79:100 Sloth Wisdom compiled by Talia Levy

A cute little book of quotes on learning how to take it easy and chillax more. You know, channel your inner sloth. 


Page count: 96p/14,136p ytd/306,152p lifetime

78:100 Witches Wild by Yasmine Galenorn

Maddie, Sandy, and Fata Morgana roamed the countryside for decades indulging their whims and destroying vampires.  Then the inevitable falling out and Fata returning to the arms of the ocean.  Now Fata has returned to join up with Maddie and Sandy again with warnings from the waves but her moods shift like the tides and her moods are ever changing as the sea. Maddie and Sandy must learn how to sail them again if they hope to survive not just the latest threat that Fata brings warnings of but Fata herself.

Really enjoying this series and I liked the focus on this one, less on the big bad they need to deal with and more on the conflicted feelings of Fata. 


Page count: 342p/14,040p ytd/306,056p lifetime

77:100 Big Kahuna Plays for His Soul by Stefon Mears

Akela "Big Kahuna" Kapule is a pool wizard who protects the pool halls around Portland, Oregon.  He can see the future in the chalk dust on his cue and it has told him that he is needed in the one of the worst pool halls around tonight and that his soul is in jeopardy.

A tale of demons and wizards battling it out on the pool table.  What could be more fun!


Page count: 23p/13,698p ytd/305,714p lifetime

76:100 The Most Important Sound in Space by Stefon Mears

A long mission in space but still a normal walk outside the craft to do some basic maintenance.  They always told Blaine he was a bit off for constantly listening to the sound of his own breathing but hearing the air flowing always brought him a lot of comfort.  Now though, it may be the only thing that helps keep him alive when things go off the rails.

Short tale, fun read.


Page count: 23p/13,675p ytd/305,691p lifetime

75:100 Siren's Song by Yasmine Galenorn

The third book in the Bewitching Bedlam series.  Sandy, Maddie's best friend, is almost run down at the grocery store. And by almost run down, I mean they tried to hit her with the car several times.  Definitely no accident.  Then her new restaurant is torched just before it opens.  Now she is in a coma and her dreams are coming to life and considering the kind of life she has led and how long it is, there are things of nightmare in her mind that the town is not prepared to try and deal with.  Sandy's boyfriend, the weretiger Max, is beside himself and together with Maddie and Aegis, they are tearing the town apart trying to discover who is attacking her and stop them no matter the cost.

I'm really enjoying this series and the characters and I hope to see much more of them.


Page count: 338p/13,652p ytd/305,668p lifetime

74:100 The Ambitious Ocean by Seanan McGuire

Patrick is upset that Countess Winterrose would interfere and lie to him about Dianda so he goes to confront her on it but the Patrick that comes out after that meeting is not the same one that went in.  He is now cold and callous to those he once treated as friends, the pixies are shooed away and Daffodil actually struck, is dismissive of Carmichael, and now plans to kill Dianda for daring to try and ensnare him. 

And then Dianda and Sylvester figure out that something is very wrong and wrestle him into the sea where the ocean dissolves the spell that the Countess placed on him to make him into her idea of what a Doane Sidhe should behave like.  Thank goodness for that.  Now if he can just keep Dianda from going after the Countess herself...

Love reading about Patrick and Dianda and so glad I know how it will end up before getting stories like these.  LOL


Page count: 20p/13,314p ytd/305,330p lifetime

73:100 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

This is a story of Francie who grew up among the working poor in Brooklyn at the turn of the 19th century.  Frequently hungry, with little heat, and patched clothes, we watch Francie come of age with her brother Neely, and later a little sister as well.  Struggling to get an education, moving as they lose another place due to lack of funds, collecting pennies to have something to eat, Francie still wants to make something of herself, to find a way out, to read every book in the library.  Life is hard and it's not fair but she learns from her mother that you still just keep going.  And she does, even when it's not easy, even when her father dies, even when her mother sends her to work so her brother can keep getting his education.  She just keeps putting one foot in front of the other with a good heart and a good head.

A soft, quiet book that just lays it out how this family lived at that time, in that place. Beautifully descriptive, it's easy to just fall into it and then have to come back out into your own reality after having been so deep into their's.  I do understand why it's a classic and so many people read and reread it. 


Page count: 493p/13,294p ytd/305,310p lifetime