What I'm reading now
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
The blurb:
The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up in management. Cue Moist von Lipwig, Postmaster General and former con artist. If anyone can rescue the city's ailing financial institution, it's him. He doesn't really want the job, but the thing is, he doesn't have a choice.
Moist has many problems to solve as part of his new role: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the chairman needs his daily walkies, there's something strange happening in the cellar, and the Royal Mint is running at a loss.
Moist begins making some ambitious changes...and some dangerous enemies. Because money is power and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm grip on both...
...and...
The Hemsworth Effect by James Weir
The blurb:
It started with the Hemsworths. Now, Byron Bay local, Aimee Maguire, is about to lose everything because she can't afford to pay the rent. Her engagement is also on an official time-out since her fiancé doesn’t know what he wants. The last thing she needs is a surprise visit from her micro-influencer niece looking to 'build her brand'.
Her arrival sets off a chain of events that ends with Aimee tangled up with a group of influencers-turned-reality TV stars, exposing her to the absolute worst of humanity. But somewhere amid this mother of all messes there just might be a silver lining Aimee has been searching for. All she needs to do is embrace the one thing she's been fighting so hard against — change.
Next up
- Not sure...I think I need to catch up on writing reviews a bit!
What I've read
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (review to come)
- Real Tigers by Mick Herron (review to come)
- On The Way To The Wedding by Julia Quinn (review to come)
- Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (review to come)
- Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell (review to come)
- Blue Poles by Tom McIlroy
- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
- It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
- Never Flinch by Stephen King
- Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
- Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
- The Truth by Terry Pratchett
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Dead Lions by Mick Herron
- The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe with Danny Lore, Yohanca Delgado, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Eve L Ewing
- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
- A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters
- Thud! by Terry Pratchett
- Gunnawah by Ronni Salt
- When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
- Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
- The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
- To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
- Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
- Year's Best SF 2, edited by David G Hartwell
- Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
- Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
- Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
- Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
- An Offer From A Gentleman by Julia Quinn
- Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
- Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
- The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
- Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
- The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
- Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S Dawson
- Mort, by Terry Pratchett
- The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
- Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle
- We'll Prescribe You A Cat, by Syou Ishida, translated by E Madison Shimoda
- Mean Streak, by Rick Morton
- Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty
- Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
Still to read
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- Chapelwood: The Borden Dispatches 2 by Cherie Priest
- Mrs Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
- The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
- The Gods Below by Andrea Stewart
- The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and J Michael Straczynski
- Bloom by Delilah S Dawson
- The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
- Blood Covenant by Alan Baxter
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Not Quite by the Book by Julie Hatcher
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- Requiem Moon by CT Rwizi
- Primeval Fire by CT Rwizi
- The World We Make by NK Jemisin
- Countess by Suzan Palumbo
- So many Pratchett novels...
On top of this, I've got issues of Clarkesworld, Forever and Khoreo, plus a bunch of year's best anthologies in horror and science fiction to catch up on.
On reserve at the library
- Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
- Making Money, Terry Pratchett
Plan to reread
- The City We Became by NK Jemisin, ahead of reading The World We Make
- Scarlet Odyssey by CT Rwizi, ahead of reading Requiem Moon and Primeval Fire
- Snare, by Katharine Kerr
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