Will I manage to do anything different this week than I did last week? Signs point to NO.

Read: Secrets of the Sword 1-3 (Lindsay Buroker): Continuation of the “Death Before Dragons” series, combining investigation into the provenance of the heroine’s magic sword, foiling of additional villainous plots on various levels, and wedding planning. The wedding planning may be the most harrowing.

Read: “Into the Gray” (Margaret Killjoy): Mermaids, magic, murder, and gender nonconformity.

Read: “Everything That Isn’t Winter” (Margaret Killjoy): Post-apocalyptic anarchism, the assholes who try to wreck it, and those who defend it.

Words: Check.