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Sep 18, 2020

Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences...

Sep 10, 2020

Review of Beach Read by Emily Henry

Beach Read is a gem for your light fiction-escapism-pandemic-era reading list.

Sep 9, 2020

Review of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

Aug 30, 2020

Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.

Aug 27, 2020

Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger

I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.

Aug 26, 2020

Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis

ear Emmie Blue is satisfying, heartwarming escapism without inspiring any irritation at too-convenient or outlandish events.

Aug 20, 2020

My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads

01 The Vanishing Half 02 Florence Adler Swims Forever 03 Blacktop Wasteland 04 Utopia Avenue 05 When These Mountains Burn 06 This Is All He

Aug 20, 2020

Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at...

Aug 17, 2020

Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal, and an odd twist on hope.

Aug 11, 2020

Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

Aug 10, 2020

Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love

01 Ink & Sigil: Ink & Sigil Series In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new Ink & Sigil series, patterns and inks have power; hobgoblins...

Aug 1, 2020

Six Captivating Nordic Stories

Six books in Nordic settings to knock your socks off.

Jul 23, 2020

Review of When These Mountains Burn by David Joy

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction in which bubbles of hope emerge.

Jul 19, 2020

Review of Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) by Martha Wells

Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans.

Jul 18, 2020

Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

Bug is forced to consider what loyalty means, and he must face a potentially dark path ahead.

Jul 16, 2020

Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.

Jul 15, 2020

Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

In The Vanishing Half, Bennett explores the complicated implications of perception as reality when it comes to race.

Jul 14, 2020

Review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

Mitchell expertly builds the band members into rich characters you're rooting for. More very welcome David Mitchell universe madness.

Jul 14, 2020

Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes

Jul 8, 2020

Review of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

In A Woman Is No Man, Rum explores the often powerless and voiceless status of her conservative Palestinian female characters.

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