Bookquarium

Y'all know I LOVE me a good natural disaster book. Epic floods? Earthquakes? Volcanoes? Sign me up. The Waters Will Come  was published in late 2017, but it only crossed my radar late last year, so of course I JUMPED at the chance to read it. It's a nonfiction book that looks in depth at global warming and it's effects on ocean levels. More importantly, how humans all over the world will be super boned when the water levels rise because it effects so much. Bye, Florida. Adios, most of Italy. See you later, normal life as we know it now. The book was a nice mix of "here's actual facts about things that happened and the policies and decisions that made it this way" and "here is a very plausible scenario that will happen if we let things continue as they are." While this book doesn't exactly inspire hope for the future, it does slap us in the face enough to want to take action, which is hopeful in itself, I think. Love ya, Lady P.

Do you know how many times I've spelled "Crichton" wrong when trying to help library patrons find his books? Turns out it's a big deal if you put the H before the R, as far as finding his books on the shelves goes. Today, I'll be talking at you about one of the great pieces of thriller/science fiction literature, The Andromeda Strain.  And how, uh... I thought it was maybe a little bit boring?? I really enjoy Crichton's work. He's fast paced, he has a tendency to write tropes I really like (including this one - killer alien plague that threatens to wipe out all of humanity? I'll take two.) He's very edge of your seat, and seems to get the science at least in the ballpark. (I say seems because I don't know a photon from a hole in the ground, and wouldn't know to start fact checking if I wanted to.) To that end, I will say that I found the initial people dying horribly bits super interesting. The whole premise was interesting! It was  v...

Y'all ready for this?  I first heard about this rather ludicrous series at the "Bananas Books" panel hosted by Sarah MacLean and Sophie Jordan at this year's KissCon (which just wrapped in Chicago two weeks ago and guys, it was amazing, I'll tell you about it later.) One of the series someone brought up was the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon. I'd never heard of it before. Frankly, the covers are amaze-bad. (See: lady about to give a giant blue man a blowjob.) The basic premise of the series is this: A bunch of (gorgeous, thin, supermodel-esque) women all get abducted by aliens (???) and somehow (I don't know, I only read book 7) end up on this Hoth-like ice planet that is also inhabited by a race of caveman-like blue humanoid aliens who also have giant devil horns, and basically look like steroid-ridden cave men with giant blue dicks. Bananas, right? It gets better. In order to survive on the planet, everyone has to have a "khui...

Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid I stumbled across this book as I do so many of my books these days, our fellow tank mate Elley told me about it. A m/m hockey romance with an enemies to lovers subplot? Yes please! Literally all I did this morning was read this book and make an enormous pot of soup, which I then ate while continuing to read this book. It was deeeelightful. Him  by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy is always going to be the quintessential hockey boys falling in love novel for me, because it's so damn perfect, but Heated  Rivalry comes in a very close second now. It's book 2 in the Game Changers  series. Book one (aptly called  Game Changer ) seems to be about a hockey player (Scott Hunter - he makes very brief appearances in this book) who falls in love with a barista, but they have to keep it on the DL because of "hockey-is-homophobic' reasons. This one doesn't appeal to me much because it sounds like the MCs are in love right away and the only th...