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love when you realize there’s more in a universe that you loved

"Wings In the Morning" by Sarah Rees Brennan

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This is really just a four star review for the one story in here about Luke Sunborn, he of the lovable himbo with depth persuasion in the delightful In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. I re-read In Other Lands solely to read this story, because I feared I would not recall enough of the tale to fully appreciate it. Perhaps that would be true, but I can also say that this story is written with enough context and callback that you can enjoy it either way! So In Other […]

Kin by Tayari Jones

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CW: racism, obviously, but also pre-Roe-era abortion, including bad outcomes (offscreen) What is it with books about ambivalent/absent mothers and the impact on the (female) child? I feel like I’m being hit over the head with a lesson that I don’t particular need! I found this book almost impossible to put down–I had an evening to myself to do errands that needed doing, and instead found myself lying on the couch running through this as fast as I could. Kin traces the parallel but connected […]

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a thoughtful, reflective book that might mean more to you depending on your experiences

We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune

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Oh, TJ Klune. I drank up your Cerulean Sea, and then the Extraordinaires was indeed extraordinary, and then there were some follow ups that I felt were a bit on the nose (like, SMASHED nose on the nose) so I distanced myself a bit and kept you in the background. I think it’s probably going to be the same here, but I enjoyed the commitment to the bit! The bit here is that there is a black hole en route to the Earth (this is a […]

A kind, gentle book with gentle characters who practice empathy

Whistler by Ann Patchett

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I’m not sure this was Patchett’s point, but I left this book thinking a rather unpopular opinion: that perhaps divorce, and being a parent who leaves a marriage where you are unsatisfied (as opposed to actively being hurt, either physically or mentally), harms children? Which is to say–as someone who does not have children, does not want children, but has done a lot of reading on lots of these topics to ensure that clause two is a true statement–we usually assume that a parent in […]

I see a KJ Charles, I read a KJ Charles

How to Fake It in Society by K.J. Charles

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KJ Charles is definitely an auto buy (well, an auto hold) author for me (actually, I just bought actual physical copies of the Will Darling books so maybe this will become auto buy as well). Something about the way she writes consent and romances with legitimate, interesting plot works for me (not even being sarcastic). I enjoy that they tend to be sort of oldtimey as well, which allows for a bit of disengagement with the current trashfiredumpster that is the world. Every one of […]

a huge step up personally from his last non-fiction outing

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe

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This is a book that I’ve been vaguely aware of for a while–IRL Book Group are big fans of PRK, as he is known around these parts, in particular Empire of Pain. A few of my friends went to a talk he gave as well, which might have been focused on this work. Non-fiction isn’t my jam, and neither are murder/mystery/thriller type works. But boy oh boy did PRK jam together both of those things and create a work that is so much more than the […]



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