No time for an intro or anything, let’s just drive This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words—and shown to me by Aurore-Anne-Chehoke at Diary-of-a-black-city-girl. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Seems easy enough, right? Let’s take a peek at this week’s answers: What are you currently reading? I’m still reading (and making oddly slow progress in) Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and the short story collection, Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green ..read more

Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers’ Guide to Everyday Life by Matthew Qvortrup DETAILS: Publisher: Duckworth Books Publication Date: October 5, 2023 Format: eARC Length: 224 pg. Read Date: March 21-29, 2024 What’s Great Minds on Small Things About? In 1764, Voltaire published Dictionnaire philosophique. In 1957, Roland Barthes published Mythologies. In 1987, Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary was published by W. V. Quine. Taking a little something from all of these (and others), in 2023, Matthew Qvortrup brought us Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers ..read more

Time-Marked Warlock by Shami Stovall DETAILS: Series: Adair Finch, #1 Publication Date: June 2024 (or August, depending who you ask) Format: e-ARC Length: 402 pg. Read Date: April 15-16, 2024 What’s Time-Marked Warlock About? Until a few years ago, the names of warlocks Adair and Carter Finch were famous among the magic community. Private eyes who helped law enforcement as well as private clients dealing with cases large and small—they were pretty close to superheroes. Then they took that one job that put them against an opponent they weren’t ready for, things went wrong, and Carter died ..read more

This morning, I’m very pleased to welcome The Write Reads Blog Tour for Shami Stovall’s Time-Marked Warlock. In addition to this Spotlight, my post about the book will be coming along soon. Today is the beginning of the Tour, so check out https://twitter.com/WriteReadsTours over the next week and change to see other people saying (probably) great things about the book. But for now, let’s learn a little bit about the book, shall we? Book Details: Title: Time-Marked Warlock by Shami Stovall Genre: Urban Fantasy Release date: June 2024 Length: 402 pages About the Book: Adair Finch is the most p ..read more

It’s done. It’s not good—or what I wanted it to be—but it’s done. Finally. Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World by Nadya Williams DETAILS: Publisher: Zondervan Academic Publication Date: November 14, 2023 Format: Paperback Length: 207 pg. Read Date: January 7-14, 2024 What’s Cultural Christians in the Early Church About? First, let’s define “Cultural Christian”—for Williams, they’re “individuals who self-identify as Christians, but whose outward behavior, and, to the extent that we can tell, inward thoughts ..read more

Panda Pat and the Rat Called Cat by Neil Ballard, Steven Nosov (Illustrator) DETAILS: Publisher: Bookbaby Publication Date: December 23, 2020 Format: Hardcover Length: 36 pgs. Read Date: April 19, 2024 What’s Panda Pat and the Rat Called Cat About? This is the story about, well—it’s there in the title. Mostly, it’s about Cat, with his pal, Pat, playing a good supporing role (with Pat getting the lead-off position in the title, I assumed he’d be the focus, but he isn’t—and that might just be me). Cat got his moniker as an insult, really—no rat gets nicknamed that as a sign of respect or f ..read more

It seems like every audiobook I’ve placed on hold at the library became available in the last week–thankfully, I’ve been able to (mostly) stay on top of them. This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words—and shown to me by Aurore-Anne-Chehoke at Diary-of-a-black-city-girl. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Seems easy enough, right? Let’s take a peek at this week’s answers: What are you currently reading? I’m reading Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ..read more

I’m very pleased today to welcome The Write Reads Blog Tour for the first book in Mark Cushen’s Garlan Greatheart series, Little White Hands! If you take a look at the feed for https://twitter.com/WriteReadsTours over the next few days, you’ll see a lot of bloggers who did find the time to write interesting things about it. Little White Hands was one of fifteen finalists for the 2023 Book Blogger’s Novel of the Year Award, so you know there’s a lot of good to be said about it–but before getting to this Spotlight, let’s start with a word about BBNYA. BBNYA: BBNYA is a yearly competition where b ..read more

The Ballad of Bonaduke— Episode 51: Come AroundAround by R.T. Slaywood DETAILS: Series: The Ballad of Bonaduke, #51 Format: Kindle Vella Story Read Date: April 16, 2024 The Story So Far… A drunken Michael Bonaduke decides to use a grift (with maybe some sort of magic/magic-like “help”) to win on a scratch-off lottery ticket so he has money to buy more to drink. He pulls off whatever he did, gets his money and some booze and stumbles off into the darkness to drink himself into oblivion so he can start again the next day. He’s hit by dark memories (probably what’s driving him to the drinking ..read more

Music Monday's originated at The Tattooed Book Geek's fantastic blog and has shown up hither, thither, and yon since then. I prefer the studio version, but there’s something about this that’s almost as infectious. The post MUSIC MONDAY: Battle without Honor or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei first appeared on The Irresponsible Reader ..read more