Open Thread for Readers for January 2021
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Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?
(early) Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa and (late) Happy Hanukkah to everyone.
What books are people anticipating buying with gift moolah?
James Cox has a 3-book series of M/M/F books set in “Otherworld.” Calling All Villains is first, and that’s the book I won at a review blog. I read it in 2 nights. Then I immediately downloaded Calling All Heroes, and Beneath the Broken. I read the second book in one sitting, telling myself for hours, “I’ll just read one more chapter then go to bed.” I was cranky all the next day. So I’m saving the 3rd one for when I have some free time. I’m reviewing for a site now, and have to read/review a certain number of books per month. But I get some advertising for my books also, so it’s all good.
I read my first Heyer books this summer (I know, I know) and loved them so I’m going to use Christmas money to start a paperback collection. I read them from the library and want to get my sister to try them so I need copies I can lend. Plus, I generally like to have paper copies of books I really like.
There’s also a random fantasy novel I’ve had on my wish list, The Black Wolves of Boston by Wen Spencer, that I’m finally going to buy. There’ll be more for sure. I’ll probably scroll through my wish list and see if there’s anything I’ve been waiting to go on sale for a while.
@MaryK: Which Heyer did you read, Mary K?
I am looking forward to Kristen Cashore’s book Winterkeep with bated breath. It’s the first book in her Graceling Realm series to come out since Bitterblue In 2012 and I am so here for Bitterblue and Giddon. I couldn’t get an ARC so I preordered it even though the ebook is $11 and we are trying to economize right now. I hope it’s worth the 9-year wait.
I’m working on putting together a list of my best books of 2020. It won’t be up until early January because I want to squeeze in one or two more books and see if I like them enough to put them on the list. Right now my list is very short.
@Janine: I looked over a bunch of reviews and then read Venetia, Frederica, The Unknown Ajax, Cotillion, and The Quiet Gentleman. I really liked all of them but my favorites and the ones I’m planning to buy are TUA and TQG. Next up, I’m planning to read The Toll Gate. I’m trying to space them out so I don’t burn through them and so any writing ticks don’t become glaring.
Oh, I also read the first two in her detective series and enjoyed them but not as much as the others.
I usually space out authors (and sometimes genres) for the same reason and also so that I don’t get bored.