Author: Jenna @ Falling Letters

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook [Non-Fiction Review]

16 March 2025 / review / 7 Comments
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook [Non-Fiction Review]

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn CookSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: July 2024Publisher: Crown (PRH)Length: 250 pages Genre: NonfictionTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +15)Representation: One family profiled is Black Summary 💬 “SHED MY DNA”: three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life. QAnon beliefs and adjacent conspiracy theories have had devastating political consequences […]

Rating 19 Books I Read in 2024 But Didn’t Review

9 March 2025 / list / 6 Comments
Rating 19 Books I Read in 2024 But Didn’t Review

Near the end of January, I remembered I wrote a post like this in Jan 2024 for all the 2023 books I read but didn’t review. It seems like a good idea, so even though it’s taken me a minute to finally pull it together, I’m knocking one out another one for 2024. This is a low stakes post – a simple list of the books I read but didn’t […]

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar [Fantasy Review]

5 March 2025 / review / 12 Comments
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar [Fantasy Review]

The River Has Roots by Amal El-MohtarSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 4 Mar. 2025Publisher: Tordotcom (Macmillan)Length: 144 pages Genre: Folk fantasyTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +13)Representation: Love interest is a nonbinary fairy Summary 💬 In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than […]

February 2025 Month in Review

2 March 2025 / month in review / 15 Comments
February 2025 Month in Review

February is my birthday month. I received hardcovers of R.F. Kuang’s Babel and Seanan McGuire’s Tidal Creatures. I’m not sure how I missed acquiring a hard copy of Tidal Creatures last year but glad to have one now! I’m preparing to do some light rearranging of my bookshelves, in order to accommodate the collection growth of recent years (including 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth that I recently ordered […]

The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard [Family Reads]

28 February 2025 / family reads / 4 Comments
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard [Family Reads]

Why we chose Scott Alexander Howard’s The Other Valley We originally had a different book selected for this month’s Family Reads. Dad had started reading that other book but found it disinteresting. When he was over at my place one day, he picked up The Other Valley, which I had checked out from the library. He read the description and ended up taking the book home with him. I’m not […]