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Books, 2024

All Systems Red by Martha Wells Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs When Fairies go Bad by Ursula Vernon (Z) The Map of Days by Ransom Riggs Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult Swimming with Bridgeport Girls by Anthony Tambakis The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly The Last by Hanna Jameson Epic Zero (2):  (Z) Geronimo Stiltson: Curse of the Cheese Pyramid by  (Z) The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman Thornhedge by T, Kingfisher (pen name of Ursula Vernon of Dragonbreath fame!) The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar St. Lucy's School for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Shrek by William Steig (Z) Danny Dragonbreath in The Frozen Menace by Ursula Vernon (Z) The Mauraders by Tom Cooper Hamster Princess: Of  Mice and Magic by Ursula Vernon (Z) Harriot Hamsterbone by Ursula Vernon (Z) Starter Villain by John Scalzi Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman Fiction Land by RR Haywood Sleep Donation: A Novella by Karen ...
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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah Maas

 "What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our greatest strenth.  And that the most unlikely person can alter the course of history." I am thinking that maybe this quote goes in the next IEP.
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Bones on Ice by Kathy Reichs

 "Slidell sounded as though I'd suggested the outlawing of soup." Hilarious line and horrible thought!  No, not soup!!
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Devil Bones by Kathy Reich

 "All papers stay militarily squared, all bulletin board Post-its aligned and equi-spaced.  I am incable of such tidiness and suspcious of those who are." Me, too.
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July, July by Tim O'Brien

" People took aspirin for their headaches.  People requested doggie bags at fancy restaurants.  Dow Chemical made a killing. From sea to sea, along country roads, in great sleeping cities, there were petty jealousies and grocery lists and erotic fantasies and upset stomachs.  The earth kept spinning." A reminder of how small individual crises are.  And despite what feels like our world has ended...the earth keeps spinning.
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We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

 A middle-aged woman will be there to provide further instruction.  If her son has passed away in the last year, leave immediately and backtrack your route to the last house of refuge.  Ensure the woman does NOT follow. Sound advise... even if I don't feel like I understood the book.
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Ill Will by Dan Chaon

 Our library asked each librarian to identify their 10 favorite books from the last 10 years - or maybe it was the last 25 years.  (I should have written this while it was happening, not 3 months later.  But I am trying to catch up with my blog and the quotes I have scribbled on scraps of paper about the house.)  One book identified on a couple folks lists was "Ill Will".  I believe it was hyped on the cover as one of the scariest books ever. Nah.  I am not a fan of family thrillers. You know, where dad is some sort of monster who keeps his wife hostage.  Ah, I think they call them psychological thrillers.  Not for me.  And yet, every once in a while, I try it again.   So, bottom line- this book would not make any list of mine- 10 year, 25 year or even 4 month best. Here, however, is a good line.  OK, FOUR. "Sometimes a dead bird is just a dead bird. I realized I had the choice.  I could give this moment a meaning, or I co...
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