Book reviews, novel progress, and other writing related musings.
I missed wrapping up 2022 before the year’s end, but at least I’m getting to it before January is through (and not in March like I did for 2021). Old Goals The goals I set for 2022’s Q3 were: If you want to skip to my goals for 2023 Q1, scroll down to the New…
Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses
When children have a pecking order, laughter can change a life.
Michael J. Sullivan’s Nolyn (The Rise and Fall #1)
Long ago, a war was fought between the Humans and Fhrey – elves who ruled the land like gods. Generations have passed, and the details of that war have begun to muddle in the retellings, but forgotten things have a habit of coming back around.
S. D. Smith’s The Green Ember (The Green Ember #1)
Young rabbits, Heather and Picket, were raised in the peaceful fields of Nick Hollow, but their parents can only delay the inevitable.
Sarah Rose’s For all the Tea in China
China controlled the tea and Britain controlled the opium, but everything changes with time and planning.
I chose to do Quarterly Recaps rather than Monthly Recaps, and I still missed one! Old Goals The goals I set for the first Quarter of 2022 were: Blog email – set up email host (on the goals list until I actually do it) Blog Pictures – get book cover pictures on all Book Review…
Apparently this post got lost in the nether – I thought it was posted back in December! – so I’m just putting it up as is. I’ll definitely be posting these recaps quarterly now, I keep getting to them late and then feeling bad about it (and apparently losing some of them). So here’s the…
Karen Inglis’s The Secret Lake
Discovering a rowboat’s buried hull in a garden, two siblings embark on an adventure they still hardly believe.
Lee James’s Azriel (Watchmen Saga #1)
Bree was a bodyguard to the king, now, haunted by a rash promise, she keeps her own company.
Junju Ito’s Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
A dog person suddenly living with two cats – what could possibly go wrong?