Life and Things
This was a slow, mostly quiet week. I didn’t do much reading-wise. It’s been a low energy week. We did complete the paperwork to finalise the sale of the property I’ve been dealing with for several months. Things should be completed Monday, and then I can get my new prosthetics! That is very exciting since I’m in need of a bulked up one that doesn’t make the eye look sunken in :/ We also had people come to fix the sliding glass doors. I can get out to my reading nook now!
I’m in a reading slump, or rather more of a life slump… I’ve lost the motivation to read, to write, to do much of anything. Thinking has been so fuzzy lately. It’s the autoimmune condition, I know that. I keep reminding myself that I’m not lazy, that it actually is a health issue, and it is permanent. I can only adapt. My problem lies in regret and irritation over what has been lost… My blood tests are coming back, and I see the doctor again next week. Fingers crossed that these tests point us in the right direction, and I can learn proper coping and adaptation skills. If things don’t improve soon, I think I’ll be putting reviewing and blogging on hiatus.
I think I’m going through a ‘mid-life crises’…. I really kinda loathe that word, though. It’s more an existential crisis. I feel nothing to really show for my life. Everything is mediocre, my health sucks through no fault of mine, and I don’t know how to fix it. Practising Stoicism has been useful, but hard. And now I’m rambling… On to fun things- books!
Books read, reviewed, and posted/scheduled this past week
The Separation by Thomas Duffy, 3*
ISAN by Mary Ting, 4*
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
Yellow Locust by Justin Joschko
Island of the Mad by Laurie R King
Book Haul
‘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.’
‘To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.
The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making…if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.’
‘What if you had a power you had to hide from everyone—until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes.
Welcome to The Point, future leaders of the Posthuman Age.
New Cadets, society is not ready for you. The oldest, fiercest fear is ignorance. The general population would burn you at the metaphorical stake.
Here, you will train alongside other posthumans. You will learn to control and maximize your powers and to use them for the greater good. You will discover camaraderie and purpose.
You will become a part of something bigger than yourselves: the Long Gray Line.
Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she’s a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker—she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn’t yet understand. Now she’s been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their skills, from telekinetic combat to running recon missions through strangers’ dreamscapes. At The Point, Scarlett discovers that she may be the most powerful cadet of all. With the power to control pure energy, she’s a human nuclear bomb—and she’s not sure she can control her powers much longer.
Even in this army of outsiders, Scarlett feels like a misfit all over again, but when a threat that endangers her fellow students arises from the school’s dark past, duty calls and Scarlett must make a choice between being herself and becoming something even greater: a hero.’
