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My book “reviews” and recommendations. 📚 On average, I read about 75 new-to-me books per year.

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Books Posted onJanuary 20, 2020January 22, 2020

Top 5 Books Read in 2019

The top 5 books I read during 2019. Also includes a list of honorable mentions.

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Books Posted onSeptember 28, 2019September 23, 2019

Upcoming Releases: Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

Tagline: They owe their lives to their ship. But maybe they also owe the ship its life. “The Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey…

book cover The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Books Posted onSeptember 21, 2019

Upcoming Releases: The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

“When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in…

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Books Posted onJuly 31, 2019September 24, 2019

Top 5 Books Read in 2018

This year’s Top 5 includes only fiction by women, ranging from dystopias – in a world where reproductive rights no longer exist; where human women…

Magical New Year 2017
Books Posted onJanuary 1, 2018September 23, 2019

Top 5 Books Read in 2017

This year’s Top 5 includes a novel that mixes horror and folklore to center the story of a grief-stricken, book-loving new father in his search…

Books Posted onDecember 27, 2017September 16, 2019

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire

Rating: 2.5 of 5 “As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage’s tale of a newly-hatched,…

Books Posted onMarch 31, 2017September 16, 2019

Eleanor by Jason Gurley

Rating: 4.5 of 5 Now available in paperback. Eleanor is the story of one woman’s choice and its ripple effects across the lives of her…

Books Posted onJanuary 23, 2017September 16, 2019

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana EnrĂ­quez

Rating: 3 of 5 Coming soon! February 21, 2017 Available to pre-order now. A collection of short stories set in Argentina, filled with macabre imagery…

Books Posted onJanuary 22, 2017September 16, 2019

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison

Rating: 3.5 of 5 “Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you’ve ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you’ve ever…

Books Posted onJanuary 21, 2017September 16, 2019

Changing Woman and Her Sisters by Katrin Hyman Tchana

Rating: 5 of 5 From the same mother-daughter team who brought us The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women. You won’t find the…

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