The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 January is a misfit in her own world. As a woman of color in White upper-class New England society, she's a curiosity, an oddity, meant to be admired for her uniqueness and then forgotten. Until she finds a book. A book about doors, and … Continue reading Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Racism (challenged), Emotional Abuse Chloe Brown is going to get a life. For real. After years of suffering from fibromyalgia and limiting herself, one near-death-miss has convinced her to start living life to the fullest. Step one: move out of her parents' house. Step … Continue reading Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
January 2020 TBR
It's a new year!!!!!! A new decade! A vaguely revamped look! (ok, only in the graphics and even then not really). And oodles and boodles of new books to read. And I have sooooo many that I want to read this month. So. Fucking. Many. How will I choose? Here're the top 10 I want … Continue reading January 2020 TBR
December 2019 Wrap Up
I made my 2019 super secret goal of 200! And I exceeded it (why yes I'm an over-achiever, welcome to hell). 201! This month I read 16 books, including five audiobooks, one graphic novel and 10 novels. That was 5,482 pages (includes audiobooks) and 64 hours of listening (I have a 40 minute commute and … Continue reading December 2019 Wrap Up
My Reading & Writing Goals for 2020
Whew, 2019 was a year. I started off 2019 with my wife deployed, at a kinda boring job I wasn't super fond of but sticking it out, and about to publish my first novella (and my first paid piece of writing). I didn't have a blog. I was prepared to grit my teeth and get … Continue reading My Reading & Writing Goals for 2020
The Sunshine Blogger Award
I was sifting through my mentions (I'm still working on on how WordPress works, particularly being tagged for things because often I don't get—or know how to find—the notifications) and found that the very lovely Charlotte Alicia tagged me for my first ever Sunshine Blogger Award! Back in November! Ack! I'm a mess! But this … Continue reading The Sunshine Blogger Award
My Top 20 Books of 2019
2019 has been a year. I read 200 books (woohoo I met my goal!), and I met most of my other goals. My main goal was to read more diversely, and I found many of my top favorites of 2019! ✅ Read 60 Books With a Main Character of Color (I read over 80) ✅ … Continue reading My Top 20 Books of 2019
Book Review: The Queen of Nothing
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black 🌺🌺🌺.5/5 Exiled to the mortal world, Jude is lured back to the land of Faerie when her twin, Taryn, begs her in a way she can't refuse. Locke is dead by Taryn's hand, and she needs Jude to lie for her during the inquest. Yet when Jude returns … Continue reading Book Review: The Queen of Nothing
9 Queer SFF Novels Coming Out in 2020
Last week was my favorite queer SFF releases of 2019, and now I'm looking ahead and filling up my TBR because...anxiety is totally a thing I can conquer and does not affect me at all. Nope. Nope. Not. At. All. 100% completely calm and focused. Anywho, here's my list—sorted by author's last name. And yes, … Continue reading 9 Queer SFF Novels Coming Out in 2020
Book Review: The Giver of Stars
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Abuse, Assault, Attempted Rape, Prison, Incest Six very different women come together as librarians for the newly established WPA Pack Horse Librarian program, and find their lives changed in ways they couldn't even imagine. "Library just exists so people can try a bit of reading. … Continue reading Book Review: The Giver of Stars
The Suspected Bibliophile 