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Updated for December. You can see the I've since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of December

🐾 This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman

🗿 The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

🎈 The Balloon Hunter by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

🌧 Goblin by Josh Malerman

New read - Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 13

My goodness! Laios outsmarted the demon.

We got some great backstory of the demon who created the dungeon. What a great moment to really understand the character better.

But yea, this was a moment where Laios outsmarted one of the most powerful beings in the entire universe.

But, at what cost? That's how it ends. We're not sure yet.

Final volume next. Thankfully, I already have it from my library.

Photograph of Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 13 held by a white person's hand against a light colored wall. The cover is bordered in red and gold with the title in the lower right-hand corner. A three headed monster with various animal heads is chasing a group of fantasy adventurers who appear to be running for their lives.

Buongiorno. Alma has increased our pace target to 15,000. So that we don't get rusty, she said. What she doesn't know is that it's exactly 2x 7500 steps to Pasticceria Carlucci! Saluti, Mafalda Cinquetti from

Buongiorno. Alma has increased our pace target to 15,000. So that we don't get rusty, she said. What she doesn't know is that it's exactly 2x 7500 steps to Pasticceria Carlucci! Saluti, Mafalda Cinquetti from #Venice

Just finished "Libertad" by Bessie Flores Zaldívar. An novel about being queer in Honduras, both personally and politically, that grapples aptly with complicated questions of politics and belonging at a personal scale.

CW for domestic violence and lethal state repression.

It wasn't everything I'd hoped for from the cover, but my hopes weren't exactly reasonable and it *is* very good.

Another I've sort-of read lately: The Dark Lord's Daughter, by Patricia Wrede. (Sort-of read, since I'd read part aloud to my daughter, and then she'd read a chunk or my husband would.)

It's a delightful portal fantasy with all the lovely trope-tweaking and deconstruction you could hope for. Good fun, very cute. (Middle grade, but I plan to go back and read without missing parts when my TBR pile is shorter.)

The Dark Lord's Daughter, by Patricia Wrede. A teen with short hair and shorts stands in front of a spooky castle. In one hand, she holds some magic light. A fox-monkey creature with bat wings curls around her neck. (That's her familiar. He's my favorite.)

I started reading Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines this weekend and will share what I thought of it after I finish it. So far I’m enjoying the fact that the three protagonists are all between the ages of about 56 and 99. That’s cool.

It reminds me a little of what Buffy the Vampire Slayer might have been like after Buffy retired from saving the world and grew old enough to have some health troubles.

If you’ve read it, did you like it?

@bookstodon

Book cover for Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines. Image on cover is of a drawing of a pale-skinned person who is gently leaning on a cane and is wearing yellow slacks and a black shirt. You can see their legs, torso, and arms, but their upper chest and face are not visible. At their feet is a black cat that has six yellow eyes arranged in a pyramid form and several tentacles curling around from its rear end.