Else what's a heaven for?

1) The Queen's Weapons, Anne Bishop (electronic)
2) The Burning Maze, Rick Riordan (electronic)
3) Tangled Webs, Anne Bishop (electronic, re-read)
4) The Tyrant's Tomb, Rick Riordan (electronic)
5) The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang (electronic)
6) The Tower of Nero, Rick Riordan (electronic)
7) Whip Smart, Melissa Febos (electronic)
8) The Sun and the Star, Rick Riordan (electronic)
9) Call Me Irresistible, Susan Elizabeth Phillips (electronic)
10) The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman (electronic)
11) Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor
12) The Book of V., Anna Solomon (electronic)
13) The Spy, Paulo Coelho
14) The Secret Chord, Geraldine Brooks (electronic)
15) Simply the Best, Susan Elizabeth Phillips (electronic)
15) Horse, Geraldine Brooks (electronic)
16) Rivers of London: Deadly Ever After, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Celeste Bronfman (electronic)
17) The Lady in Glass and Other Stories, Anne Bishop (electronic)
18) Camp Jupiter Classified, Rick Riordan
19) People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry (electronic)
20) Max in the House of Spies, Adam Gidwitz (electronic)
21) The Way of the Hive, Jay Hosler (electronic)
22) Certain to Win, Chet Richards (electronic)
23) The Demigods of Olympus, Rick Riordan (electronic)
24) My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (electronic)
25) Appetites & Vices, Felicia Grossman (electronic)
26) The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante (electronic)
27) Master of Change, Brad Stulberg (electronic)
28) Recipe for Adventure: Naples, Giada De Laurentiis (electronic)
29) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante (electronic)
30) The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante (electronic)
31) The Thieves of Ostia, Caroline Lawrence (electronic)
32) The Secrets of Vesuvius, Caroline Lawrence (electronic)
33) The Pirates of Pompeii, Caroline Lawrence (electronic)
34) The Assassins of Rome, Caroline Lawrence (electronic)
35) Death Comes as the End, Agatha Christie (electronic)
36) The Lion's Den, Katherine St. John
37) Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, Julia Quinn (electronic)
38) A Queen from the North, Erin McRae, Racheline Maltese (electronic, re-read)
39) Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett
40) So Sweet, Rebekah Weatherspoon (electronic)
41) What My Bones Know, Stephanie Foo (electronic)
42) Meegan, Rebekah Weatherspoon (electronic)
43) One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston (electronic, re-read)
44) A Place at the Table, Saadia Faruqi, Laura Shovan (electronic)
45) The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper, Timothy Foote
46) Ant Story, Jay Hosler (electronic)
47) The Chalice of the Gods, Rick Riordan (electronic, re-read)
48) Operation Bethlehem, Yariv Inbar (electronic)
49) Spy School at Sea, Stuart Gibbs (electronic)
50) Wrath of the Triple Goddess, Rick Riordan (electronic)
51) Big Bad Ironclad, Nathan Hale (electronic)
52) Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (electronic)
53) Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch (electronic, re-read)
54) 1% Leadership, Andy Ellis (electronic)
55) Make Your Bed, Adm. William H. McRaven (electronic)
56) The Wright 3, Blue Balliett
57) Dead Ice, Laurell K. Hamilton (electronic)
58) The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, Omer Friedlander
59) The Last Interview, Eshkol Nevo (electronic)
60) Miss Amelia’s List, Mercedes Lackey (electronic)

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Delia Falconer: The West didn’t invent the opium trade… Instead — as with the Atlantic coast traffic in human beings — it took a pre-existing practice and expanded it exponentially. -February 13, 2024

Margo Jefferson: Memoir is your present negotiating with versions of your past for a future you're willing to show up in.

Jennifer Weiner: Hazell’s prose is as tart and icy as lemon sorbet; her sentences are whipcord taut, drum tight. The only time she indulges in description is when Piglet’s cooking or eating. Then, the writing becomes lush and lavish, with mouthwatering descriptions. -February 22, 2024

Sloan Crosley: We were not depressed all the time, no. Sometimes we were drunk.

Ashley C. Ford: In Afterward, she comes to understand this realization could have been Perreault’s ultimate desire for her — maybe he wanted her to know that at some point, you have to face the feral emotion you’ve been locking in a cage and distracting with a funny bone. You have to face your life, and your dead, so that you may live. -2/28/24

Courtney Milan: It helps me to think of the act of planning as something like a hobby of writing alternate universe fan fiction about a more competent version of myself.

Susan Sontag: To love someone was to tolerate imperfections one would never excuse in oneself.

Mistress Mary Poppins: Stop parallel pathing so many tasks so you can drop the one you like the least. -March 21, 2024

Brad Stulberg: If you expect and predict life to be hard, then you won’t be surprised when it is—which in and of itself makes life easier, and also improves your chances of finding equanimity and meaning amidst change and struggle.

Maureen Dowd: Even Ms. von Furstenberg’s sartorial creation was at cross-purposes, designed to let women be sexy and practical. It had no zipper, she said, so that you could slip out of lover’s room without waking him — “just like a man.” It was a dress to seduce a man while impressing his mother. -6/6/24

David Brooks: journalists go into this business to inform and provoke, but many outlets have found they can generate clicks by telling partisan viewers how right they are about everything. Minute after minute they’re rubbing their audience’s pleasure centers, which feels like a somewhat older profession. -9/5/24

Jackson McHenry: Also, most of the people in Elsbeth’s New York have a Drama Desk nomination. -March 1, 2024

Michael J. Fox: life gets better the more you decide to take it easy on yourself