The Prince and the Dressmaker

As you may have noticed, I have been getting really into (mostly queer) graphic novels. On a Sunbeam and The Magic Fish were two favorites from last year. I'm finding that I am enjoying the quick, low key escapism of the stories and being swept into the illustrations. Plus, they are great quick reads if I'm short on time…

Firekeeper’s Daughter

This was a "last day I worked at the library before the Holidays" impulse grab. Someone had returned it and, instead of sending it back to be shelved, I checked it right out to myself. I had seen a number of positive reviews for it and, while it isn't my normal reading genre (mystery/thriller isn't…

The Girl from the Sea

I had one final very slow curbside shift at the library before we switch over to full open hours next week, so I decided to grab a graphic novel to keep me company throughout the morning. I'd heard some great things about this one and it was sitting there on the "new" shelf just looking out…

Heartstopper: Volumes Two & Three

The library came through! Cause I wasn’t lying when I said that after reading the first Heartstopper a few weeks ago that I was not ready for the unexpected romantic cliffhanger and needed more immediately. Thankfully, I may not have been alone in my needs/requests, because the second and third volumes just got added to…

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

I've been waiting on my audiobook hold for this one to come in at the library for a few weeks now. In a burst of near-perfect timing, I got the alert that it was ready to check out literally the morning after it won this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Woohoo! Last…

Like a Love Story

I got my hands on this book through a used book sale. The cover is so deeply striking (the colors, the contrast, the design, the font, all of it!) and I was drawn right to it. Plus, the title itself is really intriguing: Like a Love Story. Like one, but not actually one? How does that work;…

Heartstopper: Volume One

After reading and being so impressed by Oseman’s Radio Silence a few years ago, I have been meaning to read more of her work. As it always goes, it took me awhile to get there. And now I am deeply perturbed by the fact that my library only has the first installation of this graphic…

Legendborn

Magic, King Arthur and a UNC-Chapel Hill setting? I’m not entirely sure that there’s a book more in line with my life and interests than that. Plus, every single review I’ve read has been glowing. So really there was never a chance I didn’t read this one. Expectations were high. And wow – it stood…

The Witch King

I'm getting marginally better at remembering where I get book recommendations from (go me!), so here I'd like to just shout out @trans_cending_literature for being the first person to put this book on my radar/TBR. I added a request for the library where I work to purchase it, but it wasn't happening fast enough for me because it…

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Funny story about how this one found its way onto my shelves. One of our major vices (if you will), nutritionally, is pop tarts. We eat a lot of them. If you are curious, my partner is a “brown sugar cinnamon” person. And I alternate between “chocolate chip cookie dough” and “unfrosted strawberry” (I know,…