Spren of Kindness

I read all of Set The Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes today.  It's not the end-all be-all, but I really like her work.

Next is a book called The Wolf Den.

Not sure if it counts as 'ridiculous', but I just found out yesterday that the way I would put 'The Battle' from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe soundtrack on loop for an hour was not a universal experience!  Most people do not loop songs for hours, I guess.

I read Good Morning, Midnight, which was good, but left me with a few unanswered questions.  Next is Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri.

I'm working my way through some of Andrea Bocelli's discography, and really enjoying it.  The best way to describe it is it feels like there's a hole in my chest, but in like.  A good way.

Probably gravitation.

Do you put stickers on your computer?

Nope!  I feel like I'd have to skim enough looking for where those POVs are to render the point moot.

TPBM embroiders.

Just finished Savage Legion, and while I did not feel like it was the length that it was, I don't think I'm going to contine.

Currently I'm reading The Empire's Ghost by Isabelle Steiger and while it seems to be a slow start, I'm tentatively saying I like it.  After that, I'm gonna try the Horatio Hornblower series.

I don't think I have.

TPBM keeps an eye out for good furniture.

Lonely Castle In The Mirror turned out to be quite good.  I did cotton on to the twist fairly early, but it didn't ruin it for me.

Tress was delightful, Frugal Wizard as well.  

I found the first three Shannara books in one binding, so I figure I might as well give that a go next.

Nope.  

TPBM has animal-shaped erasers.

Yes.  This is the first year since I was ten that they've been visible on my face, though.

What's your favorite flower?

Typewriter keys.  'Twould be in character.

Are you a summer or winter person?

I have, I cried.  

TPBM owns a cactus.

I am attempting to watch Padmaavat, but as I don't speak Hindi and there are no subtitles, this is gonna be slow going.

I have, I read almost all of the Foundation series.

TPBM went swimming today.

There's lots of places I'd like to visit, but there's this one specific part of Indiana that I really like that I think would be nice, if I ever decide I need less rain and more thunderstorms.

Curious to see what you think of Shards of Earth.  I read that a few months back.  It was very interesting.  Have you read any other books by the author?

Don't think so?  Maybe I know the choruses of three, but not the whole thing.

TPBM has a sunburn.

Even later, but I finally got to read this, and while I'm glad I didn't spend money I couldn't afford to lose, I almost wish I had bought the book, because this was absolutely delightful!  I really got the fairy-tale feeling, and it was just down-right cozy.

No thoughts, just Brian Tyler's Formula One theme.  I know nothing about music theory, but the way the chords in parts of this piece rise into the following chord gets me.

Working on The Blighted Stars, which is, among many things, large, easily digestible, and also maybe I should have guessed at this (Series title, The Devoured Worlds), but significantly creepier than I expected.  This being the SoK scale, it is rather cockeyed at a strange angle relative to the norm.  Not offputting, but unexpected.

Next up: Lonely Castle In The Mirror, a novel translated from Japanese that I have high hopes for, and Spine Of The Dragon, which will either be quite good, or will quickly lose me.

But after that, it's finally time for my Brando Sando double feature of Tress and Frugal Wizard, as both are finally ready!

I recently tried The Lost Fleet again (found book one in a Half-Price Books for $1.99, couldn't pass that up) and I'm liking it a surprising amount.  I know that later books get bigger, since I accidentally started with one of those, but these early ones are great for being light reading that I don't have to work too hard at, which makes them a great break.

I also got a copy of The Illiad, and really enjoyed it!  I would have liked a poetry translation, but prose was available, so I read it.

I'm trying to get my hands on The Eagle Of The Ninth, but it's looking like that might be harder than I anticipated.

I'm still working through the Yearbook Album from Sleeping at Last, but I keep going back to Mars from his Planets album, and this song is so darned good.  'Our questions ricochet/ like broken satellites/ how our bodies, born to heal/ become so prone to die'?  Flays me.  And that's just one of the lines, I could probably say something about every one of the lyrics to this song.

I just read The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi, and it was good, I think.  I was a little skeptical because in general I'm not a fan of the Fifties in literature, but it turned out to not matter.  Maybe I don't like the American fifties.

I went to a Half Price Books and got a copy of Cinder by Marissa Meyer, so I'll be rereading that.

I found out a couple months back that Saturn by Sleeping at Last is a Really Great Song, and tonight I went and listened to Astronomy, Vol. 1, by the same artist.  And it was fantastic!  I will admit, I'm horrendously confused by the organization of the discography, but I will definitely be listening to more from this artist.