Happy Saturday Links
11-6-21
Hey readers,
I hope you had a great week and the weekend holds fun and lots of reading for you. Most of us get an extra hour tomorrow to do with what we want. I don’t know about you, but my extra hour will be taken up with finishing a book that I’m really enjoying.
Another week that I missed my self-imposed Friday publishing date for the “links” newsletter. I’ve decided to quit stressing about it, so no more apologies. I’ll either publish the links on Friday, and if I miss it for any reason, I’ll publish it on Saturday, and it will be called Happy Saturday Links.
I was sick a couple of days this week, and I didn’t get a lot of my newsletter reading done, and that is where I usually find most of my links to share. I found a few that were interesting that I think you might enjoy too. So here we go with this week’s links:
I know many readers have serious problems with Goodreads (its owner) and its rating system for various reasons. Some users have switched to other book tracking programs. This article from Book Riot highlights a few alternatives, and I’ve been hearing great things about Storygraph.
I’m not much of a cook, and my baking skills are mainly cookies and store-bought cake mixes. I saw this article, and I can’t believe some of the things you can make with store-bought pie crust dough. Some of these sound really good and have inspired me to dream up some of my own.
I don’t read a lot of crime or mystery/suspense novels, but the book that has me so enthralled right now is a suspense novel. I found several on this list that looks like they would be really good and I have a couple of them from Net Galley that I will be reading soon.
So many of us book nerds think that a job as a librarian sounds like the best job in the world. I think the reality is probably different than our fantasy of being able to read all day long. This article sheds light on some misconceptions of what a librarian really does. It ultimately shows us what a great job it is for the right person.
Most of these tips are common sense, but this article is just a reminder of the etiquette needed to keep Little Free Libraries chock full of books for all of us to enjoy. I get a lot of books from publishers, and when I’m finished with them, I take them to the LFL in my area to share with others.
I got a kick out of this list of reading disasters as I’ve done a few of these myself. These are the types of things that you can laugh about afterward.
There are a few books publishing next week that I have an interest in and one that I’ve read; I’m sure I’ll never get to all of them, but one can hope:
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King - I’ve read all of King’s previous books, and I’m looking forward to reading this one. This book is different from her earlier books as it is a book of five short stories. While I’m not usually a short story reader, I will give this a chance as I enjoy her writing. If anyone can pull this off, it is her.
Heard It in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves - Provided by the publisher, “From the best selling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances.” I enjoyed her previous book, and from the description, I think I might enjoy this one also.
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - From the publisher, “Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion of a complex marriage and a woman’s relentless errors.” The plot about a bookstore’s most annoying customer haunting the bookstore after she dies is what draws me to this book; I have it on hold through Libby, and I can’t wait to read it. I love books about books, bookstores, and all things bookish, and this one sounds like a great book for book lovers.
Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin - An emergency room physician turned author writes about medicine, those that work in that field, and the relationships in the lives and careers of the characters. Martin was a guest in the MMD Book Club in October 2021, and she told us all about her writing process and how she writes compelling stories for her readers. I read her first two books in the last couple of years and thoroughly enjoyed this one as an ARC from Net Galley.
The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly - I love the Bosch series on Amazon. After watching it, I started reading the books that inspired the series and enjoyed them even more. Connelly started the “Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch” series a few years back, and I’ve read the first two so far. I have the third one on my e-book library wish list, and I will be putting this one on the same wish list. As in the Bosch series, we learn more about the new detective as she grows into her character, and Bosch is back on the scene in all the ways that we love him.
In future newsletters, I’ll let you know what I think of some of the Tuesday books that I’ve highlighted the last couple of weeks, and if you read them, I’d love to hear what you think in the comments.
It will be a slow, lazy weekend for me with lots of reading; hopefully, you can find time to read too. I’m also taking some time to do some planning now for my newsletter for early next year. I have some new ideas for stand-alone and series newsletters that I think you may enjoy. Happy reading!
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