Pandemic Booklist for H.

The Serpent's Secret Giveaway

So. I have (double) pneumonia and a headache, and a ton of school related deadlines coming up, and am feeling, in general, pretty ick. So, for this week's (belated) giveaway, I picked a comfort read. I had the privilege of meeting Sayantani DasGupta last year at a conference, and she's a lovely and brilliant human being. I really enjoyed talking to her about folklore and the ways that our stories unite us. I love fantasy based in folklore of various cultures, and I love brave girls, and this book has both. Instead of trying to type more about how awesome this book is, I'm just going to pop in an overview I wrote from the protagonist's point of view for a class last semester. Ahem. A lot of parents tell their little girls that they're princesses. Except, it turns out that when my parents said "Kiranmala, you're a princess!", they were being literal. And not just any princess, oh no! A princess of ANOTHER DIMENSION. Which is information ...

Some books I love. I really, really love books. I always have-- my earliest memories involve being read to, and once I learned how, I read basically non-stop until I became an adult. I took an extended break in early adulthood-- whatwith college, marriage, a few international moves, and a bunch of gestating. One of my favorite things about being a parent has been reading with my kids, discovering new books together and watching them learn to read (and love to read) themselves. And a couple of years ago, everyone got sturdier and more self-sufficient (and potty trained) and I started reading voraciously again. I have been kicking around the idea of starting a blog about books for two years now. Between my indecisiveness about form and focus, my easy distractibility, full time graduate studies, and wrangling my four kids-- excepting one pretty spectacular false start-- I haven't committed. There are already one million blogs devoted to books. I'm a passable reviewer ...

Pandemic Booklist for Jessica.

I met Jessica in college because we had some mutual friends, but we didn't really know each other. We reconnected several years later when we argued in the comment section of a blog, and then AGAIN a few years later when we started chatting on Facebook. Third time's a charm, I guess, because she's one of my best friends now. Jessica and I have fairy disparate reading preferences, so it's a challenge to make a list for her-- she still pooh-poos my love of romance novels and she loves suspense (which makes me hide under my blankets) but I keep chipping away anyway. These books are listed approximately in order from least-angsty to most. She wanted well done lit with lower intensity than her normal reads. Here is my attempt. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399180996 https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316556347 https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101971062 Soulless is just plain fun. It's a comedy of manners with werewolves and airships. Band Sinis...

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