Insert grimace face emoji here. fyi, laser levelers are the BEST cat toys I enter book world with the best of intentions. I see a book, I fully intend to read it, it's probably one of my most hyped books of the year and then it just...sits there. Either taking up storage on my kindle … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read and…Haven’t
Author: laurel • the suspected bibliophile
Book Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 Fourteen-year-old Mina never meant to get arrested. In fact, she shouldn't have been arrested at all. She was the one who found the body of the girl in her aunt's bakery, but because Mina is a wizard (does being able to magic bread even count … Continue reading Book Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
Writing News!
I finally, finally get to share literally the biggest news of my writing life: my short story, "The Hidden Language of Flowers," was selected for inclusion in Neon Hemlock's We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2021. Look at that cover. It's fucking gorgeous. And that table of contents is...wow. But the real achievement here … Continue reading Writing News!
May 2022 TBR
There are so many great books publishing in May that I haven't read yet, and therefore I highly suspect that my intent to read my June ARCs is going to get horrifically sidelined. I have so many books I want to read this month and I know I won't get to them all but I … Continue reading May 2022 TBR
April 2022 Wrap Up
I think April was a series of (small) revelations for me. Mostly because I missed a lot of my self-imposed goals, and also because I'm starting to realize that I can't do all the things I want to do, and mostly, because Forever and Everly's post on disconnecting from bookish social media sparked something, as … Continue reading April 2022 Wrap Up
Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Sword Sapphics on the Cover
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The prompt is "Books with ____ on the cover," and how could … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Sword Sapphics on the Cover
Book Review: Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
I feel like this is more appropriately titled: Fevered Star, and other sequels that didn't wow me like book 1 Because yes, this is going to have two extra mini reviews tacked on to the end, for Katherine Addison's Witness for the Dead (a companion novel to The Goblin Emperor) and Sarah Lyons Fleming's second … Continue reading Book Review: Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book Review: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo 🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 "No maids," I said, thrusting my chin up. "No funning talking, no fainting flowers." In this Hollywood, the monsters on screen aren't half as bad the monsters behind the scenes, controlling everything, from their stars' names to the people they love. Luli Wei would do anything to be a … Continue reading Book Review: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring TBR
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Technically this was a prompt from last month and technically … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring TBR
Book Review: The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 Oh, to live in a world that saw and valued you! An anthology of dystopian short stories about queer women of color finding joy where they can in the middle of a world where memory is curated, collected and removed. This is a world where resistance to totalitarianism … Continue reading Book Review: The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
The Suspected Bibliophile 