Special guest on the blog today! You might know my sister from Ash from her contributions to Family Reads. While we have some overlap in our taste in books, Ash has a different variety of books and way of organizing them. I love the aesthetic of her bookcases. So, here is a bookshelf tour by someone who is a book lover but not a book blogger. Regular text is my […]
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Just South of Home by Karen Strong Format/source: ARC/ALA MidwinterPublished: 7 May 2019 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersLength: 320 pages Genre: Middle grade speculative fiction#OwnVoices: Black girl living in southern USA ★★★★ Twelve-year-old Sarah is finally in charge. At last, she can spend her summer months reading her favorite science books and bossing around her younger brother, Ellis, instead of being worked to the bone by their […]
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Format/source: ARC/NetgalleyPublished: 7 May 2019 Publisher: Tor.comLength: 528 pages Genre: Speculative fiction ★★★★★ I received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power […]
Hello! Remember me? I took an impromptu hiatus in April. I had planned to start posting again on April 12 (the due date of my final assignment) but I let job applications and interviews eat up another week of my time. At that point, my blogging schedule was shot. So, I decided to take the entire month off and instead focus on scheduling ahead for May. I’ve been blogging for […]