rachelmanija is encouraging people to book-blog more in June, and I’d already planning to do some catchup (especially since I’ve actually been reading a lot the last couple weeks! No idea if it’ll last or if my brain will turn again, but might as well try to bottle the light while I can.)

Mine are probably going to be less “reviews” then “rambling about stuff in the books I’d like to talk about more".

Also I just hit my Goodreads reading goal again. I set it really low this year, and have been doubling it every time I hit it so now I’m committed to 96 books for the year.

So here’s part 1 of stuff I read in May: things that were not comics!

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

This is a story set in a fantasy world where gods are creatures that are very present in the world and have very specific rules and natures. It’s a story told by a god, about some of the affairs of gods, although there are humans in it. It’s very good, I like it a lot, if it’s the sort of thing you’d like you will probably like it a lot, and if it’s not, you’ll nope out fast, and either way you probably already know. So I’m not going to talk much about the plot and setting and so on.

But it is famously told in first-person-to-second-person POV - “I am telling you” - and I found myself thinking about it in comparison to the other long work I know in that POV, ( which is, of course, Homestuck. )

An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten

I picked this up when it crossed the desk at work because the title was intriguing, I am always looking for more spinster role models, I’ve liked what little Scandinavian noir I’ve read, and also it was short. It’s a collection of short stories about ( an elderly lady who murders people )

Patrons are People by Sarah Leslie Wallace and Minneapolis Public Library

This is a guide to being a good librarian, published by the Minnesota Public Library and the ALA. I saw it on Awful Library Books ( and the illustrations looked adorable )

5/5, would recommend all my co-workers read it.

Also, the illustrations are indeed adorable. I want a “Model Librarian” mood theme. Luckily it’s up on Hathi Trust as a free ebook, if other people want to also learn the Way of the Model Librarian!