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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is Books I Hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes. I’m adapting that to 2023 Releases Still on My TBR. I have not read many 2023 releases! That being said, I would like to note I have achieved the minor sucess of having read six of the ten titles I highlighted back in my January post “Most Anticipated Books Releasing Jan – Jun 2023“. But there remain so […]
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Babelby R.F. KuangSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Aug 2022Publisher: Harper Voyager (HarperCollins)Length: 544 pages Genre: Historical fantasyTarget Age: +18Representation: Protagonist is Chinese ‘adopted’ by white British man, key side characters incl a Black Haitian woman and an Indian Muslim man Summary 💬 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll […]
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Recently, I read two middle grade books back to back which rekindled my excitement of the genre. Both felt like fresh new creative stories – different from anything I’ve read before. Middle grade has only just started fluorishing in the past 10 years. There are so many diverse stories waiting to be told! And I don’t even mean diverse in terms of “the characters have different identities”! I mean it […]
#23’s Result – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Well! Piranesi turned out to be just what I expected, and also not at all what I expected. The cover, description, and initial pages gave me the impression this would be historical fiction. It isn’t, but that is mostly a moot point. What I didn’t expect was how neatly this would fit into the dark academia genre. When I first read this book’s […]
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Source: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 10 Oct 2023Publisher: Berkley (PRH)Length: 256 pagesI received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. Series: The Travelling Cat Chronicles companionGenre: FictionTarget Age: Adult (suitable for 13+)Translator: Jay Gabriel How do you feel about anthropomorphized animal stories? Do you have a favourite animal tale?