The State of the Reader: 9/6/23
A biweekly post updated every other Wednesday detailing my current reading projects and what new titles I’ve added to my to-read list. Title links go to Goodreads, and if you have an account there feel free to friend me! I’d love to see what you’re reading and/or planning to read.
Books Purchased: 4
- Slow Time Between Stars by John Scalzi (The Far Reaches) – $0.99 @ Amazon Kindle
- Crimson by Abigail Larson – $65.51 @ Liber Distra
- Sweat Connection by Katherine McIntyre (Hot Under the Collar) – $4.99 @ Amazon Kindle
- The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey – $0.00 @ Amazon Kindle (Prime Loan)
- How It Unfolds by James S. A. Corey (The Far Reaches) – $0.99 @ Amazon Kindle
Total: $6.97
Books Finished: 0
Books On Hold: 1
Title: Ninth House
Series: Alex Stern
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Date Added: October 15, 2019
Date Started: July 10, 2023
Media: eBook (Library)
Progress: 13%
As mentioned in my last post a looooong time ago, my loan ran out on this and I’m on the waiting list. Twenty-second in line now (down from thirty-two) with about twenty-two weeks as the wait time.
Books Reading: 5
Title: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Date Added: August 9, 2019
Date Started: August 11, 2023
Media: eBook/Kindle
Progress: 27%
I’m so glad I decided to read another Alix E. Harrow novel after A Spindle Shattered, which was only okay, and I felt a longer story would allow her to really show off her writing chops. She came off as someone who wrote…big? I don’t know how to explain it. She has some of the most beautiful descriptions, and I think the shorter format stymied her a bit whereas this novel craves fleshing out.
She accumulated the dust of other worlds on her skin like ten thousand perfumes, and left constellations of wistful men and impossible tales in her wake.
I love the taste of her prose.
Title: Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory
Author: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Date Added: July 17, 2023
Date Started: July 17, 2023