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What Are You Reading?
Greetings and happy Monday! I’m actually coming to you from the past since I’m putting this newsletter together a little earlier than usual on a Thursday. My powers of prediction tell me my reading on Monday will look a lot like my reading today, so here goes.
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Still taking my time with The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard and also finally started Alexis Hall’s Iron & Velvet. It took no time at all for the vampires and sex demons to come out in the latter, this book is not messing around! I plan on keeping those audiobooks in my ears while I go on my walks and errands this weekend–I get a special kick out of listening to filthy romance content while inspecting the avocados at Trader Joe’s or whatever. Que naughty!
As for my next print read: thanks to a damaged shipment of books sent to Book Riot’s Portland offices, I now own a (defective, but so what?) copy of Cackle by Rachel Harrison. *insert evil laugh here* Helloooo, weekend read! It’s described as a darkly funny and frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true. If it’s witchy it just has to be read, those are the rules.
Still reading Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, still don’t know if I’ll finish before my nephew (who is not yet four years old) goes off to college. I’m savoring it though and have really gotten comfortable with making a project out of my bedtime read. Which is a good thing, because I want to try and read The 1619 Project next. I was always going to read it, but all this book banning %#@! is making me bump it up to the top of my TBR out of spite.
And because I’ve almost always got a cozy mystery on deck, I’m going to go find a copy of Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian this weekend. I’m a big fan of Pandian’s Accidental Alchemist series, and I’m sure I’ll love this book too! It has food, it has fancy architecture, it has secrets, and it’s an ode to the classic locked-room mysteries I love so much. Plus this comes with a Jamie Canavés cosign, so how could I not?
That’s what past, present, and future me are reading. What are you reading this week? Click through to add your reading list to the comments!
Stay bad & bookish!
Vanessa