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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in political autobiographies when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist.

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“You durned whippersnapper, ain’t you kids ever heard of casual sex?”

Laws of Attraction by Sarah Title

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Are you looking for a sweet, light summer read that includes a kissing booth staffed by a dog? Title’s got you covered. Plot: Becky was recently dumped, so she’s drinking away her woes in a bar while her best friend encourages her to get over him by getting under someone else. She meets Deke, an attractive guy with a decent sense of humour and it’s on for the night. Becky is a law librarian at a large corporate firm. Deke turns out to be the […]

A love letter to learning

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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I am on a journey to rediscover science. It’s one of those things that I found fascinating as a kid and deathly boring as a subject in school. A few months ago I picked up The Great Unknown by Marcus du Sautoy, a scientist whose job is to make scientific thought accessible to the public, and found the boredom, combined with the frustration at who du Sautoy featured prominently and who he didn’t (spoiler alert: it’s women and people of colour, they haven’t done a […]

“Sometimes, being convenient instead of real was exhausting. So maybe from now on, she’d stop.”

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Talia Hibbert is a damn treasure. Plot: Eve Brown is a bit of a scatterbrain and has a pathological fear of failure. Only one solution – never try, never fail! Only her parents have had it up to their necks with their adult daughter’s failure to launch, so they hit her with a challenge. Find a job. keep it for a whole year. Then she can have access to her trust fund again. Being on the dramatic side, Eve launches herself out of the house […]

The best science fiction novel I’ve read in a long time

Star Marque Rising by Shami Stovall

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I used to be a huge science fiction geek. Asimov broke my damn brain. But after a while, it started to feel like a lot of the same thing, and that thing was pretty superficial. It feels like most authors writing in science fiction are most interested in the action than what drives the action, which in my mind at least is not at all what makes science fiction interesting. This book is not scant on action in the least, but it deftly weaves worldbuilding, […]

A nice mellow read about decent people getting a happy ending

A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley

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Do you love low stakes diverse regency romances? Then don’t even read this review. You will love this book. Plot: Patience, the daughter of a very powerful plantation owner (black run, no slavery), was swept off her feet by a British aristocrat with a money problem. Arriving in England, she was promptly sequestered in a country home and left to rot while her new husband ran up bills at various gambling establishments and the like. And then he died. Now, his nefarious uncle is trying […]



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