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Rated Mountainfit: Fjällsommar, Fjällsjälv 8/10
Sethi's book is a beautiful meditation on her travels to Sweden, where she assisted in the tracking of various species of birds. While I'm not much of a nature-book reader, nor do I particularly know anything about birds, I really enjoyed <i>Mountainfit</i>. Sethi's openhearted enthusiasm for what she learns and encounters is contagious, and the way she writes is closer to poetry than journalism. <br><br>Sethi wrote a guest post for my site about the Swedish coffee break called <i>fika</i>, and also gave a recipe for a cinnamon roll-esque recipe, <i>kanelbullar</i>. <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-post-by-meera-lee-sethi-fika-with.html">Check it out here.</a>
Rated Exhalation 8/10
Rated Warren the 13th and The All-Seeing Eye 8/10
This is a really good middle grade book that both myself AND my 9-yr-old son enjoyed a lot. (And the e-ARC I had didn't even have the finished illustrations yet.)
Full review at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-we-need-love-by-simon-van-booy.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.
(Fuller review forthcoming) Though I think I'm slightly aged out in terms of life-stages covered in this book, I still loved the silliness and puns. And of course I fully support drinking while cooking. It's the best, as long as you don't injure yourself.
Finished reading Platform Decay
Finished reading The Cloud Roads
Wants to read Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook
Rated NANO Fiction Volume 8 Number 1 10/10
Really good issue. I also enjoyed the entries about teaching flash fiction writing.
Reviewed How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
<a href="https://smus.com/books/how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-by-scott-adams">Full review on smus.com</a>
Finished reading System Collapse
Finished reading Radiant Star
Finished reading Interference
Rated Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology 8/10
<div>Like a lot of short story collections, there were some I liked better than others, but this was still a solid read. Some of the authors, I'd read and enjoyed before, and many here were new to me. I checked out from the library an audiobook by David Heska Wanbli Weiden right after I finished his short story. The editors didn't subtitle this "Dark Fiction" for nothing — many of the tales are grim, and there are a wide variety of horror subgenres represented here. Some are just dark tales. Worth a read. </div>
Reviewed Summary & Study Guide Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
<a href="https://smus.com/books/darkness-at-noon-by-arthur-koestler-audio">Full review on smus.com</a>
Finished reading Rogue Protocol
Wants to read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Rated Bernice Summerfield: New Frontiers 8/10
Review forthcoming.