Welcome to Buffy’s Corner, where I take a look at what’s coming up this week on the blog! I’m linking up with The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s blog, The Caffeinated Reviewer:-D
I hope everyone had a good week! I had a three day weekend so I ended up getting lots of reading in, which is nice because I have so many review books this month. Not much news to report, other than California is having awesome weather right now! Meanwhile, my daughter is in Boston where they have bad snow storms and very low temps. I’m hoping she’s wishing right now that she’d never left California, lol.
Friday was frustrating because the Goodreads search engine seemed to be completely broken, and I took to Twitter to see if anyone else was having issues. It appears I wasn’t alone and it was causing all sorts of frustrations. But things seem to be working today so it looks like Goodreads has fixed it, at least for now.
Anyway, reading wise I seem to be on a science fiction/time travel/clone binge, which wasn’t planned but it’s just the way my February TBR worked out. Here’s what I’ve been reading and what’s coming up:
Upcoming reviews:
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey was a lot of fun, and also surprised me. I was expecting something a bit different, but I ended up loving Gailey’s psychological character study about a brilliant scientist caught up in an clone experiment gone wrong. Look for my review tomorrow!
I blew through The Future is Yours by Dan Frey in just over a day (something I never do, but I took Friday off work and literally read all day). It was a twisty, mind-bending story about a computer that can see one year ahead into the future and the controversy surrounding it. I enjoyed it! It wasn’t perfect but it certainly kept me turning pages. And I’ve just started A History of What Comes Next, which seems to be a complex historical tale about aliens and their involvement in shaping our history. It’s more on the cerebral side and is a slower read than the last few books, but I’m intrigued so far. I may or may not get my review up this week, but if not, next week for sure.
Upcoming reads:
My next three reads will probably be The Minders, Dragonfly Girl and The Package, all coming out this month. After these I will most likely try to start slotting in March reads so I can get a head a little (hard to believe I’m already looking ahead to March!)
The usual memes…
Sort of a slow week on the blog, which is OK with me. Look for some new cover reveals on Future Fiction on Wednesday, and The Friday Face-Off is “furry.” Other than that, I don’t expect to be posting anything except a couple of reviews.
In case you missed…
Here are my posts from last week:
Over-Booked [132] – A Book Haul Post
The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson – Review 4/5 stars
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell – Review 4.5/5 stars
What’s On My Plate – February 2021
Long weekends are a bliss!! And I am glad you are enjoying the weather, here in my corner of Italy, it is quite a depressive weather, not too cold, but the sky is gray all day long, sometimes it is rainy or foggy. I usually enjoy a couple days of this weather, but it is more than a week now and it is becoming a bit too much!!
I hope the sun comes out soon, Susy, all that gray sky sounds gloomy…
The Minders looks really good. I’ve been curious about A History of What Comes Next. I hope it turns out OK!
Me too, I actually decided to read The Minders first…
Glad you’re having such wonderful weather– here on the east coast I’m a bit jealous. It’s snowing again today haha. I’ll be glad when spring arrives. Have a wonderful week, Tammy!
For some reason February is pretty nice here, but March is often colder, so we’ll see what happens:-)
Sounds like you are enjoying your reads! I am curious about Echo Wife so can’t wait for your review! 🙂
It was pretty trippy, I loved it:-)
The Future is Yours has a very intriguing premise, and the fact that you “inhaled” it in a day is very encouraging!
I will look at those lovely geese while I wait for your review… 😉
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Aren’t those geese beautiful?;-)
Well those are some interesting geese, don’t think I’ve seen ones like that before. I like the title, “A History of What Comes Next.” For whatever reason it reminds me of an Austrian movie called “Tomorrow, When the War Began.” Sometimes great titles, just like great covers, are enough to get me to try a book (or movie).
My husband was excited when he saw the Egyptian Geese, I guess they are pretty rare here.
I’m excited to hear your thoughts with the upcoming reviews! And I’m sooo excited for Empire of the Vampire too! The cover is stunning.
I can’t stop looking at that cover:-)
I just finished The Echo Wife and I loved it. My review will be coming up soon too.
Oh cool, I’m glad you loved it too:-) Looking forward to your review!
I am glad you seem to have had a great week! They are announcing polar weather for next week here so California is really appealing right now!
I can’t believe how cold it is in other parts of the world right now. Stay warm!
Those are some lovely geese
I’ve ended up with a sci/fi/time travel theme in February, I don’t usually like reading too much sci-fi in a row, so I hope it doesn’t backfire on me
Good luck with all your sci fi! I think I’m going to need some fantasy after my next couple of reads, lol.
I’m looking forward to your review of The Echo Wife! 😀
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Tomorrow!
We are so in sync — I’m about to start The Future Is Yours, and then The Echo Wife! I’m so glad you enjoyed both!
I really loved The Echo Wife the most out of those two, but The Future is Yours was so much fun!
NetGalley UK had a teaser arc of the Sylvain Neuvel book, I’m curious to see how it pans on when I eventually get my mits on the full book.
Boston sounds like it’s a world away weather wise! I think if I moved to a warmer climate I’d miss the snow despite my moaning about it!
Have a good week.
I’ve been loving all the snow photos on Instagram and I wish it would snow here…
Hey it’s only the first week of February and I’m still trying to figure out February’s reading. Which as you noted, was not assisted with the Goodreads search meltdown. I’m glad you got a day off to just read and relax!
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It was nice to read all day, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to do that:-)
Yay for 3-day weekends and getting lots of reading done. It snowed here so I’ve been hibernating and reading a lot too. 🙂
Snow must be the best hibernation incentive ever!
I’m glad you have had a 3-day weekend and have been able to put your feet up and spend a day reading – I hope that you were able to thoroughly relax!
It was very relaxing, thank you Sarah:-)
I am loving the California weather right now. We spent some time outside today, which was nice. Since I have tomorrow off from work, maybe I’ll get in some outside reading time in. My poor daughter and husband and school and work. I had heard the East Coast has been getting a lot of snow. I don’t envy them in the least.
I suspected something was wrong with the Goodreads search engine the other day and then saw on Twitter I wasn’t alone. I am glad they seem to have gotten it fixed.
It sounds like your reading is going well and you’ve read some great books. I hope you enjoy your current reads and upcoming ones as well!
I hope you have a great week, Tammy!
We are really lucky with our weather, that’s for sure. Have a good week, Wendy!
I’m kind of in a slump but I’m hoping to get a few books done this week! Hope you’ll have a good one!
Good luck with your reading:-)
Even more looking forward to The Future is Yours now! I have the Neuvel to pick up at the library soon. Hopefully you enjoy that one too!
I hope so too, it’s a bit slow to start but once you get in the rhythm, it’s going faster:-)
Yesss! Looking forward to your review of A History of What Comes Next. Happy reading 🙂
Thanks Nadine!
The future is Yours sounds good if it kept you reading all day. Look forward to your review for that one.
Lynn 😀
That’s always a good sign:-)