Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

I've decided to just start at the very end of my Kindle library, my oldest books, and work forward. Amazon has decided to stop supporting .mobi book formats, its own format, and I have 300 of them on my Kindle, so newer ones have to wait.

Where the Plains Merge with the Sky by Patty Jansen. While this wasn't an awful story, I only finished it because it was so short. Set on another planet, a girl was born a farmer, but she had a gift for music and chafed at farm life. The only interesting (and way way too briefly explained) part was that every farmer bonds with a "subhuman" -- a race made from crossing humans with some native alien animal. I wish the whole story had been about them instead of about the girl, the whole subhuman thing was described in one short sentence.

DNF

30) Penric's Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold. I love her writing and I know I liked the series this novella was from, but I last read it in 2016. I had no idea who the characters were anymore, setting, or anything else. Sadly the story was wasted on me.

31) Other Worlds: Beast World by George Ivanoff. This is one of the worst books I've read in a long time. A MG book, so aimed at young readers, it did that awful thing where adults just stopped existing in the middle of scenes. For example, the kids found a magic doorway. Teacher (standing next to them) said not to touch it. The kids went on to have a long conversation about going through, one went towards it, the other followed. They talked more about going through, one reached to touch it and went through and after a moment the other followed. But all that time, the teacher (after saying the one line telling them not to go through) just stopped existing. It had a bunch of other problems as well. The book would only have taken an hour to read, but I still only got through a third of it before dropping it.

32) Notes from the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone. Not an awful story, but set in the real world and kind of dull. In it, the Internet vanished. Poof. No more email, websites, nothing online. How does a man maintain a social life in that kind of situation? The bar visits and small talk were just too boring to keep reading about.

33) Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer. Ugh. I've said before "I have no idea how this book got onto my Kindle", but in this case I mean that in bold text and underlined. This book was opposite of what I enjoy. Set in the real world (but supernatural creatures exist... except they all look human), a mother and daughter team capture, cut up, and sell those "creatures" (people). It was really graphic. Once they captured a small boy and started cutting pieces off him to sell (again, graphic descriptions), I just deleted the whole book. Ugh.