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September 5, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

This novel is pure epistolary; while some books advertised as epistolaries intersperse more narrative chapters between the correspondence, everything in this book happens in a letter or other communication.

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September 2, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: Triple Sec by TJ Alexander

Triple Sec by AJ Alexander is a romance about a bartender which actually, gets this, has scenes of the main character tending bar and coming up with new cocktail recipes.

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September 1, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Housing is a human right. We all just want to find a home where we feel safe and can build a life worth living.

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August 31, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

Am I even capable of writing an intelligent review of a T. Kingfisher book? I feel like I turn into a caveman when talking about her works: “Book good. You read now!”

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August 26, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: Weird Women edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger

Sometimes, when choosing books for Book Bingo, I make bad decisions.

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August 15, 2024August 17, 2024

Book Review: The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay

An audiobook of essayettes is so perfect for shorter drives, because when each chapter is only a few minutes long, you don’t have to leave off mid-chapter and then try to remember where you were when you get back into the car.

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August 14, 2024August 14, 2024

Book Review: Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard

Sometimes a novella is just the right length, and sometimes it’s too short. Now you know that if that’s the line I’m opening with, this book was just too short to tell the story it wanted to tell.

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August 14, 2024August 14, 2024

Book Review: There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari

I just don’t think this story is as compelling as the author thinks it is.

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August 12, 2024August 17, 2024

Book Review: Dear Body edited by Lea Bordier

Living in this world in a body that was assigned female at birth brings a lot of both challenges and delights, and Dear Body edited by Lea Bordier shares twelve stories of different AFAB experiences.

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August 12, 2024August 12, 2024

Book Review: The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

A lot of the romance I’ve read this year has leaned more in a rom-commy direction, so it was oddly refreshing to read The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett and be hit with a heavy but not overwhelming amount of angst.

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