BYL Reading Challenge discussion

Who is your favorite author? Read a book they've written that you haven't gotten to yet. If they have a new release out this year, even better!

The first book I read this year wasn’t a new book, but a new to me book by Katherine Arden. The Bear and the Nightingale by her is one of my all time favourites, so I read the Girl in The Tower. It was good, though not as much so as the first in the trilogy. Now where to squeeze in the the third….

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
My first book by Becky Chambers was The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, from Build Your Library Level 11. She quickly became one of my favorite authors.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a contemplative novel, one to read cozied up with a cup of tea and a highlighter or two. And then a long walk to mull over the content.

I read The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde for this one. It was an interesting idea, and written with classic Fforde absurdity-as-reality style, but it wasn’t a favorite of his for me.

For this prompt I selected They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib because I enjoyed a different one of his books recently and this was a good excuse to read another. It was about the tough times of 2016 but also memories of concerts he's attended and personal stories. I recommend it.

Alternately, I've read most of the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire this year so that is definitely a favorite now!