Book of the Little Axe

I don't really want to tell you how long ago I got this book as an ARC from NetGalley. It's embarrassing. I also don't want to tell you that the only reason I finally picked it up was because I saw it at one of my local library's "Friends" book sales and it jogged it…

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The Immortal King Rao

I had never heard of this one, had no idea what it was about, when I saw it as one of the free ARCs that the library sometimes receives, out on the break table as a first come, first served situation. The title intrigued me, so I looked up a quick blurb, and it caught…

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…

Betty

I’m not sure what made me pick this one up. I know it was a while ago that it came across my radar, because at the time, I put in a request with the library for them to purchase the audiobook, since none of my local ones had it. And I know myself…whatever review said…

Woman of Light

A year or two ago, I read Fajardo-Anstine's story collection, Sabrina & Corina, which was a favorite of mine that year. I loved the grittiness and the homage to land/ancestors and the feminism all mixed together to great impact. Needless to say, I was excited to hear that she was coming out with a full-length…

Kaikeyi

I love a good retelling, so I'm here for the overall boom in feminist classic mythology retellings. The Witch's Heart and The Silence of the Girls are both great, and of course Circe is an all-time favorite of mine. So I was super excited to delve into this feminist retelling of a non-Western epic, the Ramayana. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel “Before…

A Lady for a Duke

Well, y'all, the ‘rona got me...the day before I was scheduled to work at the library and planning to pick up this hold, which I was so hype for. So I sent my partner in to get it for me, because what is better sickbed reading than a queer Regency romance?! (Answer: nothing.) But apparently when he got…

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

This is one of those books where the title is the reason and that's all there is to it. I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to read such a fabulously titled book, and in this monumentally horrific time to be a person with a uterus in the United States, this kind of whimsy was exactly…

The Tenth Muse

So I found this novel at a used bookstore a few months ago and grabbed it because the title sounded familiar. Honestly, I thought it was about an early glass-ceiling breaking female mathematician, and I was into reading it just for that. But as I got farther and farther into the book, I realized how much more it…

Ordinary Monsters

First, thanks to the publisher (Flatiron Books) for the eARC of this novel. I was quite excited about being asked to participate in a blog tour for a book that was being marketed as "A Dickensian X-Men.” I mean, if that's not my reading vibe, then idk what is? (I mean, it's lacking the Victorian aspect, but Vicious and Vengeful anyone?…