Weekend reading plans?
I've got books, but let's be real: There's a lot of CW Nancy Drew in my future.
What are you planning to read this weekend?
Here’s what I’ve got on deck:
The Twisted Ones, by T. Kingfisher: I read Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places recently—it’s a portal fantasy very much about a world that you would NOT want to accidentally fall into, and it was scary and funny and smart and it absolutely left me wanting more (in a good way), so when I finished it I IMMEDIATELY requested this one from the library. It’s about a woman who’s cleaning out her dead grandmother’s house—which is a challenge, as her grandmother was a hoarder—and finds her stepgrandfather’s journal, and things go sideways from there.
T. Kingfisher, by the way, also writes as Ursula Vernon. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the same person who writes the Harriet Hamsterbone series also writes some legit terrifying Lovecraftian (minus the racism) horror, but here we are.
The Forest of Stolen Girls, by June Hur: Historical mystery set in 1400s Korea that starts with two girls disappearing and then reappearing, unconscious, at the site of a horrible crime. Years later, their detective father goes to investigate and then HE disappears, so one of the daughters heads back to the site of the original disappearance to see if she can solve the mystery that ripped her family apart.
I came across this one because it was shortlisted for the Edgar this year.
The Maid, by Nita Prose: Locked room mystery about Molly Gray, a hotel maid at the sumptuous Regency Grand, who finds a dead body in one of her rooms and almost immediately becomes the prime suspect.
Recommended by one of you (thank you!!), as a book that might scratch my cozy-ish mystery itch.
I groaned. When you find some kind of journal in a strange alternate universe, it’s supposed to have helpful information that explains what the hell is going on, and maybe how to stop it. Instead, what do we get? A bunch of military acronyms, a Bible, and a porno magazine.
—The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher
Watching:
If you’re on Twitter, you might have already seen that I have gone ALL IN on the CW Nancy Drew show that I mentioned earlier this week:
Soooo, as much as I’d like to THINK that I’m going to do all kinds of reading… Nancy very well might derail that?? (Even though I’m six episodes in, part of me wants to start it all over again with Josh because he ALWAYS gets hooked on the teen dramas as well, ESPECIALLY the Josh Schwartz/Stephanie Savage ones, which this is.
Let me know what you’ve got in your pile/queue!
Talk soon,
Leila