{"id":937,"date":"2022-04-03T22:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:05:42","slug":"reading-log-jan-mar-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Reading Log &#8211; Jan-Mar 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It hasn&#8217;t been a stellar reading quarter, mostly due to health issues (headaches &amp; the depressy-stressy disorder make reading tricky), but I&#8217;ve definitely found some new faves. Arkady Martine has written a beautiful Sci-Fi duology (with more books to come?!?! we can only hope) about politics, colonisation, and technology set in space with sapphic heroines. Honestly, it&#8217;s like she wrote these books just for me. The first book is called <em>A Memory Called Empire<\/em>, which is just an excellent &amp; haunting title. And I finally picked up the first book in Seth Dickinson&#8217;s SF trilogy, <em>The Traitor Baru Cormorant<\/em>, and it also is exactly all the things I love in a book. I would die for Baru. The third SF book that blew my mind was Kate Elliot&#8217;s <em>Unconquerable Sun<\/em>, a gender-bent Alexander the Great retelling where his horse Bucephalus is a star ship. Five stars, will read again, cannot wait for the sequel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve also learned a couple of things about my reading preferences: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I hate short chapters with a passion because I read fast, and like to pause at the end of the chapter to really ruminate on the happenings; and if it&#8217;s short, I&#8217;m stopping way too often. <\/li><li>The only Romance sub-genre that I like is, oddly, Contemporary Rom-Com. Historical bores me, Paranormal\/Sci-Fi\/Fantasy annoys me, Suspense makes me straight up hate the romance aspect, and YA is not adult. Erotic is fine, but I don&#8217;t want to seek it out. A Romance novel has to have a Happily-Ever-After or Happily-For-Now ending, and honestly I like real angst &amp; tragedy in my stories way too much. But Rom-Coms&#8230; they feel like they&#8217;ve earned that ending.<\/li><li>I can read 150-200 pages an hour. No wonder I churn through books. And my mother tells me I could read before I was 2 years old, so I&#8217;ve been doing it for&#8230; a long time.<\/li><li>I like owning print books but I prefer reading eBooks, because they&#8217;re so much more accessible when I&#8217;m ill. Mum gave me a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday last year, and it is getting A LOT of use!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley<br>Pestilence by Laura Thalassa<br>A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske<br>Beach Read by Emily Henry<br>Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade<br>All the Feels by Olivia Dade<br>The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James<br>Seven Devils by Laura Lam &amp; Elizabeth May<br>We hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal<br>All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody &amp; Christine Lynn Herman<br>Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir<br>Crier\u2019s War by Nina Varela<br>Iron Heart by Nina Varela<br>A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson<br>A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">February<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine<br>Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik<br>The Wicked King by Holly Black<br>The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black<br>The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson<br>Orc-Ward Encounters by Sam Hall<br>House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas<br>Electric Idol by Katee Robert<br>The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley<br>Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">March<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes<br>Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston<br>A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins<br>The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern<br>Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot<br>The Kindred by Alechia Dow<br>A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth<br>The Professional by Kresley Cole<br>The Master by Kresley Cole<br>The Player by Kresley Cole<br>Legends &amp; Lattes by Travis Baldree<br>River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey<br>Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott<br>Knot My Type by Evie Mitchell<br>The Exiled Fleet by J.S. Dewes<br>Delilah Green Doesn\u2019t Care by Ashley Herring Blake<br>Jade City by Fonda Lee<br>1979 by Val McDermid<br>Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">44 in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t been a stellar reading quarter, mostly due to health issues (headaches &amp; the depressy-stressy disorder make reading tricky), but I&#8217;ve definitely found some new faves. Arkady Martine has written a beautiful Sci-Fi duology (with more books to come?!?! we can only hope) about politics, colonisation, and technology set in space with sapphic heroines. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading Log &#8211; Jan-Mar 2022&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[76,7,5],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-76","tag-books","tag-reading-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}