Shutter

I don't usually read thrillers, a trend that is probably pretty obvious if you even cursorily follow my reviews, but I was intrigued by this one that made the National Book Award longlist. It's not really that common, at least in my recreational following of the award, for a book categorized as a "thriller" to…

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Cultish

I've had Montell's nonfiction, both this one and Wordslut, on my TBR for a bit now. If I remember correctly, she originally came across my radar with Cultish through @thestackspod. In any case, I was immediately interested, but apparently I am not the only one. The waitlist at my library for the audiobook was...long. But I finally got it!…

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

This is a super eye-catching cover, with the bright white and gold, and a title that really makes any book nerd really want to see more of what it's about. I had read a few reviews that said this was, at some points, a bit hard to follow (for various reasons), so I waited until I was…

Count Your Lucky Stars

I find romances to be fantastic vacation reads, light and fun and easy to jump in and out of as you need. So, I was thrilled when my hold on this final book in the "Written in the Stars" romance series came in the week before I was set to travel for a long weekend.…

The Fae Keeper

Reading (well, listening to) The Witch King last year was an experience of magic and anger and queerness and social justice that just really hit the spot. So, I was excited to get to this second book in this series pretty soon after it came out. The Fae Keeper by H. E. Edgmon "You fight like hell for…

Unbound

This nonfiction has been on my TBR since I first saw it on the "new books" shelf at the library a few months ago. As with all things, it took me some time to get to it. Though especially in this case, knowing how intense of a read it was likely to be, I also…

Drunk on Love

I always know that when I want a good contemporary romance escape, Jasmine Guillory has got me! I’m behind (and a little all over the place) on her “The Wedding Date” series, but I thought both The Wedding Date and Royal Holiday were great. This one is her most recently (just) published work, a standalone,…

Monday’s Not Coming

I have seen many readers rave about Jackson's novels. And I've been meaning to read something by her for quite some time. She has quite a few books out now, and there seems to just be consensus that her books are all great; no standout or obvious starting place. So, this ended up being a…

On a Night of a Thousand Stars

Thanks to a random confluence of events, I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley and then was actually able to pick up a physical ARC from the library (we randomly get sent ARCs that are set out for employees to grab, which is a deeply wonderful job perk). While my Kindle is great…

The Guncle

This was a summer release from last year that I found at a used bookstore and grabbed on a whim. I'm not always into this type of read, but every once in a while a good uplifting book is necessary. And as a last hurrah as summer turns to autumn, the time was right.  The…