I always thought True Crime wasn’t for me, until I read The Feather Thief last year. It turns out, I just don’t want to read about serial killers. Give me a book about a weird little guy stealing things, and I’m all in.
Tag: book bingo 2024
Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
I’m not going to talk a lot about the details of this book, because that would involve spoiling certain things about the first book, and I’d really like you to consider reading that if you haven’t already.
Book Review: Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall
If you were a Horse Girl like me growing up, you probably read at least half a dozen books were a young person finds and rescues a seriously neglected horse, nurses them back to health, and then goes on to win a race or similar competition. This book is like that, but with a donkey.
Book Review: Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Untamed Shore is a thriller-tinged coming of age story set in 1970s Baja, California. As is the case with all of Moreno-Garcia’s books, there’s a really strong sense of place, so that the setting feels almost like a character in its own right.
Book Review: Red Paint by Sasha LaPointe
In my last review, I complained that it was hard to think of a genre I’ve never read. I feel like few things better illustrate the fact that I read widely than the fact that the next book I finished after that Light Novel was a memoir about generational trauma, punk music, and bad relationship decisions set right here in Washington.
Book Review: Ascendance of a Bookworm, Part 1, Vol 1 by Miya Kazuki
I chose this book for a very specific book bingo related reason, and if not for that, I would have DNFed it after the first few pages. I hope that this will be the worst book that I read in 2024, and that things will only get better from here.
Book Review: Mythos by Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry has a voice that is made for audiobook narrating. I mean, not only is his voice pleasant in its timbre, but he puts his acting chops to work and brings real emotion to what he’s reading.
Book Review: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan enticed me from the moment I saw it on a list of anticipated 2024 releases. I was really looking forward to reading it, and it was in fact the first new release I read this year.
Book Review: I Know What I Am by Gina Siciliano
I was excited to pick this up during the 2022 Seattle Indie Bookstore Day promotion, because I wanted to read it and I was pretty confident it would be easy to fit into that year/s SAL/SPL Book Bingo. I mean, it was by a local author, it was a graphic novel, it was about history, art, a trial, it had elements of feminism, it was from a local publisher… and yet somehow I couldn’t fit it into a single dang square.
Book Review: The Marquis Who Mustn’t by Courtney Milan
Historical romance is a pretty hit or miss genre for me. Courtney Milan is an author in that arena who I generally like, because her books often focus on less-represented groups of people, she does a lot of research, and I’ve just enjoyed what I’ve read from her so far.