Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all!
I’m settling in for the most dramatic and emotionally draining stretch of the Work In Progress, so it’s been a comfort reading week, which has mostly consisted of continuing to chain read my way through the Lockwood & Co books (which I now hear is being made into a Netflix series!), with the grand finale, Book Five, The Empty Grave, which managed to pull off the difficult feat of being an entirely satisfactory series conclusion.
I also belatedly re-read my own Orchid Affair for this week’s belated Orchid Affair Read Along– and was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I hadn’t realized how much my feelings about the book were tainted by all the drama around the cover. I’d forgotten how much I adored Andre and Laura, and particularly Monsieur Daubier.
And now… I’ve run out of Lockwoods, so I’m not sure what to read next. It might be time for a Simone St. James readathon. Or possibly some of the ghost stories of E.F. Benson.
What have you been reading this week?
I read the first in the Sam Quinn Urban Fantasy series titled “The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar” which was fun and bookish, and I really like that it’s diverse Urban Fantasy, IE, not just werewolves and vampires but gorgons and furies and demons and shifters and mermaids, I wouldn’t expect less in a series set in San Francisco. So I dove into book two, “The Dead Don’t Drink at Lafitte’s” and it’s a little TOO vampire BS, so I’m not getting through it as fast… we’ll see. I do want to finish it, but when vampire stories go too Anne Rice, New Orleans, blah, I tune out a bit.
“The Ghost Tree” by Christina Henry for my online book club and the audiobook of “Midnight Manzanilla” (which was fabulous and now I had to buy “Moonflower” because of Eloise & Colin and that cliff-hanger!) Just had to add all those Jonathan Stroud books to my Christmas wishlist too.
Finishing The of the Romance of the Forest.