Showed up on my phone overnight! Very excited

excellent!

This last week, I read The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, which was published in 1926. It was remarkably good: a domestic novel about the life of a white share-cropper woman in (possibly?) Appalachia in the early 1900s. It almost read like an SF novel: it's such an insular community, confined by poverty and ignorance, but still experiencing all the variety of human experience. I thought it was excellent, if more than a bit over-written.

And I'd never heard of it, or Roberts, before, because patriarchy, I assume.

I was just reading a book from the library and had the strongest deja vu for one random paragraph. Maybe it was a pull quote from something? (Odd choice if so). But getting to the end I’m more annoyed it’s book one of a series rather than a stand alone (“The Atlas Six” by Olivie Blake).

I have SO many books that have come off hold but I am trying to not read them until I’m on a 14 hour flight and need them!

I’m at Te Papa, the museum in New Zealand that has a ton of Māori stuff, and wow, some of the navigation stuff is very Kip Mdang. I’m assuming she did a ton of research (for the less fantastical parts of it at least!)

Oh, cool! That's always fun, and makes me feel better about the books (which I already felt pretty good about, but now even better)

Te Papa is amazing! I still want to go back to Wellington and spend at least a week there.

Yeah we went to Te Papa on Wednesday when we got to town and didn’t see it all, so when our morning ferry was canceled/rescheduled to afternoon, we went back to see the rest! Which is when I saw the navigation info that made me think of the Emperor series.

Anyone reading anything wonderful and new? I've been in a horror mood, and I can't recommend The Last House on Needless Street enough. Oh, and Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay, which is not really new, but a real gut punch. Which I was not expecting from what is more or less a zombie novel.

Also devouring Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series (Victorian mystery). They're almost a really early reboot of her Lady Julia mysteries, down to characterization and everything else, but I'm not really caring because they're so much fun, and I adored the Lady Julia books anyway.

Amy I’ve been in a reading slump lately. So, I’ve been reading some T Kingfisher books. Currently, The House With Good Bones, which I think is newish and a fast read. I finished Thornhedge last week, which was also a good, fast read. And I recently became obsessed with Jennifer Saint’s Greek mythology retellings.

I have Chuck Tingle's horror novel Camp Damascus sitting next to me waiting to be read. It's gotten great reviews and I can't wait to get into it.