October 9, 2025 · 8:00 am

#HRCYED Award Season

This is what I’m reading for the HRCYED Award Season Prompt. The Bram Stoker Awards don’t put out a longlist or nominee list, so I’ve had to do more than one award to get all of the levels. (As per the FAQ, this is allowed.)

Bram Stoker Award:

  • Winner: The Reformatory – Tananarive Due
  • Winner: The Daughters of Black Island – Christa Carmen
  • Finalist: Black River Orchard – Chuck Wendig
  • Finalist: How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix

Women’s Prize:

  • Semifinalist: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – VE Schwab
  • Semifinalist: Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

Locus Award:

  • Nominee: Space Oddity – Catherynne M Valente

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October 5, 2025 · 6:00 pm

Sunday Night Music- Martin Luther King Sings

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October 3, 2025 · 8:00 am

Quote of the Week – October 3, 2025

Reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Seneca

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October 2, 2025 · 8:00 am

#HRCYED TBR Game

This is what I’m reading for the HRCYED TBR Game Challenge. 

I chose to use the Star Hop Challenge from Stephanie’s Bookverse. https://youtu.be/2IcyUiZ5o0Q?si=xNxLUP4VuOx87R4A

  • Book I Know Nothing About: Eats of Eden – Tabitha Blankenbiller (I do know that I met the author at AWP a few years ago which is where I got this book. It’s signed and everything! I just got it based on the cute pin-up model on the front cover and the pun. Don’t judge me.)
  • Series Continuation: The Girl in the Green Silk Gown – Seanan McGuire 
  • Most Anticipated: Once in a Blue Moon – Simon R. Green
  • Series Continuation: Pirate’s Life for Tea – Rebecca Thorne
  • Ends in an Even Page Number: The Black Girl Survives in This One – ed. Desiree S Evans & Saraciea J Fennell
  • Series Continuation: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario – Matt Dinniman

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September 30, 2025 · 8:00 am

Books to Read- September 2025

  • We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
  • Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Cetaganda – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Lord of Stariel – AJ Lancaster
  • In the House of Aryaman, a Loney Signal Burns – Elizabeth Bear
  • Morgan is my Name – Sophie Keetch
  • A Certain Hunger – Chelsea G Summers
  • The Grand Hotel – Scott Kenemore

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September 28, 2025 · 6:00 pm

Sunday Night Music-Rise Up

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September 26, 2025 · 8:00 am

Quote of the Week – September 26, 2025

There is no accounting for human beings.
Mark Twain

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September 25, 2025 · 8:00 am

#HRCYED Translation Challenge

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Translation Challenge: (Note, I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • The Secret Life of Elves (French) – Muriel Barbery (Trans. Alison Anderson)
  • Dance Dance Dance (Japanese) – Haruki Murakami (Trans. Alfred Birnbaum)
  • The Odyssey (Greek) – Homer (Trans. Emily Wilson)
  • The Nightmare (Swedish) – Lars Kepler (Trans. Laura A Wideburg)
  • Love’s Ripening (Farsi) – Rumi (Trans. Kabir Helminski & Ahmad Rezwani)

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September 21, 2025 · 6:00 pm

Sunday Night Music-God Knows I’m Good

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September 19, 2025 · 8:00 am

Quote of the Week – September 19, 2025

The secret of success is consistency to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

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