It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 12-12-22

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Any Better Than This by Eric Sean Rawson

Currently Reading

Any Better Than This (Black Rose Writing, 2022) by Eric Sean Rawson

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll—and the Arpanet? It’s June 1967.
On the way to his wedding in Berkeley, a strait-laced computer engineer working on a Defense Department contract picks up a free-spirited hitchhiker. Join Elliot Ames and Morning Star McGovern on a trip down the rabbit-hole that was the Summer of Love.

I won Any Better Than This: A Summer of Love Story through a LibraryThing Early Reviewers giveaway. The novel is a crazy ride that isn’t exactly my cup of tea. A noir farce? A satirical love story? Dark humor, wacky characters, but I might be too straight-laced to laugh at some of the scenes. The characters seem meant to be types that we laugh at, but real harm gets done by the bad guys.

Currently Listening To

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

The Golden Enclaves (Penguin Audio, 2022) by Naomi Novik, read by Anisha Dadia

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik is the last book in her addictive Scholomance trilogy. When this one came through on my library holds, I couldn’t wait to start it, even though I had planned to listen to Christmas books over the next couple of weeks.

Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost

Twelve Slays of Christmas (Blackstone Audio, 2017) by Jacqueline Frost, read by Allyson Ryan

Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost is a cozy mystery set in a town that’s all about Christmas – Mistletoe, Maine. First in the Christmas Tree Farm series.

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