It's April! Where in the world is time going? In case you're wondering where my Best Books is for March...there won't be one. March was an unusually low reading month for me; I only finished ONE BOOK. I read The X-Files Origins: Agents of Chaos by Kami Garcia. The X-Files is probably my favorite show of all time, so I enjoyed reading Mulder's background story. The book was pretty good, but I can't honestly call it a favorite.
So we're getting right into the TBR for April. It will probably come as no surprise to you that I've decided to largely replicate my March TBR, since I never got around to reading those books. But there are a few changes, namely the removal of The Feather Thief (bailed!) and The City of Brass (dubious that I can get it finished before the end of the month, so I'm pushing it back a bit). Other than that, it's the same. My goal this month is to read four books, and get back into the groove of reading!
Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic—the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience—have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims. Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there’s nobody with the power to stop them. To have a chance at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined.
This is a book I've noticed while browsing on several occasions, mostly due to its eye-catching cover. I'm always a little leery of fantasy (something that STILL astounds me), but this sounds like it has a science fiction angle that I might enjoy. It was a limited deal for the Kindle, so I decided to snap it up and give it a try!
The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage.
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