The blog of Luther M. Siler, teacher, author and local curmudgeon
This doesn’t look like much, by my standards, but I started a Sarah J. Maas book on January 31st that ate up the first week of February and I’m only about 70 pages from the end of The Sea Watch, so if a couple of things had shifted around the pile would look a lot bigger.
Book of the Month is a three-way tie between Against the Loveless World, Light from Uncommon Stars and Morning Star, because it’s my blog and I can do that.
Book of the Month is going to be King: A Life, with Bookshelves & Bonedust coming up right behind. I am only 150 pages into the 900-page House of Flame and Shadow, and am still considering abandoning it in favor of a full series reread, as so far my recall isn’t quite what I’d like. We’ll see.
Obviously, Book of the Month is Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath.
Book of the Month is Robert M. Sapolsky’s Determined.
Book of the Month is Chuck Wendig’s Black River Orchard, although Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Empire in Black and Gold (Book 1 of 10!) and Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson’s Shadow of the Short Days were both stellar as well.
Book of the Month is Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami.
Book of the Month is Holy fuck, am I tired by—
Wait. No.
Legends & Lattes. It’s Legends & Lattes.
Remember how, last month, I was all “I think this is one of the biggest piles of books I’ve ever had for Monthly Reads!”
Yeah. About that …
Book of the Month is John Gwynne’s Wrath.