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Night Watch
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW TW: Rape, physical assault, child abandonment, death, which unsurprising given its Civil War/Reconstruction era timeline Another one for the fiction book club! This was one…
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Phantasma
Welcome to Phantasma.There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Welcome to Caraval Phantasma. Where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. This was such a blatant ripoff of Caraval for me. It literally took so much…
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His Majesty’s Airship
Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Another book club read, this one for our nonfiction club at my local library (I’m in two book clubs there and one…
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Interior Chinatown: Show VS. Book
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in…
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Sea of Tranquility
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a…
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Night of the Living Cat (Vol. 1)
A virus spreads across the world, transforming all humankind into wild, slavering, furry beasts: cats, to be precise. –Storygraph MY REVIEW So I missed the meeting for this, I was at *checks notes* Warped Tour, when you get to be my age, you just sort of start to accept time…
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Gift from the Sea
Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. –StoryGraph My Review Written in 1955, this book is something of a unique book for its time. Lindbergh…
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Writing Mr. Right Blog Tour
In this charming, delightfully original rom-com, a struggling writer’s muse suddenly comes to life, but can they create their own happily-ever-after? –StoryGraph Book Synopsis: The Dead Romantics meets Book Lovers in this charming rom-com about struggling writer Ziya, who’s about to give up on her dream of publishing until she wakes up one…
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The Elopement
As Mary approaches her seventeenth birthday, a bond forms between her and Ned Knight, an understanding that leads, on the last day of the year 1825, to Ned declaring his hand. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW This was another book tied into Jane Austen’s family members and I really enjoy historical fiction…
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Downlands Tour Review
Every street has its stories – those of the living and those of the dead. –StoryGraph Book Synopsis: A wonderfully evocative ghost story in the great tradition of M. R. James and Daphne Du Maurier with a contemporary edge. Perfect for Halloween and illustrated in Norm’s own gorgeous style. “Every…
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