Freaky shit in the scary woods

Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years #2 / Kate Daniels #10.6 Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews with Hillary Huber (Narrator), Michael Glenn (Narrator) 7h 26m • audio • first pub 2023  • 🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣 Kate and Curran have just settled into their new home and their 'low profile, ' when a local businessman approaches them with an offer they can't refuse. A mysterious evil has spawned in the nearby forest …

Top Ten Tuesday—Halloween Freebie

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique …

Short Stuff — African SpecFic, done!

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) by Eugen Bacon, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Milton Davis and others 422 pages • digital • first pub 2022 … to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa. I finally finished! I started to really dig into the remaining stories last weekend during Dewey‘s October Readathon and …

Think normal suburban thoughts. How hard could this be, right?

Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years #1 / Kate Daniels #10.5 Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews  with Nora Achrati (Narrator), Michael Glenn (Narrator), Charles Joseph (Narrator), Jonathan Church (Narrator), Evan Casey (Narrator), Delton Engle-Sorrell (Narrator), Keval Shah (Narrator), Matthew Bassett (Narrator), Dylan Lynch (Narrator), Jon Vertullo(Narrator), Tia Shearer (Narrator) 5h 1m • Graphic Audio • first pub 2023 • 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️☆ Kate, Curran and their son, Conlan have left Atlanta, vowing to keep a low profile, and are settling into a new city and new house…but …

Level Achievement!

Dungeon Crawler Carl #3 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman with Jeff Hays (Narrator) 16h 54m • audio • first pub 2021 • 🐈🦖🚂½☆ Amazon gifted 60 days of free Audible to me, including 3 credits. Here we are, I decided to spend the first credit on continuing Carl‘s descend into the dungeon. The top ten list is populated. The sponsorship program is …

Blast from The Past: Provenance

Imperial Radch Provenance by Ann Leckie 439 pages • digital • first pub 2017  •  read in October 2017 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure …

It was not his place to judge men’s souls…

Penric & Desdemona #4 (#5 by now) Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold with Grover Gardner  (Narrator) 4h 3m • audio • first pub 2020  •  🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭 Bastard’s Eve is a night of celebration for most residents in the canal city of Lodi -- but not for sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona, who find themselves caught up in the …

Top Ten (Five) Tuesday—Autumnal Colors

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

I am the locusts, and the frogs, and the river of blood.

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Author and Narrator) 3h 46m • audio • first pub 2020  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆  Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from …

The Stars Journeyed to Us.

Yesterday’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt was Books that Conjure Up Happy Memories. And while I have happy memories, I was struggling to come up with books that conjured them up. Books that made me happy on the other hand are easier. That‘s probably the intention of the prompt anyway. I would perhaps list a lot …