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July reads… featuring 2 space opera sci-fi, 1 cozy sci-fi, an epic renaissance fantasy, a gothic witchy horror, a time-loop book and a contemporary novel about trans lives. Good books, good range! Only one not for me: On the Calculation of Volume. I like more action. And characters. 📚💙

August TBR challenge time! Author not UK/US - Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova (Bulgarian-New Zealander); and book with a long journey - Temeraire by Naomi Novik. Challenge going well! 📚💙

Excellent article about buying books you don't read and how it contributes to well being 📚💙 And love that the Japanese have a word for it! #tsundoku theconversation.com/why-you-keep...?

Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so goodWhy a pile of unread books is not stressful, yet a pile of unread emails is.theconversation.com

Recent read - and a bit of a surprise as I recently told someone here I wasn't into witchy books! It starts as a story of a mute/drugged woman in a rocking chair in an old New Orleans house; and a young doctor in San Francisco who has weird things happen to her. OK,intriguing start...

Five living writers that you’ve read five books by each: Margaret Atwood Robin Hobb Katharine Kerr VE Schwab Becky Chambers and many more!

Trying out a June reads post: Favourites: - Seek the Traitor's Son - The Devils - Old Man's War - Red City Good reads for different reasons: - Poseidon's Wake - The Fireman - The Girl with a Thousand Faces Not for me: - The Book of Guilt - The Poet Empress 📚🪐💙

Time for my July TBR challenge books! A book with an empire – starting, ending or changing - Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay; and a whole series - didn't have a whole series on TBR so chose the last 3 books of The Expanse, James SA Corey. Have the rest of year to finish those. 📚🪐💙

Why didn't I like this more?? Maybe if I hadn’t read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, which is excellent & has a similar premise? It seemed too easy a read given the dark topic, and just didn’t make me think enough. Even what is meant to be the big ethical question is really…not. Opinions?? 🪐📚💙