Friday Reads: Inbox/Outbox

The Lightfall Magical Readathon begins tomorrow! I am so excited! I’m planning on doing daily reading updates though the readathon, talking about what I’m reading. Hopefully with lots of pictures.

But before we get started on that, I thought today would be a good day to do a quick Inbox / Outbox post and discuss what I’ve read so far in December.

Outbox

The first book I finished this month was System Collapse by Martha Wells (aka Murderbot #7). I listened to this on audiobook during my long travel day on Sunday. That turned out to be a very poor choice on my part. I found it really hard to follow most of the action scenes because most of the bots in this book are numbered instead of named, or they have numbers attached to their names. For some reason, that just made it really hard for me to follow which one was doing what and keep them all straight in my head. It was still really enjoyable, even if I think about a third of it went right through my brain unprocessed. I fully intend to re-read the entire series back-to-back at some point, so no big deal.

I am nearly finished reading Full Moon Over Freedom by Angelina M. Lopez. My plan is to finish reading it tonight so that I can start one of the books on my Lightfall TBR tomorrow. I’ve been really enjoying it, maybe even more than the first book in this series. The characters are great, and I love how the author is interweaving the events the historical storyline alongside the present-day romance.

Inbox

I met with my “Camp Book Club” friends yesterday, and we decided to read Paladin’s Faith this month (book #4 in T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel series). The only problem is, I haven’t read book #3 yet (Paladin’s Hope). So I need to catch up before our discussion at the end of this month. These should be pretty quick reads for me, so I’m thinking I’ll dive back into this world as soon as the Lightfall Readathon is over.

I am also falling behind on my Adventure in Aeldia prompts. I am still reading November’s book (This Golden Flame), and I still have to read the book I picked out for December (Woven in Midnight). Since I have not been finishing the books in the month I’m supposed to read them, I’m not counting reputation points for this quest. I’m just doing this for fun. But, I still want to finish all of this year’s prompts before the end of the year. Mostly because reading these books was my one reading goal for 2023, and I am SO CLOSE to achieving it! But I have some catching up to do.

At this point, I’ve pretty much given up on my overly ambitious end of year TBR and replaced it with my Lightfall Readathon TBR plus these three books:

Anything else I can squeeze in from that end of year list will be a bonus.