Happy New Year, steadfast friends and readers! It’s so weird to type “2015” right? Well, here we are, the start to another year. After a year of big changes (going back to work full-time, having my blog shut down), I’m looking forward to a more productive reading year. I’m starting January off with a bang, I have lots of review commitments and a couple of blog tours, but I’m excited about each one of them. Here’s what’s on my plate this month:
For review from publishers:
Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish. I’ve read some fellow bloggers’ reviews on this already, and I’m super excited to get started. This is definitely next on the pile!
Hellhole by Gina Damico. I’m reading this right now (and may be finished by the time you read this), and it’s hysterically funny. I’m really enjoying it!
Atlanta Burns by Chuck Wendig. A contemporary YA story from Wendig? Hey, I’ll read anything he writes…
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick. I’m still trying to get to Midwinter Blood, but in the meantime, I’m reading this for review.
Covenant’s End by Ari Marmell. OK, so I know this is the fourth (?) book in the series, and I haven’t read the first three. So yeah, we’ll see how that goes, LOL! In any case, I hear great things about this series!
Blog tours and author events:
Pacific Fire by Greg Van Eekhout. I’m very excited to be part of Greg’s tour! California Bones was one of my favorite books of 2014, so I’m curious to see where the story is going next. Join me on January 28th for an interview with Greg and a giveaway!
Tunnel Vision by Susan Adrian. The kind folks at St. Martin’s Griffin invited me to be part of this blog tour. I believe this is a debut, and it looks great. Stop back on January 22 for my review and a giveaway!
The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan. Mr. Aslan contacted me and asked if I’d like to do an interview with him, and I said YES! without even a second thought. This book has been on my radar since before it came out, but just never made it to the top of the pile. It’s received fantastic reviews, and the sequel comes out this year. I now have a copy in my hands and plan to read it soon. I don’t have the date scheduled, but check back later this month for my interview, as well as an audio book giveaway!
Blog events:
Believe it or not, I’ve tracked down TWO Science Fiction events this month, and I’m going to try to do at least something with both of them. I’m not making any firm commitments, but let’s see what happens. First up: Vintage Science Fiction Month, hosted by The Little Red Reviewer, in which we read and discuss pre-1979 science fiction gems. In tandem with that is Stainless Steel Droppings’ The 2015 Sci-Fi Experience, which is another opportunity to read and review one of my favorite genres. Click on those links if you’re interested in joining up.
That’s it for my month, what’s on your plate for January?
Looks like you have some great things in store this month! I am a bit surprised, we actually don’t have a single book in common (planned) for January!
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That is unusual, oh well, I’ll be looking forward to your reviews this month:-)
I can’t even express how STOKED I am that your blog is back! I kept checking after I got a ton of “broken links” notifications, and was SO sad to see you’d disappeared! I’m so glad that you’re still blogging and back in action!
I hope 2015 [it DOES feel SO odd typing that!!] is marvelous for you!
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Thanks April!! Boy that was so stressful:-( I’m super glad to be away from WordPress.com and “on my own” so to speak:-) I hope you have a wonderful 2015 too!
Hellhole is the only of those that I actually have on my to read list. I have tried download it from NetGalley and so far failed. But it does look good.
Unfortunately, it won’t work on Kindle. You either need a Nook or you just need to install Adobe Digital Editions on your computer and read it from that. I know, pain in the ass. But I’m glad I read it, it was hysterical! Good luck. Let me know if you need more detailed instructions on ADE, it’s fairly complicated and ridiculous in my opinion LOL!
I have the Owl book too and really looking forward to it. In fact I better get on and read that one methinks! Chuck Wendig – I absolutely love his Miriam series and he’s definitely going on my ‘authors I like to keep an eye out for’.
Happy 2015 to you 😀
Lynn
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Happy 2015 to you too, Lynn! I think Owl is my next book, since it’s coming out in a couple of weeks. Yep, Chuck is awesome:-)
I lost the fight with Atlanta Burns and ended up requesting it. Well, I had just sent in feedback on another book at NG, so I figured why the hell not!
And Islands at the End of the World has been on my radar ever since I heard about it too, looking forward to seeing your review and the author interview!
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You are so much better at NG than me, but that’s a great idea. Don’t request anything new until you submit a review. I’m going to have to remember that one!
Happy New Year Tammy! The Ghosts of Heaven is one I want to get into soon as well, seeing as I purchased the book recently!
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Happy New Year, Jeann! Hope we both love The Ghosts of Heaven:-)
I haven’t really organized my January reading yet, some I’ve already read…I should probably list that I a post somewhere each month like you do! I’m checking some of these out..hell hole, tunnel and the last one. Snoop snoop
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I think I would be lost without my first-of-the-month post, because it really does get me organized. Hellhole was a bunch of fun!
Sorry I didn’t get over to this specific post earlier, but wanted to thank you for posting about The Sci Fi Experience and Vintage SF Month. 🙂
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My pleasure! I hope to actually post something related to it, so far I’m not doing too well with my reading. But I’m so glad you’re doing this:-)