What A Kobo Gift Card Gets Me

For awhile now, the top item in the “now” list on my homepage has said, “Reading, reading, reading”—with an exhortation to gift me ebooks which links to sending a Kobo gift card, and since someone bought me a $50 such gift back in June I thought I’d mention what that’s gotten me so far.

Generally, I borrow my ebooks from Libby/OverDrive and only buy ebooks when something in my wishlist goes on sale. So far, that $50 gift card has yielded eleven books.

• The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

• Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor

• Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo

• We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed

• The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

• To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

• The River Judge by S. L. Huang

• Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie

• The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta

• The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte

• Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston

(All of these links save one go to bookshop.org with my affiliate link. I've not yet decided how i want to handle book links here on the revived blog, but for the time being this seemed the easiest thing.)

Six of the eleven I haven’t yet read, and the last $6.11 remaining on the gift card I’m saving to put toward Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer when I’m finished re-reading the first three Southern Reach books, which is what I’m doing for fiction in the month of October.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I do my fiction reading at night when I go to bed, and the wisdom of spending the entire month of Halloween in Area X just before falling asleep every day is a thing I’ll have to judge after the fact.