New to the Queue #11

Jamie of Perpetual Page Turner started this and I love it so I'm (politely) stealing it! I add a lot of stuff to my TBR list, my Netflix queue, and my library holds list. Here's stuff I want to actually seek out and consume right now. Stuff to Read Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories by Vandana Singh …

Bout of Books 14

I am usually way behind the times on mini-challenges, but this week I read the right blog post at the right time, and now I can participate in Bout of Books 14! (#woot) The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda (On a Book Bender) and Kelly (Reading the Paranormal) that runs from Monday, August 17th through Sunday, …

Spring Has Sprung…

...my update schedule. (#ugh) I think this all started when I picked up The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore as my micro history for Book Riot's #ReadHarder challenge and found out that it was terrible: the narrative was dragging, Lepore's choice of end-notes over footnotes became an endless page-flipping experiment, and her …