This week’s theme is bookish people I'd like to meet. This can be authors, book characters, book bloggers, whatever as long as they have a bookish connection. But meeting new people makes me nervous and uncomfortable and I have to hype myself up a TON beforehand to do it, so I'm not even pretending to do that. Instead, we are going to discuss the next ten main characters I should be meeting to stay on top of my Netgalley requests. (To be clear, these are all going to be books I have not yet started, so they won't be the next ten books I review necessarily.) Here we go.
Sasha Severn in The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton
Merlin in The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
Juliet Arroway in The Syndicate Spy by Brittany Butler
Ryne Burdette in The Broken Places by Blaine Daigle
Maria Wallner in Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller
Heike in Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia
Ren Monroe in A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen
Winifred in Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Freddy Peach in Frozen Peaches by Erin Soderberg Downing
Peeraphan Rahttana in Wings Once Cursed and Bound by Piper J. Drake
There we go, ten main characters that I should be meeting before the middle of April (YIKES) to stay caught up with my Netgalley books. This doesn't include Clytemnestra (which I'm almost finished with now) Dissonance by Barbara Burt (which I'm about 10% into) and Hitler's Aristocrats (which I'm also about 10% into) because I've already started them. Dissonance is already overdue but I grabbed it as a read now anyway, so I feel much less guilty about that at this point.
So who are some bookish people you want to meet? If you're stopping by from the linkup, please leave a link to your post. I typically can't return visits until the weekend, so those links really help me make sure I get to your blog to check out your lists too. - Katie
Nice spin on the topic - and an interesting mix of genres; looks like you're going to be a busy reader for a while! :)
ReplyDeleteTerrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
I read in all genres, although I usually go through phases with what's interesting to me...but I've been playing a lot of Netgalley Request Roulette for Top Ten Tuesday so that brings me more varied genres in a short span of time. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
DeleteIt looks like you have some interesting characters to look forward to meeting!
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/bookish-tea-party-guest-list/
I've actually managed to finish with Sasha and moved onto Merlin (although I haven't actually met him yet as I just started that book earlier in the car with my husband). Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
DeleteI just read a great review for The Last Beekeeper. I would be intimidated by that one, but it sounds like a great read. Hope you get to meet the characters soon.
ReplyDeleteI was peer pressured into requesting it by my Facebook wife even though she KNOWS my Netgalley backlog is enormous. I actually just finished reading it this morning. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
DeleteI also want to read The Sinisters Booksellers of Bath. Honestly seeing this list reminds me of why I stopped doing Netgalley, much as I enjoyed getting to read books early, it was a little stressful having to read books to a deadline and I almost always posted my reviews well after the book's publication date!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/top-ten-tuesday-410/
I've been doing pretty well with keeping up on my Netgalley books so far this year (I've got 6 books that reviews are past due right now, but two of them I just need to write the reviews and they only released on Tuesday, so I'm not super behind, and two others I got as read-nows after their release date to begin with so...) Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
DeleteGreat take on the topic. Here is my post-https://paigesofnovels.com/2023/03/07/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-people-i-want-to-meet/.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It felt like a bit of a scramble but I just can't be requesting more books on Netgalley right now as I'm already behind at this point. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
DeleteI think Beekeeper looks fun, and I just saw one on another blog too!
ReplyDeleteI just finished it this morning. It's dystopian that doesn't feel too far in the future. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
DeleteSo much social anxiety. I have to hype myself up if I know I'm going to be meeting new people for the first time and impromptu plans with people I'm not already comfortable around are not things I agree to. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie
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