(Roof Beam Reader)
Somehow, I managed to read (or finish reading) nine books in the month of January (2021). I wasn’t expecting such a high number, but I think the fact that I was on vacation for ten days at the start of the month helped. I… Continue Reading “What I Read in January”
Magic’s Pawn is the first in a fantasy trilogy written by Mercedes Lackey. I found this one in a random Barnes & Noble search a few months ago, when I was on the hunt for LGBTQ+ fantasy. I don’t read genre fiction all that… Continue Reading “Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey”
In this second “potpour-reads” post, I share some quick thoughts on three recent reads, all of which were completed in May. The Secret Garden was a title on my Classics Club Challenge list. The Burning Maze is third in the Trials of Apollo series… Continue Reading “A Garden, A Maze, A Sematary*”
“The town was full of trees. And dry grass and dead flowers now that autumn was here. And full of fences to walk on and sidewalks to skate on and a large ravine to tumble in and yell across. And the town was full… Continue Reading “The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury”
I finished reading Stephen King’s The Wastelands (Book III in The Dark Towers series) on February 12, 2018. Here I am, on March 18, 2018, finally sitting down to write about it. I’m not sure what that means, except perhaps that I wasn’t feeling… Continue Reading “The Waste Lands by Stephen King”
