Books
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The Sunday Post: Reviewing the Week and Looking Ahead – 2/18/2024
Welcome back to Back Shelf Books for another Sunday Post! I’m super excited for today because this week starts the new color palette on the blog! I love the new retro color scheme and feel like it fits my overall vibe and new logo much better. It’s been a weird week in my neck of… Continue reading
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Back Shelf Review: Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher #2) by John Scalzi
Welcome back to Back Shelf Saturdays, where I review backlist titles I didn’t get to read when they were first published. I do this (almost) every week to ensure I’m reading more than just newly released and forthcoming titles. For my purposes, a backlist title is at least one year past its release date. This… Continue reading
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Earthdivers, Vol. 2: Ice Age by Stephen Graham Jones
Steven Graham Jones was one of my favorite authors of 2023, and Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus made it onto My Favorite Books of 2023, so I eagerly dove into Volume 2 as soon as possible. Kill Columbus centers on Emily, Tad, Sosh, and Yellow Kid’s attempts to time travel to the 1400s, kill Christopher Columbus, and… Continue reading
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Blog Tour and Review: Queer Villains of Myth and Legend by Dan Jones
Welcome to the first day of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend blog tour! When I heard about Dan Jones’s nonfiction title that identifies and explores the queer villains we all love and love to hate, I was thrilled to read it and support it on the blog tour. Just by looking at the cover, it’s obvious Queer… Continue reading
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Review: Mister Magic by Kiersten White
Mister Magic was a children’s program that everyone remembers, but no one can find any evidence of it actually existing. Every mention of it seems to get scrubbed from the internet. There was an accident, but no one remembers what actually happened. Was it a death? Was it a fire? Even the kids who were… Continue reading
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Top Ten Tuesday: My Ten Favorite Book Romances
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. These are all things I can wholeheartedly get behind. This week’s topic is a Love Freebie for Valentine’s Day. When I saw… Continue reading
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Review: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
I know what you’re thinking. “Didn’t you just read another book by Premee Mohamed?” And, yes. You’re totally right. Since December, I have powered through two of Mohamed’s novellas, And What Can We Offer You Tonight and The Annual Migration of Clouds. Amazingly, both of those have been 5-star reads. Because of that, I knew… Continue reading
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The Sunday Post: Reviewing the Week and Looking Ahead – 2/11/2024
How is it already Sunday again?? This week completely flew by! My husband and I had a bit of an adventure day today and actually made it to three (!!!) different bookstores. Somehow, even with this blog and all the books I hear about, I always find books I’ve never even seen before. Today, my… Continue reading
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An Outlier Review: A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
Arthie and Jin deal in secrets. Though they run the most successful teahouse in the city, what they’re really after are the whispered details they overhear from their patrons. By day, their teahouse sells tea and biscuits to the wealthy and elite. By night, the teahouse turns into an illegal bloodhouse, selling cups of blood… Continue reading
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Mary Tyler MooreHawk by Dave Baker
Like so many of my favorite books, Mary Tyler MooreHawk is near-impossible to categorize. Part dystopian literary fiction, part biographical magazine, and part nine-panel comic, Mary Tyler MooreHawk refuses to settle for just one genre. Dave Baker has succeeded in creating a multimedia masterpiece that has a lot to say about art, the pursuit of… Continue reading