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Have figured that if I read 2 works a month the Alcott Readathon will end in September.

That is, February - Moods and A Long Fatal Love Chase (if only I hadn't read it last year)

March - Little Women and Good Wives (get it?)

April - An Old-Fashioned Girl and Little Men

May - Work and Transcendental Wild Oats

June - Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom

July - A Modern Mephistopheles and Under the Lilacs

August - Diana and Persis and Jack and Jill

September - Moods revised and Jo's Boys

Right now I'm reading Raising Steam slowly. I love Moist but the book isn't engaging me.

The first book you read in 2017:
Hamilton: the Revolution

The last book you finished in 2017:
Am I Blue, the first gay/lesbian YA anthology.

The first book you will finish (or did finish!) in 2018:
The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott

How many books read in 2017?
Let's count all the American Girl Julie books as one and say 63.

Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?
4 non-fiction. Hamiltome, Alcott's letters, Jane Austen's Names, and Hidden Figures.
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What I finished reading this week:

Night Watch. I really enjoyed meeting the younger versions of Sam and Vetinari. And very briefly Sybil - Sybil is such an underused character.

What I'm reading now

The Wee Free Men, which was the first Pratchett book I ever read back in 2009 or 2010. It's actually even better than I remember. Tiffany is SO WONDERFUL. There are so many good lines:

"Eight inches. Why didn't they just say?"

"Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short."

"I'm not familiar. I'm just slightly presumptuous."

"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star, you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."

What I'm reading next:

Thick as Thieves since it just came in at the library.

And I saw the first butterfly of the year.

Have finished Hogfather, which is book 20 of 41, so now I am halfway through. Next up is Jingo. I hope Sybil is in it; she wasn't in Feet of Clay.

What I read this week

I had an urge to reread Issola by Brust, which is my favorite of the series because of the constant interaction between the relationships I like best, Vlad and the Dragons. It has particularly excellent dialogue, and I confess I kind of ship Vlad/Teldra. How can I not when he notices her dimples?

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I only wish the library had Iorich so I could reread that one.

What I'm reading now
The Discworld journey continues with Small Gods. It started out slow, but it picked up once Brutha and Vorbis got to Ephebe. Brutha is adorable and Fri'it is interesting.

Although Pratchett does like the sheltered, good-hearted, sexually inexperienced young man. I'm not saying Mort, Nijel, Victor, Teppic, Carrot, and Brutha are the same character, but they are variations on a theme. On the other hand it's a character type I generally like and one Pratchett writes super well. EDIT: Okay, Teppic isn't sheltered, but he's pure of heart.

I love that CMOT Dibbler shows up, and I was pleased that Djelibeybi was mentioned.

What I'm reading next

READING ABOUT SUSAN STO HELIT, FINALLY.

You know how you pronounce a word wrong because you've only ever read it in a book? Yeah, I learned from last week's episode of Outlander that the s in viscount is silent.

(I'm not watching the show – just that one episode. I couldn't resist young John; he's one of my all-time favorite characters.)

Right now I'm reading Reaper Man, the second Death book, which is very good so far. The “esprit de corpse” joke made me laugh out loud. I thought Susan would be in it but turns out she doesn't appear until Soul Music. So I have that to look forward too.