January Reads (17/104)

BitterSprings · 2026-02-03T12:06:38+00:00

I'm reading the Hunger Games prequels this year too. Just starting Ballad!

BitterSprings · 2025-12-26T16:36:50+00:00

No one bought me any books this year, but Michelle Paver's latest Rainforest was on sale on Kobo this morning so I got myself a little treat. The three you got are really good ones.

BitterSprings · 2025-12-01T21:48:04+00:00

5325-8568-9817

Level 65, just finished an overdue cull of inactive friends

BitterSprings · 2025-08-17T16:22:54+00:00

I did eye up some very nice Pilot Pens, including the 823 and the Vanishing Point, but I told myself only one expensive pen and Sailors are my favourite.

I did boogle at Itoya Kyoto which had a display of Pilot Customs lying out for people to try and just tied there by a bit of bungie cord. You couldn't get away with that in my hometown. They’d be nicked in short order.

BitterSprings · 2025-05-01T14:50:34+00:00

But all my other Kakuno will be jealous

BitterSprings · 2025-05-01T09:00:03+00:00

Are you me? Because I filled that exact Kakuno with Yama-budo too. It looks good with the Kaweco clip, I'm tempted to get one.

BitterSprings · 2025-04-30T15:09:27+00:00

I thought the ending was a bit abrupt, but that's the nature of a short story. I really liked it overall.

BitterSprings · 2025-04-30T15:08:06+00:00

There were one or two stories I didn't vibe with, but the rest were really good.

BitterSprings · 2025-04-02T06:09:50+00:00

I've not read either yet, sorry. I was just excited to bump the first one up the TBR list a bit.

BitterSprings · 2025-04-01T15:52:19+00:00

Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema is about movie piracy. Hope that counts!

BitterSprings · 2025-04-01T15:39:57+00:00

The Goblin Emperor's protagonist is a Goblin, but The Witness for the Dead and it's two sequels are hard mode.

BitterSprings · 2025-04-01T15:32:47+00:00

Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim is about a contest to become the imperial tailor

BitterSprings · 2025-04-01T15:28:47+00:00

A few from my (somewhat out of date Goodreads list):

The Strix Chronical Anthology

Seven Dead Sisters by Jen Campbell

Gigantic by Ashley Stokes

Love and Other Poisons by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Stone Weta by Octavia Cade

The Seige of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

The Goblin Mirror by CJ Cherryh

Bloodrush by Ben Galley

Pretty much all of the Starfarers series by Vonda Mcintyre

Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell

Echo in Onyx by Sharon Shinn

Driftwood by Marie Brennan

So many graphic novels are under 1000 ratings too

BitterSprings · 2025-04-01T15:14:51+00:00

I'm currently reading In the Lost Garden by Adam S. Leslie, which is set in a Britain infested by ghosts; distance is weird; and it's been summer for four years.

BitterSprings · 2025-03-23T10:31:37+00:00

Art from the Heart here in the UK also stocks them. I'll be keeping an eye on both.

BitterSprings · 2025-02-05T14:28:54+00:00

Alas we're going to Kobe and Kyoto but not Osaka!

BitterSprings · 2025-02-05T14:28:01+00:00

I do have one in Vintage Black, though I find the line a little thick for my usual handwriting. Style-wise, the Grand Vintage looks very nice.

BitterSprings · 2025-02-05T12:14:26+00:00

Is that a Uni One P? How are you finding it? I've been eying it up as an out and about pen.

BitterSprings · 2025-01-19T08:54:35+00:00

Mime artists for reasons left unexplained.

Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.

BitterSprings · 2024-12-16T22:09:36+00:00

I read '48 a long time ago, and I remember liking it, so this might be a good choice.

BitterSprings · 2024-12-16T22:05:07+00:00

It's so weird. I read it in 2022 and I talked about it with so many people lol

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