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March 1, 2020
Sunday Salon, 3/1
Books During my Moby-Dick hangover, I threw myself into Alma Katsu’s The Deep. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out for me. Suffered in comparison? Maybe, but I was hoping for something much creepier. By 40% into the book, I wasn’t seeing it. I switched gears. I wanted to read something about magic, but none of my …
February 28, 2020
{Book} Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, the Whale by Herman Melville A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab’s ship and severed his leg at the knee. (via Goodreads) I’ve become one of those people. I first …
February 24, 2020
Monday Salon, 2/24
*cough* Books Finished Moby-Dick! For the second time. I was intending to follow the leisurely schedule that Brona originally set, but I need to return Dive Deeper to the library on Thursday and the last few chapters are a down-hill path. I plan on posting about both on Thursday. Next up, The Deep by Alma …
February 18, 2020
Deal Me In, Week 7 ~ “The Daunt Diana”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Daunt Diana” by Edith Wharton Card picked: 3♦ Found at: Tales of Men and Ghosts “WHAT’S become of the Daunt Diana? You mean to say you never heard the sequel?” Ringham Finney threw himself back into his chair with the smile of the collector who …
February 16, 2020
Sunday Salon, 2/16
Books Slow week. I’m still working on what I was reading last week. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl did not go back to the library. Also I’m behind on Moby-Dick. Television I watched the most recent BBC adaptation of Dracula. It took me a while to realize that the Dracula that was prominently being displayed on …
February 14, 2020
Down the TBR Hole 28
This is a meme started by Lia at Lost in a Story. The “rules” are: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last …
February 9, 2020
Sunday Salon, 2/9
Jumping back in after a week or two of not much blogging. Books What I’d like to read this week: Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories, edited by Neil Christopher The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North & Erica Henderson – Before it goes back to the library on …
February 4, 2020
Down the TBR Hole #27
This is a meme started by Lia at Lost in a Story. The “rules” are: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last …
January 30, 2020
{Book} The Old English Baron
The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend, Arthur, Lord Lovel, is no longer alive, and that the castle and estates of the Lovel family have twice changed hands. But a mysteriously abandoned set of rooms in the castle …
January 23, 2020
{Book} Trail of Lightning
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When …
