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Monthly Wrap-Up – August 2024

A quick look at what I read, what I reviewed, and the state of my challenges and resolutions.

Sunday Post – 9/01/2024

A not-very-productive week, with good news about my wrist and an unpleasant discovery about the roof.

Also, a look back at this week’s reading, reviews, and blog posts, plus the weekly book haul!

Sunday Post – 8/25/2024

It’s been a good week! A new deck, new sliders, new curtains, and new hope.

Also, a look back at this week’s writing, reading, reviews, and blog posts, plus the weekly book haul!

Sunday Post – 8/18/2024

I’m recovering from the cold or whatever laid me flat last weekend. And we are slowly making progress on putting the house back together.

Also, a look back at this week’s reading, reviews, and blog posts, plus the weekly book haul!

I love this gentle romance, which explores how two people, through sheer politeness, respect, and upper-class British reticence, end up in a conventionally distant arranged marriage instead of the affectionate, loving union they both desire… and how they eventually find their way to the real marriage they long for (with a little outside help from an unexpected quarter.)

Without a Summer, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal makes good use of the historical “year without a summer” in the third book of her Glamourist Histories. As Britain remains locked in winter’s grip, Jane and her husband Vincent are in London to work on a glamour commission for Lord Stratton, an Irish peer. Hearing that her sister Melody is melancholic and realizing there are few marriageable men near home, the Vincents invite Melody to stay with them. Melody’s growing affection for Stratton’s son, Mr. O’Brien, is complicated by Jane’s suspicions of the young man, and by the public’s growing belief that coldmongers are responsible for the unseasonable weather. Meanwhile, Jane and Vincent must contend with his father’s relentless cruelty and ambition, as well as a shadowy plot that threatens O’Brien, the young coldmongers, Jane and Vincent’s very lives, and even the British government itself.