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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Auntie Nettie Reads A LOT - 4th Quarter

This is the fourth and final installment of Auntie Nettie's Reading List for 2008. (Links to the first three can be found here.) If you are just finding the blog, please note that this list was maintained mainly so that I could remember what I've read this year. The record does not fully represent me or all of my interests, so don't judge my reading habits. While there have been periods when I seem to focus on one subject matter or author exclusively, that's due to my obsessive habits of wanting to read everything in a series straight through, rather than waiting the months or YEARS that it may take an author to publish new material.

Also, although I could really use the revenue, and as a librarian by training, I'm used to doing readers advisories, I am staying away from making too many recommendations or providing links to major on-line catalogs or retailers.

This is just a list.

Got it?

That being writ, do go forth and read ... I don't care if it's chick lit, the comics, a "How to" or "Dummies" book, the back of the cereal box, or a magazine. Just read something!

October 2008
Ain't Myth-behaving: Two Novellas by Katie MacAlister
Demons are Forever: Confessions of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom (Book 3) by Julie Kenner
The Romanov Bride by Robert Alexander
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
The Writing Class by Jincy Willett
Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel by Anne Cushman
Ice Storm by Anne Stuart
Just Desserts by Barbara Bretton
The Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland
Mozart's Ghost: A Novel by Julia Cameron* {This one was neat, because it was set on the Upper West Side and mentioned the Popover Cafe, site of a recent brunch with Christine!}
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

November 2008
Foundation (The Collegium Chronicles: Valdemar) by Mercedes Lackey
Home for the Holidays by Lisa Plumley
The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters: A Novel by Lorraine Lopez
The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Minda Webber
Mansfield Park Revisted by Joan Aiken
The Reincarnationist (Memorist Society 1) by M.J. Rose
What's a Ghoul to Do? (Ghost Hunter Mysteries, Book 1) by Victoria Laurie
Demons Are a Ghoul's Best Friend (Ghost Hunter Mysteries, Book 2) by Victoria Laurie
Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson
Man of the House: a Novel by Ad Hudler
Deja Demon: The Days and Nights of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom (Book 4) by Julie Kenner
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeriare 1) by Naomi Novik

Throne of Jade (Temeraire 2) by Naomi Novik

December 2008
Black Powder War (Temeraire 3) by Naomi Novik
Empire of Ivory (Temeraire 4) by Naomi Novik [waiting anxiously to get book 5]
Grace: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
The Professors' Wives' Club: A Novel by Joanne Rendell
A Bad Bride's Tale: A Novel by Polly Williams
Death Swatch: A Scrapbooking Mystery by Laura Childs
The Memorist (Memorist Society 2) by M.J. Rose

The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
A Fool and His Honey (Aurora Teagarden 6) by Charlaine Harris
The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo

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