Running late today…no interesting story behind it (which is good and bad), just a thing that happened. But I do have a few things to share for whenever you see this post.
Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
The Loss of Things I Took for Granted: Ten years into my college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively.—this is disturbing
Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audiobooks?
20 Modern Whodunits to Read if You Love Golden Age Mysteries —this is a pretty good listicle from The Real Book Spy
Coming to Terms With “Cozy” Fiction: Categories and genres are weird things. Sometimes they make perfect sense; sometimes they feel like mental sandpaper.
Why is there an obsession with rehabilitating villains??—while I wouldn’t want to argue against rehabilitating anyone in real life, I think the Orangutaton Librarian hits on something here when it comes to fiction.
The Various Things Ratings Can Mean—Peat Long drops some wisdom
Books with Relationships for People who Don’t Love Love: 2024 Edition—the atypical Valentine’s Day list is back with some good recommendations.
To help talk about backlist titles (and just for fun), What Was I Talking About 10 Years Ago Week?
Dirty Magic by Jaye Wells
Hide by Lisa Gardner
And I mentioned the release of Grimm: The Chopping Block by John Passarella—the Grimm tie-in novel that I never got around to tracking down.
This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown—a strange world of magic, time travel, and books. I quite enjoyed it.
The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond—magically-enhanced con artists? Count me in.
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar—this is one of those books that I’m not going to pretend to be able to describe in a sentence without reading, but it looks promising.
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Thank you for including my little list!
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