[Susan] In This Month!

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Awesome things done this month
June was surprisingly busy for me - I am gainfully employed now! I went to a four-day long gaming event and played new tabletop systems! I have successfully completed my first year of my Librarianship Masters - including a module where I built a terrible website for this blog! :D

In book-related news, I was a guest on the second episode Lady Business+, where Renay and I talked about The Scorpio Races! (Horses are mandatory.) (Dead mothers are not mandatory, but are a really annoying trope.) I had an excellent time, and Renay made us sound super smart. Plus twitter has brought me interesting facts in response, like "Butter tea is actually a thing that exists in Tibet", and "Character X] DID have a mother... But they died."

Media consumed this month:

• Nation by Terry Pratchett.


• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Anne Schaffer and Anne Barrows


• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes


• Queenpin by Megan Abbott


• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón


• The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima


• Skip Beat! 3-in-1 Edition Volume 3


• Skip Beat! 3-in-1 Edition Volume 4


• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


• To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner


• Lazarus #1 by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark


• Fast and Furious 6


• Hannibal


• Battlestar Galactica

Posts coming up next month!

• Eight years after I started the series, I have finally got the last few volumes of Full Metal Alchemist and I'm starting a big re-read! Next month I'll be reviewing it up


• I attempt to decide my feelings about The Shining Girls.


• I have Opinions about Mass Effect Library Edition Volume 1 that may or may not be oscillating between "Bad art induced rage" and "fangirl squee".