Finishing Middlegame Put Me In a Reading Slump Because it is That. Good.[Review]

3 May 2019 / review / 7 Comments
Finishing Middlegame Put Me In a Reading Slump Because it is That. Good.[Review]

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Format/source: ARC/NetgalleyPublished: 7 May 2019 Publisher: Tor.comLength: 528 pages Genre: Speculative fiction ★★★★★ I received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands […]

March and April 2019 Month in Review

March and April 2019 Month in Review

Hello! Remember me? I took an impromptu hiatus in April. I had planned to start posting again on April 12 (the due date of my final assignment) but I let job applications and interviews eat up another week of my […]

Something Weirder than Usual is Happening in Logan County… [Review]

30 March 2019 / review / 2 Comments
Something Weirder than Usual is Happening in Logan County… [Review]

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles Format/source: ARC/NetgalleyPublished: 2 April 2019 Publisher: VersifyLength: 305 pages Genre: Middle grade speculative fiction ★★★★  Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched […]

Bookish Highlights from my New York Trip feat. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth

Bookish Highlights from my New York Trip feat. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth

Last year for Reading Week, my sister Ash came to visit me. This year, the two of us went to New York City. The impetus for this visit was the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth exhibit on at the Morgan Library. […]

March 26 MG Releases: The Size of the Truth + The Rambling [Review]

25 March 2019 / brief reviews / 2 Comments
March 26 MG Releases: The Size of the Truth + The Rambling [Review]

The Size of the Truth by Andrew Smith When he was four years old, Sam Abernathy was trapped at the bottom of a well for three days, where he was teased by a smart-aleck armadillo named Bartleby. Since then, his […]