How Does Seasonal Fears Follow Up to Middlegame? [Review]

27 April 2022 / review / 2 Comments
How Does Seasonal Fears Follow Up to Middlegame? [Review]

Seasonal Fearsby Seanan McGuireSource: ARC/NetGalleyPublished: 10 May 2022Publisher: Tordotcom (Macmillan)Length: 496 pages Series: Alchemical JourneysGenre: Speculative fictionTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +16) Summary 💬 Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fragile; she’s dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn’t want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life […]

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10 New-to-Me Book Bloggers [#BookBloggerSupport22]

4 March 2022 / list / 9 Comments
10 New-to-Me Book Bloggers [#BookBloggerSupport22]

This post is part of Pages Unbound 2022 Support Book Bloggers Challenge, which aims to bring blog readers together “to read blog posts, share them, comment on them, and boost book bloggers in other ways”. Click the link to learn more and find ideas for how you can participate. Introduction I followed a lot of new-to-me blogs in 2020. Then I was largely offline for 2021, so when I started […]

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February 2022 In Review

2 March 2022 / month in review / 14 Comments
February 2022 In Review

I crashed a bit in February, as I usually do, after January’s rush of posts and Cybils reading. The last weekend in February also saw me busy celebrating my birthday (and catching a cold 🤧). But I’m still on track with my Goodreads challenge! So I’m reading books I enjoy, and that’s the only metric that really matters. Hoping this month I can figure out two posts a week, though. […]

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What If I Don’t Read Any New Releases This Year? [Discussion]

20 February 2022 / discussion / 26 Comments
What If I Don’t Read Any New Releases This Year? [Discussion]

Introduction I have already read a 2022 release. I do not actually plan on reading no new releases this year. (If you plan to read no new releases this year, please sound off on how and why in the comments!) Making such a commitment would go against my fundamental principle of reading whatever I want whenever I want. Lest I be called out for clickbaiting – let’s emphasize the ‘what […]

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Speculative Fiction Under 260 Pages: Comfort Me with Apples and The Chosen and the Beautiful [Review]

14 February 2022 / brief reviews / 3 Comments
Speculative Fiction Under 260 Pages: Comfort Me with Apples and The Chosen and the Beautiful [Review]

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Source: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Jun. 2021Publisher: TorDotCom (Macmillan)Length: 260 pages Genre: Historical speculative fictionTarget Age: Adult The Chosen and the Beautiful is one of those books that, the more I thought about it afterwards, the more I came to appreciate it. At the end of 2021, I found myself frequently recommending this title for folks’ 12 in 12 Challenge. In The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo retells The […]

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