My TBR shelf has grown again. It’s both an exciting thing to see and an upsetting thing, all at the same time. Exciting because there are so many good books on that shelf – I can’t wait to dive in! And yet it’s upsetting because I simply don’t have the time it will take to read all of those wonderful yummy books. Life just gets in the way, you know? And they just keep publishing more books!
I’m in the middle of our Book Club book right now, Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. It’s the first in a series of maybe 6 or 9 books (depending on how far you want to go with it). I’ve read them all before, but that was a long time ago, and I am enjoying getting reacquainted with them all. But do I go on? Do I not? I don’t know yet. I have next month’s book to read, too, however. Stinger by Robert McCammon. Not sure how I feel about this one yet.
Our annual Book Exchange (borrowed from the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð or Jolobokoflod) was a great success again. My niece Laurel drew my name this year, and gave me The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. She actually went to my Goodreads account and looked at all the books I’d marked as Want To Read. Pretty clever of her, I thought. Then my niece Katy got A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen for me, technically for Christmas but she borrowed the Book Exchange format and paired the book with some Chocolates from Trader Joe’s.
My partner gave me two books for Christmas this year, books 1 and 2 of a series I had been eyeballing. Leave No Trace and Cold Burn by A.J.Landau are both thrillers set in National Parks, the first one featuring the Statue of Liberty and the second one set in Glacier Bay National Park. Both should be very exciting books, I think.
In preparation for my trip to study Sharks in September, I ordered three books that will get me more familiar with our featured creature. All three of them look really good (Emperors of the Deep by William McKeever, The Secret History of Sharks by John Long, and Sharks Don’t Sink by Jasmin Graham) but I think the Sharks Don’t Sink one will be most helpful. I’ll let you know when I return from the expedition!
And, while I’m ordering myself some books, I of course have to get a few “just because” books. I mean, who could turn down Beasts of the Sea by Lida Turpeinen or Maiden, Mother, Crone by Joanne Harris or I, Medusa by Ayana Gray? Not me, that’s for sure.
Last, but most certainly not least, his mother gifted me with a few of her favorite books from the past. The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas and The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley will be some heavy reading, requiring my full attention. But I do believe the results will be well worth the effort – both of them look to be very interesting and thought provoking.
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