The book "Natural Watercolor Paint Making: Create beautiful payments at home using botanicals, vegetables and other foraged materials" aka anything to avoid actually painting
Book 21: look, I like a good fantasy as well as the next girl but I expect some degree of plausibility in the text. Plus these plants are mostly non-native. At least she didn't suggest growing woad or I'd probably have to write a letter to the editor. #bookaweek #booksky #watercolors
Book 20: a bit of a gap. I really love this kind of very accessible science book. Perhaps because learning is such a pleasure? This has a lot of information I didn't know, and is very balanced in it's perspective. #bookaweek #booksky "Frostbite" by Nicola Twilley
The book Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher in front of dark windows, a castle, flowers and a red cushion
Book 19: yes, it was a two horror novel night. I resonated with the watercolorist, and itched the entire second half of the book. I'm still not sure what the possum was attempting. #bookaweek #horror #etymology @tkingfisher.com
A red covered book with a black image of a skeletal medieval knight "Between Two Fires". Two sleeping cats are behind it on a fluffy blanket.
Book 18: at least I think. This one took me much longer than usual because reading it before bed was asking for nightmares. But it has the right flavor for a brutal age, where death was at every corner and comfort today vied with honor forever. #bookaweek #betweentwofires #booksky
Book 17: Gardenista. I got this as a birthday gift in September, and have leafed through it a bit at a time through the long dark. I do not have this kind of garden and do not actually respect the clear outsourcing all that much (so much astroturf) but it was fun to see what people do. #bookaweek
The book "Can't Spell Treason Without Tea" by Rebecca Thorne
Book 16: "Can't Spell Treason Without Tea". My husband is in disbelief that there is more than one book about Player Characters giving up adventure to start a bookstore. This one was well written and fun. #bookaweek #tomesandtea
The rapids on the Futaleafu called "Zeda" for their z shape
A far distant yellow yard, unmanned, in white water
Book 15: A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick McManus, one of the great gems of American literature and almost infinite reread. After portaging around a class v+ rapid, I needed to read "Shooting the Chick-a-nout Narrows" to the assembled. app.thestorygraph.com/books/aca207... #bookaweek #patagonia
Book 14: The Wager. This joins "We Die Alone" in the thesis that humans are both very easy and nearly impossible to kill. It makes you glad for your bread and water! app.thestorygraph.com/books/4e2161... #bookaweek
The book "The Correspondent" in front of a cozy fire
Book 13: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. I've always had a very soft spot for epistolary novels. This one is unusual in the breath of connections - it's so often only been two people. I wasn't sold on the first half, but it has a good arc. #bookaweek
The book "One Billion Years to the End of the World" by Arkady and Boris Stugatsky
Book 12: One Billion Years to the End of the World. This is my eldest son's favorite book - he has a tattoo of the cover. So I figured I should read it at some point. He says he's so awesome that obviously his tribulations are great the homeostatic universe keeping him down. #bookaweek
The book "Rules For Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore next to an orange candle
Book 11: "Rules for Ghosting" in paperback. I'm not queer, psychic, trans or Jewish. But this story of a person who is trying to be their best self helps me see through another's eyes - what fiction is best at. #bookaweek @shellyjayshore.bsky.social
Book 10: The Ghost Brigades by @scalzi.com . Audiobook. I'm pretty sure this is a reread, but not positive because I clearly remembered none of it. I liked how the POV character is missing self knowledge the reader has. I prefer my doom fictional. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/dc1e32...
The book "Nine Goblins" by T Kingfisher in front of a fire. There's a kitten cavorting in the back.
Book 9: I first read 9 Goblins when @tkingfisher.com posted about it on Livejournal, in a more civilized era. When I picked up this reprint at @thebookoasis.bsky.social , they said it was so popular there was a limit on how many bookstores could order. #bookaweek #booksky
The book "Butcher of the Forest" by Premee Mohamed in front of an unlit fire
Book 8: a creepy and atmospheric story about living under an indifferent evil that will never notice squashing you .. but that also needs you. A reminder that evil may love someone innocent and not culpable. #bookaweek @premeemohamed.com
The book Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher set against a hill covered in saguaro
Book 7: Re-read. Did I just read Snake-Eater in like November? Maybe. Was it imperative to reread it in the place it was set? Absolutely. @tkingfisher.com #bookaweek
Book 6: the cold is settling back hard on New England, and it's good to sit in front of a window and read. I appreciated the divergence from form in this one, while retaining the cozy. @travisbaldree.bsky.social #bookaweek
The book Piranesi before the fire, as the plows scrape behind the reader
Book 5: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. My husband and eldest son read this first and convinced me to read it. It was surreal and lyrical and lovely and slightly confusing in the way of modern literature. But I'm glad to have read it. #bookaweek
Book 4: Magpie Murders. What does it say when I'm more enthralled with the book within the book than the book? Still, I admire and enjoy good writing, which this is. Digital ebook from Libby. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/679711...
The book Enshittification against a red pillow. It has a poop emoji on the cover.
Book 3: I've been working my way through Enshittification for like a month now. I rarely want to read about infuriating and work related things in my free time - although it's weird reading a chapter about things i lived through. This is a really good and important and depressing read. #bookaweek
A red hardcover book in front of a fire
Book 2: Marble Hall Mysteries. This is a delightful whodunnit with multiple layers of metacognition. It's the first of @anthonyhorowitz.com 's books I've read and it's the kind where I'm immediately going to circle back and start from the beginning of the works. Like right now. #bookaweek
A cat nuzzling a book
An old orange book by PG Wodehouse called Very Good Jeeves
Book 1: Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit, snuck in before Epiphany from an old hardcover. I had a helper with this one. #bookaweek #wodehouse #jeeves
A stack of books
#bookaweek when I started this last year, I didn't quite understand Bluesky. This year, I'll track my goal of averaging at least a book a week in a thread! I recorded 64 books last year but somehow 79 on Storygraph which I started the same time. Join me! app.thestorygraph.com/profile/fair...
Book 63: How to Survive Camping: the man with no shadow. Look, I accept some risks as part of my outdoor adventures, but if a campsite had a body count like this, I'd go to the National Forest one instead. Not enough camping talk, but otherwise a cozy horror! #bookaweek #cozyhorror
Cats by a tree and a fire with stockings
Book 62: A Christmas Carol. I've never read the original, but in contrast to other Dickens tomes it's a quick read. I forget how clever and both kind and cutting his writing is. #bookaweek
Book 64: I discovered a @tkingfisher.com book I didn't own and hadn't read and remedied the situation. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/4b926b...
Book 63: I was in the mood for a cozy fantasy. This book was that, but I prefer a little more depth to my fluff. I wanted The Blue Sword, but that I hadn't read 23 times. This one is pretty darn fluffy. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/3cdc67...
A book, with a candle and a teenager blurry in the background
Book ?: For a liberal arts major, I'm somehow deeply interested in geology. This was an excellent story. #bookaweek #geology #ifrockscouldtalk
The book "Uprooted" before the fire
Book 61: I needed a mental and emotional rest and this book was beautiful, eloquent and had a truth to it. Just what I needed. app.thestorygraph.com/books/726593... #bookaweek
Book 60: digital book in front of the fire. I deeply love Bujold. The last few years of her writing feel like someone tidying the worlds of her creation and indulging in favorites before her next adventure. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/22f5d3...
Book 59: the idea of living in a little house in the desert with a dog and a garden that could keep you is enough to go on. How is @tkingfisher.com releasing half a dozen books this year, all with distinct plots and characters? #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/f3211e...
