Life and Things

Oh, blessed gods and goddesses, the stitches are out!! I heal really fast. They should have been removed much earlier, and were slightly infected. But now, all healed!! The deeper tissues still healing, and the areas are tender. Still…

I am officially a guinea pig. I started my clinical trial on the 14th, and began the medicine. I go back every month for the next three, to get weighed, measured, poked and prodded. Then only every three months. I feel pretty confident that I’m in one of the med groups instead of the placebo group. I don’t know for sure, and neither do my immediate interfaces.

Other than that, I’ve just been reading lots. I’m prone to dozing more, thanks to the lupus and NASH. I still struggle with accepting my limitations…

 

Updated Reviews

Keep in a Cold, Dark Place  https://wp.me/p6C2DX-wq

The Brightest Fell   https://wp.me/p6C2DX-TP

A Natural History of Dragons  https://wp.me/p6C2DX-8g

Red Winter https://wp.me/p6C2DX-j2

 

Books read, reviewed, and posted/scheduled this past week

(Yes, I went on a children’s book spree.)

The Rabbit and the Shadow by Melanie Rutten, 3*

The Road to Kalbakar by Paul E Horsman, 3*

Astronaut Annie by Suzanne Slade & Nicole Tadgell, 4*

Pirates of Brisa by Paul E Horsman, March 12, 4*

Phoenix Fire by SD Grimm, 4*

Abraham Lincoln’s Dueling Words by Donna Janell Bowman, illustrated by SD Schindler, 5*

Blacksmith’s Song by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk & Anna Rich, 5*

Don’t Ever Look Behind Door 32 by BCR Fegan/ illustrated by Lenny Wen, 5*

Hīznobyūtī by Claude Ponti/ translated by Alyson Waters, 5*

I am Vincent Van Gogh by Gabriel Martin Roig/ illustrated by Fatima Garcia, 5*

Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms by Robert Paul Weston & Misa Saburi, 5*

Simon and the Big, Bad, Angry Beasts by Ian De Haes, 5*

Spring into Action by Pat Brigandi, 5*

 

Favourite Read(s) of the Week

 

 

Current Read

 

 

Next Up (maybe)

TheBokkaners of the North by Paul E Horsman

Building a Trade Empire by Paul E Horsman

High Merchant by Paul E Horsman

The Emperor’s Seal by Amanda Roberts

Clowders by Vanessa Morgan

 

Book Haul

‘The world has changed.

Scientists warned it would happen.   

Meteors devastated the Earth. World Governments developed plans to help surviving citizens. The United States disbanded and salvageable land was divided into four quadrants—North, South, East, and West—governed by The Remnant Council.

Struggling to survive, seventeen-year-old Ava ends up in juvenile detention, until she is selected for a new life—with a catch. She must be injected with an experimental serum. The results will be life changing. The serum will make her better. To receive the serum Ava agrees to join a program controlled by ISAN, the International Sensory Assassin Network.

While on a mission, she is abducted by a rebel group led by Rhett and told that not only does she have a history with him, but her entire past is a lie perpetuated by ISAN to ensure her compliance. Unsure of who to trust, Ava must decide if her strangely familiar and handsome captor is her enemy or her savior—and time is running out.’

 

‘From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.

On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.

Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.’