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 […]
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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 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 […]
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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 […]
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Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods Source: ebook/publisherPublished: 18 Feb. 2025Publisher: Tor Books (Macmillan)Length: 432 pages Genre: Historical fantasyTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +15) Summary 💬 Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758.For Lucinde Leon, the youngest daughter of one of Saint-Malo’s wealthiest ship-owners, the high walls of the city are more hindrance than haven. While her sisters are interested in securing advantageous marriages, Luce dreams of escaping her elegant but stifling home and joining a […]