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Still reading… sort of

By the Tall Girl On December 5, 2020 · Leave a Comment

So, I have read more books since I posted last — I just didn’t have the mental energy to say anything about it. (Sorry.) Here’s a recap of what’s happened since my last report.

I made some progress on the “bought but never read” list. I started with two Fae books — Spare Changeling by […]

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Stars in the Sky

By the Tall Girl On November 8, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Last night, November 7, I sat at my computer and watched the fireworks explode over Delaware, celebrating Joe Biden’s victory in the Presidential election. Seeing those bursts of light in the sky — a sight so tied in our nation’s consciousness to the Fourth of July — I almost cried, because over the past four […]

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Five and two

By the Tall Girl On September 13, 2020 · Leave a Comment

I actually finished my second batch of five books in mid-August, but put off writing the blog post. I read mostly shorter works again — only one full-length novel, while the rest were novellas of various lengths.

Sisters of the Vast Black was the longest novella, and it surprised me — I wasn’t sure going […]

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Five for one

By the Tall Girl On July 18, 2020 · Leave a Comment

For the first few months of Covid lockdown, I struggled with reading. Sometimes I could manage it, and sometimes I couldn’t. I’d pick up old favorites, read a few chapters, then pick up something else. I even had trouble with The Network Effect, which I’d pre-ordered in September and been dying to read — I’d […]

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