Consortium of Seven

 Welcome to Thursday, everyone.  Time to see what random nonsense I picked up at thrift stores, resale shops and Little Free Libraries this week.   Laurell K. Hamilton is a nice author from Missouri who generally writes a lot of urban vampire and shapeshifter novels set in the St. Louis area, but I'm more a fan of these, the Merry Gentry novels.  They're set in a world where the Seelie and the Unseelie Courts have always been visible to humanity and they were essentially expelled from Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, taking refuge under the Thomas Jefferson administration in the serpent mounts of Missouri as long as they kept fairly quiet.  But now Merry, who is both Unseelie and Brownie, is starting to wake up the old magic and that opens a whole raft of political troubles in the fairy and the human worlds. Also, there's a lot  of sex.  Like, Damn. I'm an absolute sucker for exploration stories, and one of the weird joys of Hidden Figures ...

 Howdy folks!     My apologies for the lateness of today’s entry but I was having having computer and other issues.  But to start with, enjoy these plush pumpkins I found today.  Aren't they adorable? Second in this week's bounty, a nice box set of the Hunger Games paperbacks.   I already had them in various editions, but I'm a sucker for a matched set of things.  And besides, it may be a time for a reread on these; I haven't touched them since the last movie came out and that's almost five years ago now.  (There is apparently a prequel novel out now but hey, I think I'm good when it comes to that. I've been watching the new Star Trek: Lower Decks show on CBS All Access (very funny and not just relying on Trek in-jokes), and I realized that I simply do not own this, the best Trek movie.  So this was a welcome find today so I can relive my childhood of watching Shatner and Montalban snarl at each other for 90+ minutes.  This is rea...