Thursday
I finished the Connie Berry book, A DREAM OF DEATH. 3.5 stars.
I couldn't decide what to read next even though I have a list of "near-ish" TBR. So I'm trying out three. Currently reading GREEN RIDER by Kristen Britain. 1st of 8 in fantasy series. (library loan).
While running away from school after a fight that will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her uncertain future. As she trudges through the immense Green Cloak forest, her thoughts are interrupted by the clattering of hooves, as a galloping horse bursts from the woods. The rider is slumped over his mount's neck, impaled by two black-shafted arrows. As the young man lies dying on the road, he tells Karigan he is a Green Rider, one of the legendary messengers of the king of Sacoridia. Before he dies, he begs Karigan to deliver the “life and death” message he bears to King Zachary. When she reluctantly he agrees, he makes her swear on his sword to complete his mission, whispering with his dying breath, “Beware the shadow man...”Taking on the golden-winged horse brooch that is the symbol of the Green Riders, Karigan is swept into a world of deadly danger and complex magic, her life forever changed. Compelled by forces she cannot understand, Karigan is accompanied by the silent specter of the fallen messenger and hounded by dark beings bent on seeing that the message, and its reluctant carrier, never reach their destination.
Published 1998; 481 pages.
Also reading ROLE PLAYING by Cathy Yardley. Stand alone romance.
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal―he’ll be more social if she does the same―she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch. Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée. Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian. When they finally meet face to face―after a rocky, shocking start―the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own. Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?
Published 2023; 331 pages.
And then PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S SPY by Susan Elia MacNeal. 2nd of 10 in series featuring Maggie Hope, a typist turned spy for MI-5, in 1940s London.
As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in maths. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous—and deadly—than Maggie ever expected. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defence, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.
Published 2012; 409 pages.
So a little bit of everything. Next week I'll have the new Jacqueline Carey (fantasy) and hopefully the Nathan Lowell (sci fi).
Goal: 1000 pages
7/23: 327 pages
7/24: 97 pages
7/25: 105 pages
7/26: 148 pages
7/27:
7/28:
7/29:
Total Pages Read: 677 pages / 323 pages to go
I've got reading sprints again tonight. For next week, I don't know yet if I'll do sprints all three days, Tuesday through Thursday. I don't know if I'll do it every week; it IS a lot. But I'm doing it this way for this week because of the page number challenge and because it's early days on my channel and I'm trying to build it up while I'm learning the ropes.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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