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Month: October 2025

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

Book Review: Dead & Breakfast by Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor

When the bigoted sheriff accuses Sal of the murder, Arthur decides he has to clear his husband’s name. Of course he does, otherwise we wouldn’t have a cozy mystery on our hands!

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October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

Book Review: A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann Rose

You know how every year, around August, Spirit Halloween seems to just suddenly appear in the most convenient empty store front in your town? Well, what if it was literally magic?

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October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

Book Review: The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Tan does a great job of conveying the confusion of being in a strange land by making the land strange to the reader as well.

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October 13, 2025October 16, 2025

Book Review: Trees by Kelsey Oseid

It’s a sad fact of growing up that in general, the older you get, the less illustrations your books have. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

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October 10, 2025October 10, 2025

HRCYED: I Completed the Non-Fiction Challenge Square!

Those who know me, or who have looked at my archive here, will not be terribly surprised that the Non-Fiction Challenge square is the first prompt I finished for the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do. In fact, I joined the challenge in Sept but (as is allowed) retroactively counted some books I read after…

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October 9, 2025October 9, 2025

I’m doing HRCYED 2!

Why am I doing this challenge? Uh, because a friend of mine mentioned it and I can’t resist a reading challenge, that’s why!

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October 7, 2025October 7, 2025

Book Review: Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark

Just the right sort of book to read while inside, under a blanket, with a hot beverage, while you occasionally sigh wistfully and stare off into the rain, dreaming of the fens and forbidden love.

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October 5, 2025October 5, 2025

Book Review: Slippery Beast by Ellen Ruppel Shell

You get weird reactions when you tell people you’re reading a book about eels.

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October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Book Review: Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

I’ve long-since established that I don’t like enemies to lovers. But rivals to lovers? Yeah, that’s the stuff.

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October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

Book Review: Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Roach has a really endearing combination of curiosity and self-depreciating humor. She’s not afraid to make herself look silly by asking very smart and accomplished people the most ridiculous questions you’ve ever secretly had about their work.

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