Mercy of the Gods by James S.A. Corey
Mercy of the Gods is James S.A. Corey’s follow-up to The Expanse and the first book in the planned trilogy called The Captive’s War. Since Corey’s The Expanse is my favorite sci-fi book series, I think I was primed to enjoy Mercy of the Gods. And, guess what – I did enjoy Mercy of the Gods. A lot. That being said, Mercy isn’t just more of the same. The Expanse jumped genres quite a bit – some books in the series were Westerns, some were […]
Thank you Pooja for this amazing holiday gift. I can’t wait to read!!! I am not familiar with Goblin Market, so this will be a real treat. (And if I’ve already posted, sorry, I have a memory like a cheap Swiss Cheese!
The House Without Lights: A glowing celebration of joy, warmth, and home by Reem Faruqi
I don’t think I saw The House Without Lights: A glowing celebration of joy, warmth, and home by Reem Faruqi and illustrated by Nadia Alam on my online reading site. If I had, I didn’t remember seeing and/or saving it. But one day I had an email that said, “Here is a book we are promoting and we hope you consider reading it.” I said, “Why not?” and I found an online copy. That is not where this book journey ends though. I will be […]
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
I found Pineapple Street (2023) by Jenny Jackson when I was looking for another audiobook for my commute. I probably first saw it on NPR’s Favorite Books, but I can’t remember at this point. My brother lives in Brooklyn, and I thought it would be interesting to read a book set in his neighborhood. This book has love, heartbreak, class divisions, and humor. I enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. Sasha is a normal New York City artist who has married into the Stockton family–a family […]
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
I’ve read a number of women-in-science, love stories by Ali Hazelwood, but this is the first young adult, romance I’ve read by her. This one is about chess. Mallory Greenleaf loved chess; in fact, she was obsessed with it. And she was very good at it. Trained by her father, she was working her way up the ranks even as a young teenager. But then she saw her dad kiss another woman. It tore their family apart. Mallory blamed herself and quit playing chess. Mallory’s […]
Clear by Carys Davies
The idea of a historical fiction novel that sends you repeatedly running to Wikipedia usually sounds like a hefty tome, some kind of sweeping epic like Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries. But Carys Davies’s Clear is a tiny little jewel box of a novel, not even 200 pages long (or just a hair over three hours for the audiobook I listened to). But Davies takes you into the Scottish clearances, the 1843 schism in the Scottish Presbyterian church, Scots dialect, the dying Norse-derived languages of the northernmost […]
