It's been a rollercoaster. We lost my mother-in-law, although we must have done something right because she never once caught Covid, but she was on her third round with lung cancer and the emphysema was progressive. After almost nine years as a veterinary assistant, I found my way out. The level of burnout I was experiencing is only truly hitting home now that I'm away from the job.
And the most magnificent of year end gifts, I have a new job beginning in 2022, and I can't think of a better place to post about this: I will now be working for the Henrico County Public Library! The Librarian's Child is now himself a librarian.
For the first time, my reading list required me to also use the back of the page in the little notebook where I record this. With all the shiny books that will be staring at me from the shelves this year, I cannot imagine how big this list may grow.
The Classic Illustrated Sherlock Holmes - Sir A.C.Doyle
Dodger - T. Pratchett
Study in Scarlet - Sir A.C.Doyle (yeah this wasn't in the other collection)
Mind Fields - J. Yerka & H. Ellison
The Seventh Bride - T. Kingfisher
The Wee Free Men - T. Pratchett
Hat Full of Sky - T. Pratchett
Wintersmith - T. Pratchett
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
I Shall Wear Midnight - T. Pratchett
The Shepherd's Crown - T. Pratchett
Only You Can Save Mankind - T. Pratchett
A Princess of Mars - Edgar R. Burroughs
The Radium Girls - Kate Moore
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
TAZ: The Crystal Kingdom (comic) - McElroys
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
Waking up Screaming - H.P.Lovecraft
Unnatural Creatures - Various/Editor Neil Gaiman
The Black Hand - Will Thomas
Barnum! in Secret Service to the U.S.A. (comic) - Howard Chaykin
The Rise & Fall of the Gallivanters - M.J. Beaufrand (found at Dollar Store and worth so much more than a dollar!)
Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
Slewfoot - Brom
Everybody has a Podcast (except you) - McElroys
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Storyteller: Ghosts (comic) - Various
The Storyteller: Sirens (comic) - Various
