Life and Things
Not much going on lately.
Wait…. We got kittens. Can’t be bored with these little monsters roaming around. Meet Loki and Zatanna Do’Urden. Loki is the all-black kitty, and Zatanna has white mittens and chest. I had a kitty named Drizzt Do’Urden who passed a few years ago. I’ve wanted a new male black kitty to name either Jarlaxle, or Zaknafein, two names associated with Drizzt, the drow ranger from RA Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt series. However, the black kitty already had the name Loki, and I couldn’t change it. It’s too perfect. I go to the humane society and get chosen by cats with the names of gods… My other furbaby came with the name Persephone.
Oh, yeah! And my friend and I went to the Bay Area Book Fest and met Laurie R King 😄😄
Books read, reviewed, and posted/scheduled this past week
Casa Nostra by Chris Sarracini & Nick Kilislian, 4*
Summoner: The Outcast by Taran Matharu, 4*
The Unity Game by Leonora Meriel, 4*
Ray vs the Meaning of Life by Michael F Stewart, 5*
Starving Season by Seang M Seng, MD, 5*
Favourite Read(s) of the Week
Current Read
Next Up (maybe)
Building a Trade Empire by Paul E Horsman
High Merchant by Paul E Horsman
The Separation by Thomas Duffy
Yellow Locust by Justin Joschko
Island of the Mad by Laurie R King
Book Haul
‘Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad – however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others . . .
When a school summer trip is offered, Link can think of nothing worse than spending voluntary time with his worst tormentors. But when his parents say he can only leave Osney School – forever – if he goes on the trip, Link decides to endure it for the ultimate prize. But this particular trip will require a very special sort of endurance. The saying goes ‘No man is an island’ – but what if on that island is a group of teenagers, none of whom particularly like each other? When oppressive heat, hunger and thirst start to bite, everyone’s true colours will be revealed. Let the battle commence . . .
From the acclaimed author of S.T.A.G.S.’
‘Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market — until she’s betrayed.
Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” Until her mom brings home a live specimen and Nita decides she wants out; dissecting a scared teenage boy is a step too far. But when she decides to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold in his place—because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” She has the ability to alter her biology, a talent that is priceless on the black market. Now on the other side of the bars, if she wants to escape, Nita must ask herself if she’s willing to become the worst kind of monster.’
