing is earned.

I listened to The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson while I was driving back and forth a couple of times at Christmas time. The science was riveting and the mechanations of that world were pretty fascinating to me - the intermingling of academia and commercial endeavors -- though he sometimes got a bit... I dunno, puerile?... with interpersonal stuff. (I don't think I've ever had to spell that word out before. It was hard.)

I've been really lucky in my fantasy reading this month.

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb: If I had to elevator pitch this, I'd call it Jewish Good Omens in early 20th century NYC, and it's so charming and sweet.

Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney is a rather long and twisty story of a rather sunny-natured necromancer with a literal allergy to violence.

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo is Old Hollywood with fae and dark magic.

Oh, hey, I picked up a sample of Saint Death’s Daughter - I think because of a review but I don’t actually remember how I came across it. Anyway, good to hear you liked it! Adds some weight to its entry in the what-to-read-next lottery