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I've read my fair share of Dutch originals now... time to get back to DCC as I slowly but surely plow through the series! Let's go with book number three!

My best friend wrote a book and I have no idea what to expect. Let's just try!

Let's continue this foray into Dutch SFF! Because I'm a bit behind on my target there. I'm sharing a stand with Robin Rozendal next week on Thursday, so I figured, might as well read the first book so that I'm well-informed. Let's go...

... And let's continue that Correspondent read- through...

I'm a bit behind my Correspondent books. Let's fix that...

I had a break that lasted two books, simply because I wanted to catch up on my Dutch reading - but now that break is over and I HAVE to know just how the duology ends. So, let's go!

Met the author of this book at the Middag van het Fantastische Boek. I'd already bought his book because I heard he was a therapist, as am I. Wonderful guy - he ended up buying my book after and said that part of this book would be familiar as it deals with crystals - just like how my book Corruption does. Let's find out how I'm going to like his work, I hope he likes mine!

As I'm currently back at my horror novel, it's time to continue into that genre, preferably in the same language I'm writing in, and thankfully, Thomas Olde Heuvelt fills that vacuum perfectly. Haven't read this one yet, so here goes. I plan on reading it during broad daylight as much as I can.

I'd wanted to read something queer and thought last week's book was that, but I was wrong - probably a misunderstanding when I bought it.
So let's read something that is so queer, just from the back text, that there's no way I misunderstood that.
Here we go!

I wanna read something short, Dutch, queer and fantasy!
And if you thought this is impossible to attain; so did I, until I went to the MACCnificent fair yesterday, and apparently this book ticks all the boxes.
So, let's see if it does so well enough. Let's go!

The streak of psychological literature continues - don't worry, my next book will be fun again.
That's a joke, because this book is just as much fun as a work of fiction, and perhaps in some cases, even moreso. I'm already having a blast. Oh, and I'm reading a Dutch edition, Goodreads doesn't have this one and I can't be bothered to add one.
Anyway. Let's go...

Time to get back to work books! I have two from the library waiting for me, so here goes...

Time to continue my read through Carl's series, and here is book two. I liked book one, let's see if book two tops it.

Time to get back to my own language... and the genre I'm writing in. Yes, here we go, back to Dutch horror!

I LOVED So This Is Ever After, so time to delve some more in F.T. Lukens. I really need to read more queer romantasy and I've been told Lukens is a very good place to start. Let's see if this book holds up too...

Wait, what? Alexander, I knew you were interested in history, but I thought that was either pre-colonial history of natives or ancient Mesopotamian history. What's this?! Calm down you imaginary person. I was asked to write a weird western for an anthology, and I'm excited to get there - but I want to write about the actual Wild West, and not the theme park version. This is research for that. So. Let's go...

My husband is OBSESSED with this series - we now have the first four books in our house, and yet I haven't read any of them. Let's see if my husband has good taste. (Spoiler: he has not, he married me after all ;) )

Time to get back to Dutch work! After all I have the reading goal of reading 20 Dutch originals this year, so I better get to it. Read a little booklet in this series that I got after Eurocon, haven't read the series itself yet. Let's change that now...

Will this insatiable urge to read more queer YA ever stop? Probably not, but that's not a bad thing. Let's go...

I love reading about ancient history! And when I say ancient, don't come to me with modern shizzle like the Romans or the Greeks. No, I mean ANCIENT. Sumerians, Babylonians, Etruscans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Minoans, Puntians, all welcome. It's an itch that is sometimes hard to scratch, but I think this book should help. Let's go...

Back to some Dutch goodness! Because if I want to read 20 Dutch originals this year, I gotta do some work. Let's go...

Time for something queer! I think? Always a bit of a guess with Alire Sáenz. It'll probably still be fun, though. I'm reading in translation, which is something I usually don't mind doing but I'm a bit worried now as I don't know if the original poetic language translates well. I guess we'll have to find out!

Second time in a row that I read about angels with a sci-fi twist. Huh.

I read one Dutch novel so far, and one English classic translated to Dutch - time to complete the trilogy and read a book in English too. There's still some unread Space Wizard-books on my shelves, so it's time to read another work from a colleague. Here goes...

I took one more week off from work because I have a book coming out soon, but thankfully said book isn't taking that much time from me. Which means, LOTS of time to write AND read! And here's the next book I hope to devour during my reading/writing week. Hope it'll be finished soon! :)

Oké, de openingszin is KILLER

The lovely thing about meeting your reading goal a few days ahead of time is that you can read whatever you want without worrying whether it's going to impact the goal. So, here's Sterrenduister, a thicker book I've been a little scared of opening because I didn't want to run behind. Now, I have allllll the time in the world... so let's go, and I'm reading whenever I WANT to.

Been a hot minute since I read some quick, easy, queer YA, and I'm eager to call it a year and meet my 70 book-goal. Thankfully there's one queer YA book I forgot to reread during my queer YA-spree earlier this year, so it's time to dive into that one now and get out of the funny number and into the made the goal-number. Let's go!

Waves Take Your Bones took me out of the Awful Meme Number, now let's get into the Funny Number instead. I'm still emotional because some private stuff is going on, so I'm sticking with some thin books so that I'll be sure to get to my goal this year. Isaac is the next one in my package from Space Wizard, so let's go have some fun...

Time to continue my foray into the world of Space Wizard Science Fantasy! Because if it's queer SFF, I want it, and SWSF doesn't publish anything else. Let's go...