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Not so much a blog; just lots of books

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The Grace Year
Kim Liggett
The New Voices of Science Fiction
Jamie Wahls, Sarah Pinkser, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rebecca Roanhorse, S. Qiouyi Lu, Darcie Little Badger, Kelly Robson, Nino Cipri, Amal El-Mohtar, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Alice Sola Kim, Suzanne Palmer, Alexander Weinstein, Rich Larson
Progress: 13%
Engineering Animals: How Life Works
Alan Mcfadzean, Mark Denny
Progress: 125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Nicholas P. Money
Conservation of Shadows
Yoon Ha Lee
Progress: 22%
Le premier jour
Marc Levy
Progress: 180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter, Chris Schluep
Progress: 99/480pages
The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Progress: 68/501pages

Meh.

The Witch's Grave - Shirley Damsgaard

A psychic librarian cozy mystery sounded like it could be promising, but it was mostly just meh.  Starting in the middle of the series may not have helped, but series like this can settle out after a few books so that later books can be better, so I figured it was worth a shot.  I don't remember how this book came to my attention; it might have turned up accidentally in a library catalogue search. I probably take too many chances with books from the library.

 

Anyway, what ended up happening was a lot of amateurish questioning and running around with very little librarianing.  Plus Ophelia kept being worried that this sheriff/cop was going to arrest her on very flimsy pretexts because that's what he kept threatening to do.  Also, the use of magick (yes, spelled with a 'k') as opposed to magic struck me as gimmecky.  I guess it was the new age psychic thing but still.  I should probably just steer clear of anything that mentions the word psychic and stick to the relative safety of urban fantasy.