Finished reading The Bone Ship's Wake
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If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero.
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.
James Clear, Atomic Habits
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Finished reading Foundryside
Finished reading The Shepherd’s House
Finished reading These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
Edited 95d ago
Rated So Far Gone 10/10
<div>Admittedly, I tend to be a Jess Walter diehard, but I absolutely loved this. All his novels (that I've read; I'm missing the earliest two) are great, but this one has to be one of his best. Right up there with <em>Beautiful Ruins</em> and <em>Citizen Vince</em>.<br><br>I know, it helps that I lived in Spokane for 7 years, so all these places are quite familiar to me, including having a bunch of extremists next door in Idaho. They weren't as bold when I lived there in the '00s, but I have paid attention in the years since I've moved away, so I know about these assholes who show up at parades and other events trying to make their militia religion part of the fabric of life. Mostly, they are ridiculous and petrified of their own shadows, despite all the posturing.<br><br>But our main guy here, Rhys Kinnick, is a retired newspaperman, a real old school journalist who once knew the ins and outs of everything around him, but who has spent 7 years retreating to the woods after a family blowup, and life has changed considerably in his absence. When his grandkids show up with a note from their mother, needing someone to watch them, he's pulled back into civilization. Then the militia guys, friends of their father, try to kidnap the grandchildren.<br><br>Walter is very fair to the father, describing how a recovering addict might find themselves attracted to an insular community mixed with strict religion. He's not as "far gone" as some of his fellow men at "The Rampart," but he's also very intense and apt to believe wildass conspiracy theories. Hence the family dinner that led Kinnick to punch him in the face.<br><br>This all sounds very serious, but it's actually a very funny novel. I will not spoil the circumstances, but one of my favorite characters was Jeff, just a humble shrooms salesman who only briefly appears, but he's great. Like, someone adapt this into a limited series so we can see some more hijinks with Jeff.<br><br>Anyway! READ IT. It's so great. Truly. Among my faves this year, for sure.</div><div><br></div>
If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!
Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.
Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way.
Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!
If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance!
The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books.
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Just finished reading String of Pearls, the original #SweeneyTodd penny dreadful. Really long, but a lot of fun. Thanks, @gutenberg_org, for making the #book easy to find and download.
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Finished reading Empire of the Feast
Rated Doctor Who: Free Speech 10/10
This one of my favorite Spragg contest shorts yet. Well worth a listen.
If one ever needed further confirmation that smart people don't necessarily make outstanding mates, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love is a great starting point. Andrew Shaffer has assembled the lacking love stories of 37 philosophers, mostly male, whose words may have stood the test of time, but their ability to personally connect did not. There's not really a lot to analyze here — If you dabble in psychology or philosophy, or if you want to send a funny gift to a student of these subjects, this is a decent book. It's a quick read and the anti-chinstroke to other books on the subject of the historically notable in love.<br><br>(My full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/06/great-philosophers-who-failed-at-love.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
I can't say this has ever happened to me, but I understand some readers worry about getting to the end? 🤔
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Finished reading The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
Rated Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles 8/10
I read Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles right after Kristopher Jansma's The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, and they complimented each other to the point of Miracles almost reading like a sequel to Leopards. Both deal with unreliable male protagonists speaking to the reader, men who need some enlightening on matters of women and healthy relationships.<br><br>I preferred Jansma's book, but Miracles is still quite good. Currie's self-named character somewhat accidentally fakes his own death in the Caribbean, and as a result, his novel becomes a bestseller. He misses the woman with whom he'd lived “pre-death,” and eventually coming “back to life” makes the public unhappy with upending their Lost Genius fiction they'd constructed in his absence. We all have stories we tell ourselves, and facing their inaccuracies is startling.<br><br>(More at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/11/for-your-reading-pleasure-3-books-on.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary 8/10
<div>Though some of the factual asides — those little bits of irresistibly mentionable research that don't quite fit the brief — could maybe have been narrowed, this was still an informative, interesting read. Some of the spices, I'd never heard of, and discussion of others made me want to cook. (I have a bit of a problem when it comes to buying all sorts of herbs and spices.) If a person wanted to do further research, there is also a fairly comprehensive notes section, as well as a small section on different spice blends.</div>