Hello, yes I know I’ve missed a reading roundup – my apologies for that. I’ve had a lot of shifts at work and was working some crazy hours over the last few weeks. Also I had a virus which left me rather run down. Also, there were some great season finale TV shows on – Game of Thrones and Outlander – which I really wanted to watch. Also LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens won’t play itself. Anyway, enough excuses. Right now I’m in a kind of reading slump. I have many, many books in my TBR, but none of them are taking my fancy. Don’t you just hate that? I have hopes that Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch may help ease me out of that slump. Since my last roundup, I have managed to finish a few books, and consign one to my Did Not Finish pile. Sorry The Crown’s Game, you just didn’t grab my interest fast enough. The books I completed were Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine, for which you should have seen a full review go up earlier this week, Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige, one of the ARCs I received at BEA 2016 and…
Good morning. This week I’ve been really unfocussed in my reading. I’ve dipped into several books, but not finished that many of them. It’s been a crazy busy week for me at work, which hasn’t helped. OK I admit it. Any free time I’ve had I’ve spent playing Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens rather than reading. Those games are addictive. One book I did finish and enjoyed was His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. This is the first in the Temeraire series in which the Napoleonic Wars are reimagined with dragons. I loved the concept, characters and themes. I especially enjoyed the relationship between Laurence and Temeraire, the dragon. The ninth and final book in the series, League of Dragons, has just been published. Much as I enjoyed the series, I’m not certain I want to invest the time to read the rest of the eight, so I cheated and read Tor.com’s Temeraire reread. I’m hoping this will catch me up sufficiently and I will pick up League of Dragons in audiobook format – narrator is Simon Vance, how could I not go for the audiobook? – as soon as I have a spare Audible credit. I gave His…