Booooooks

Guess what, I'm way behind again!

#59. The Language of Power by Rosemary Kirstein. 5. Another brilliant Steerswoman book, which is immensely frustrating because it hints at what's left in the series but there's no reason to think the rest of the series will be available anytime soon.

#60. Thrawn by Timothy Zahn. 4. Total retcon for our favorite blue skinned Imperial Admiral, this time to fit in with the Star Wars Rebels timeline. Also, making him weirdly the straight-up good guy for the moment. Delightful.

#61. The Duchess War by Courtney Milan. 5. Re-read of one of my favorite romances of all time.

#62. Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn. 3.5. Is Anakin whiny and is Thrawn way cooler? Yes and yes!

#63. Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family by Joseph Frazier Wall. 4. A really impressive biographer is one who can glue you to the page with an absolute doorstop of a book about a guy you don't care about in the slightest. A ridonkulous soap opera of a family, with this book focusing on one particular scion of the blow-it-up gang who was particularly ridiculous. Weirdly fascinating.

#64. The Season by Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer. 4. Pride and Prejudice only with a soccer-obsessed reluctant Texas debutante. Reasonably predictable, but charming.

That's...some of them. I'm actually up to 82. Maybe I'll eventually catch up.

More books

#65. A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm by Robert Pringle. 3. There are surprisingly few histories of Bali available. This one is not always easy to follow (and we learn more about some white artist's dinner guests than we do about most of the significant kings) and contains much foreshadowing that expects the reader to know too much. But I get the impression there are relatively few native primary sources to work from. Better than nothing.

#66. The Lodestar of Ys by Amy Rae Durreson. 4. Very elaborate fantasy world building that's mostly not necessary for this adorably sweet m/m forced marriage romance. (I kinda love the 'we have to get married for REASONS, fall in love later' trope.)

#67. Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn. 4.5. Crammed into a week and a half unaccounted for by Rebels, manages far more entertaining character development than the previous book. Love the adventures of Eli and Krennic's flunky.

#68. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman. 5. Gorgeous and haunting portrait of two families brought together by tragedy, over successive summers in Maine.

#69. Emyr's Smile by Amy Rae Durreson. 3.5. Slight but sweet romance prequel to Lodestar of Ys. Vaguely annoying lead, but cute enough.