So I only checked out one book from the Library this week – Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic, because it turns out it was a bestseller the first week of 1982, so it hits the prompt of “Bestseller the year you were born” from PopSugar. And I’d much rather re-read that than any of the rest of the boring shit that was apparently good that year!

I did wind up with six books from the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend, though! Five of them from Friday, and one from Sunday. I talked about the first five in my post on Sunday, but the last one is All The Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders. We got to listen to her at a couple of panels on Sunday, and she signed the book for me too!

That was all I picked up this week. Need to cut down on my physical To-Be-Read stack when I can!

I picked up seven books this week, in two visits. On my first visit I got All I Want For Halloween, Confessions of the Fox, and Ten Years in the Tub: a decade soaking in great books. (A smutty romance, historical fiction about a transgender thief, and a book about books.)

Ten Years in the Tub wasn’t the only book about books I got this week; on recommendation from Doing Dewey, I requested Dear Fahrenheit 451, which looks fantastic. That was part of my second trip, along with The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, City of Lies, and Like Water.

Between having people over to start a D&D game, the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend, and the Ren Faire bookending everything, I don’t know how much time I’ll have to read, but I need to find some!

I’ve only picked up 4 books this week, two of which I talked about in yesterday’s Fall TBR list.

Swastika Night – a dystopia where the Nazis won and women are relegated to breeding stock
Finding Yvonne – a young adult novel
Educated – Tara Westover’s memoir about being homeschooled
Call Me American – a Nigerian refugee’s memoir

I’m trying really hard to dedicate time to reading in the next couple of weeks, I currently have nineteen books checked out! Gotta whittle that pile down a bit!

I am buckling down and concentrating on reading a book every day this week; I HAVE to knock out some of these library books!

I checked out four books this week:

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which I need to read ASAP as I’m sure I won’t be able to renew it, with the popularity of the movie adaptation on Netflix.

A Whole New World, which is the first in a set of Disney stories, twisted. In this case, what if Jafar found the genie first?

Revolution For Dummies, written by Egypt’s version of Jon Stewart.

And Autonomous, about a “pharmaceutical pirate” who brings cheap drugs to the poor in a future earth with robots.

Picked up five books this week, after turning in four. I really have to start swapping those numbers around!

Grace and Fury
Bannerless
The Wild Dead
The Weight of Feathers
Heart of Thorns

I loved Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series, so I’m looking forward to this post-apocalyptic set. The Weight of Feathers is a Romeo and Juliet retelling by an author I love on Twitter, Grace and Fury is about the bond between sisters, and Heart of Thorns is the “discover you are the very thing you thought you hated for no good reason” trope. Which I enjoy. So five fun books this week!

In addition to my Library Loot, my Book of the Month arrived yesterday! I picked The Silence of the Girls, another book about the women involved in the Trojan War. This one centers on Briseis, who was a queen of a country that neighbored Troy. It released yesterday as well.

Monday I spent at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, helping out at Tiger Torre Art. (And DYING in the heat and humidity, holy cow can it be winter yet?!) Just before cannon, I ran over to Page After Page, the fair’s bookstore. They carry all kinds of medieval-themed books, both fiction and nonfiction. I picked up All’s Faire in Middle School, an adorable-looking graphic novel about a kid who grew up at a Ren Faire because his parents work there.

Only two books this week – I have to slow down after last week! But R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War and the Asian inspired anthology A Thousand Beginnings and Endings both came in this week, and I am SO EXCITED to read them! I’ve been looking forward to both of these for quite some time – a lot of the books that came out this summer have finally made it into the library system so I’ll probably be getting a lot of awesome reads in the next month or two!