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Overview Near the end of 2023, I began toying with the idea of doing mini review round ups throughout 2024. I wrote a post in January with all the books I read in 2023 but didn’t review. This idea was basically an attempt to get ahead of having to write one massive post like that for 2024. Thank-you to Annemieke @ A Dance with Books for writing Pocket Reviews and […]
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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clearby Seanan McGuireSource: ebook/NetgalleyPublished: 7 Jan 2025Publisher: Tordotcom (Macmillan)Length: 160 pagesSeries: Wayward Children #10 Genre: Portal fantasyTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +14)Representation: Protagonist is a cross-cultural adoptee (Russian adopted by Americans) and has a limb difference (shortened arm) Now that we’re up to ten installments of the Wayward Children series… which one is your favourite?
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Why we chose M.A. Kuzniar’s Midnight in Everwood Mom selected this book for Family Reads nearly a year ago. She found it while browsing comps for another book she liked. The cover caught her attention. She liked the colour scheme and the gold foil font. The fact that it’s historical fiction with fantasy and winter aspects also appealed to her. I made her wait to read it until December because […]
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The City in Glassby Nghi VoSource: ebook/NetgalleyPublished: Oct 2024Publisher: Tordotcom (Macmillan)Length: 224 pages Genre: FantasyTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +14) Summary 💬 The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot. And then the angels come, and the city falls. Vitrine is left with nothing but […]
Where did November go? It was another one of those months that flew by. Mostly I have been absorbed by work uncertainty. My contract went until Nov 29. On Nov 7, news came down and it suddenly seemed unlikely that my contract would be renewed. On Nov 21, the contract got extended two weeks to Dec 13… now I continue to wait and see what’s next. Maybe I’ll have end […]