I’ve gotten really bad at writing these on time, I’m afraid. I want to blame the heat and workload at my jobs, which definitely are factors, but lately I’ve just lacked the motivation, and I’m sorry for that. At any rate, I acquired some nice new books in July, some of which I’d been looking for for a while.
Let’s see what I a managed to pick up.Read More »
Goodness me, I’ve let it happen again: I’ve waited far too long into the next month to post one of these, but I feel like I’ve got a decent excuse this time. You see, the first week of July I was fairly busy with work, and then all of last week I was on vacation. So, this was left to languish, but I was at a cottage! Surely you can understand. I’ve had some last minute remembrances of what I bought, so it’s one of those months, but I believe I’ve got them all remembered properly now.
Let’s see what I picked up.
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel is the third and final novel of The Themis Files. For the past ten years, Rose, Vincent, and his daughter Eva have been stuck on an alien planet. Through Rose’s ingenuity, the alien invaders who made Themis and massacred 100 million people were persuaded to leave Earth, taking their creation with them. Unbeknownst to them, however, Rose and company were celebrating inside Themis when she was beamed away. Though initially prevented from leaving, Rose, Vincent, and Eva have managed to make their way back to Earth using Themis, where they hope they can finally return to living a normal life. Things are never quite that simple, however, and 10 years is a long time following so much destruction and so many lives lost. Humanity and their understanding of who they are in the universe has forever changed and must be reckoned with before peace can ever be attained again.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme run by That Artsy Reader Girl. This topic is actually from a couple weeks ago. I meant to post about it then, but work has been a little busier lately and I believe that kept me from remembering to do it. At any rate, this week’s topic is a freebie for any previous topic, so I’m taking advantage of that now. I actually finished 7/10 books from my Spring TBR list this year, so I’m hoping this will be a good way to help cement what I want to be reading this season too.Read More »
I managed to show a bit more restraint last month, though I couldn’t help succumbing to some random whims. I really don’t know how it is that you can decide for years that you don’t need certain books, that it doesn’t matter to you if you read them, and then suddenly your mind completely changes—for arbitrary reasons, no less.
Enough talking around it, let’s check out these books.Read More »
Somehow, I went absolutely ham with buying books last month. I don’t think it’s an egregiously high number, all things considered, but it was enough to make me procrastinate writing this post. I didn’t mean to indulge myself this much, I just wound up having too many opportunities to pick up new books at decent prices. I’m once again concerned I forgot one or two, but I do believe all of the are presented below.
Let’s see the damage, shall we? I’m seriously running out of places to put these things.Read More »
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel is book two of three of The Themis Files. It has been ten years since Themis, a giant robot found in pieces around the world and painstakingly reassembled, was turned over to the United Nations, founding the Earth Defense Corps, which stands on guard to defend the world against extraterrestrial threats. Though Kara and Vincent, the only people known to be able to pilot Themis, are living well in their renowned positions, physicist and Themis expert Dr. Rose Franklin has struggled to come to terms with her existence, having mysteriously re-emerged five years younger than she was when she died during an explosion at Denver Airport. Her brilliant mind may not have the luxury of such a personal crisis, however, as a second, larger robot suddenly appears in London, intent on destroying Themis on sight. Unless she can figure out what these visitors want, the very future of humanity may be at risk.
Well, I haven’t left this post too terribly late this month, but I probably should’ve had it up last week. I just felt the itch for other things, I suppose. The only other source of hesitation is the belief that I’m once again forgetting some book or other that I purchased and just hefted onto the pile. I’m pretty confident that I got everything, though. It’s a weird month, because despite the number of books, it feels like I didn’t actually get very many.
Let’s see just what the heck I’m talking about.Read More »
I have no idea what has come over me this past month or so, but I somehow managed to procrastinate writing this post into oblivion, such that I’ll likely be writing another one of these next week, unless I fall into the mental trap again.
Enough dwelling on mistakes, let’s check out these books.Read More »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme run by That Artsy Reader Girl. With winter already approaching its end, at least as far as the calendar is concerned, and a number of my winter to-read books completed, I thought now would be a good time to figure out what books I want to read in the coming springtime months. Though I have a lot more reading time now than I used to, my progress has been a bit slower than I would like, so I’m hoping more of a plan can help motivate me.Read More »
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