Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air (The Frost Files #2) by Jackson Ford

Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air
(The Frost Files #2)
by Jackson Ford
06/16/2020 (Orbit)

Teagen, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, is back and things are looking up for her. She’s got a steady job working for the China Shop a cover ops team based in L.A. under the guise of a moving company, her friend Nic is getting closer to getting closer, and nobody is trying to arrest her for murder, which was a thing in the first book. She’s Teagan is the most self-absorbed hero ever to brandish special powers, but she’s getting better. Of course that can’t last. Continue reading →

Eggs

In my senior year of high school, I was sent to live with my grandparents, because I was being difficult. One of the upsides to this was that when I went to the new school, they asked me what classes I wanted to take, something that had never happened before. I’m pretty sure that’s because I was on some sort of college track, which kept putting me in upper-level math and science courses, which I kept nearly failing.

It turned out that you could take classes in drawing, ceramics, and photography. There was even something called “Interdisciplinary Environmental Science” which included a week (in the dead of winter) at the NJ State Ecological center where I slept in an unheated cabin and hiked all day. Continue reading →

Garden Kneeler/Stool/Tool Tray

I had so much fun with Fort Tomato (II) last week, that I needed an excuse for more woodworking. Well, there happened to be a fresh crop of mushrooms in the soggy section of the lawn and I planned to weed them, and a hose that needed mending, but I hate getting down on my knees. They never did bend all that way, and they do so less now. Continue reading →

Driving the Deep (Finder Chronicles #2) by Suzanne Palmer 

Think the blackness of space is scary? Wait till you see the darkness in the ocean below the ice on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Driving the Deep (Finder Chronicles #2)
by Suzanne Palmer
May 5th, 2020 DAW

Fergus Ferguson is a lost boy with a talent for finding things…no matter where in the galaxy they wind up. Granted, he’s not been a boy for quite a while, but his childhood traumas still haunt him — an abusive mother and a father that committed suicide in front of him — and that’s bound to leave a mark.

He ran away from Scotland when he was old enough to steal an older cousin’s motorcycle, and it’s been hanging over his head ever since. Though he’s built a career, and a reputation, as a sort of galactic repo man and troubleshooter, been captured and changed by aliens, and found a group of friends at the edge of the Solar System that he’d do anything for, it’s his past that he can’t get past. Continue reading →

Three Contemporary Fantasies: A Cowgirl, a Ranger, and a Flower Arranger Walk Into Weirdness

I don’t read a lot of fantasy, but there are a few books I love. Kim Antieau’s Coyote Cowgirl, Tim Pratt’s debut novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and Richard Grant’s In the Land of Winter. Even though I have all three in hardcover, I have them in eBook version too, except for Grant’s, because that’s not available. Which is why I’ve read most of Kim Antieau’s work, a fair amount of Tim Pratt’s, and only one of Richard Grant’s. Continue reading →