Life and Things
I did my Devil’s Slide walk! It was soooo beautiful. It was nice to have a chance to admire the view without the fear of going over the cliff. I’m confident I could have made the return walk but chose to forego it this trip. A goal three out from the current one of Devil’s Slide both ways is to do the hike over Montara Mountain.
Here are some pics from the walk.
Aside from having a great walk, April 1st was my birthday, and I had a pretty good one. I went out to dinner, and for the first time ever, I passed over the chance to have steak!! Steak is my favourite and I can only have it for special occasions now, but it’s not what I was craving. These guidelines really are turning me into an otter. I chose a fish dish- grilled salmon and green beans.
Books read, reviewed, and posted/scheduled this past wee
Baby Bird by Andrew Gibbs, 4*
Moribund by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, 4*
Ouroboros by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, 4*
White Sand Vol 2 by Brandon Sanderson, 4*
Favourite Read(s) of the Week
Circuit Fae Series by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge
Current Read
Next Up (maybe)
Building a Trade Empire by Paul E Horsman
High Merchant by Paul E Horsman
ISAN by Mary Ting
Sindicate by JT Nicholas
Notes of Magic by Jessica Bucher
Book Haul
‘New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer in Miss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City.
Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But is this life she lives the only path she’s on? Taking inspiration from the myth of Emer and Cuchulain and featuring an all-star cast of mythical figures from all over the world, David Duchovny’s darkly funny fantasy novel Miss Subways is one woman’s trippy, mystical journey down parallel tracks of time and love. On the way, Emer will battle natural and supernatural forces to find her true voice, power, and destiny. A fairy tale of love lost and regained, Miss Subways is also a love letter to the city that enchants us all: New York.’
‘”As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty—most of them in someone else’s body.” —USA Today
John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi’s trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent’s head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are “threeps,” robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden’s Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it.
Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.
Is it an accident or murder? FBI agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth—and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.’
