![Latinx Book Bingo Wrap Up [Reviews]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Latinx-Book-Bingo-2020-results.jpg?fit=1080%2C1920&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Results 🐠 = What if a Fish by Anika Fajardo Partially set in Colombia 🏚️ = Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Recommended by Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense 💄 = Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore MC Chicky is Mexican-American and pansexual 💔 = Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisteros Partially set in Mexico Though Efrén is not an immigrant, I consider his story in this book to […]
![Silver in the Wood [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/silver-in-the-wood.jpg?fit=297%2C475&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets […]
What You Should Know Who Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-thon is, AFAIK, the longest running event in the book blogging community. It’s named for its founder Dewey, who blogged at The Other Side of the Leaf. She hosted the first Read-a-thon back in 2007. Dewey passed away in 2008. From 2013 to April 2020, Andi @ Estella’s Revenge and Heather @ Capricious Reader hosted the Read-a-thon. Now it’s in the hands […]
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Preamble I don’t usually post tiny reviews. However, this year I’ve been making at least a few notes on everything I read. So, here’s a compilation of some of those little notes to make one ‘regular’ length review post. Titles link to Goodreads. MG Reviews The Sisters of Straygarden Place by Hayley Chewins I received a free copy from the publisher via Netgalley. Did not work for me at all […]
![Can You Trust Your Shadow? [MG Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/shadow-weaver.jpg?fit=318%2C463&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Emmeline’s gift of controlling shadows has isolated her from the rest of the world, but she’s grown to be content, hidden away in her mansion with Dar, her own shadow, as her only company. Disaster strikes when a noble family visits their home and offers to take Emmeline away and cure her of magic. Desperate not to lose her shadows, she turns to Dar who proposes a deal: Dar will […]