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Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Batman Earth One, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns

Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer

Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

July 12, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

A few reviews of shorter books that I read quickly over the weekend and didn’t have extra time to flesh out… Tonguebreaker ***** Coming to terms with a society that doesn’t want you based on your body…and creating your own space instead…has to be a challenging thing. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha bares her soul to the world in this collection of poems and one-act plays. Her use of language to lecture gripped me and her exploration of what it means to live in this world, to […]

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The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan

May 20, 2021 by Malin 2 Comments

Disclaimer! This was an ARC granted to me by the author, which has in no way influenced my review. I had also pre-ordered the books many months ago, because Courtney Milan is an auto-buy for me, every time. Amelia Smith is a Chinese woman raised by English missionaries in China. When she was just a little girl, her birth mother, a woman fleeing during one of the many conflicts in the country, asked Mrs. Acheson, the woman who Amelia has thought of as her mother […]

Not a book for me.

Memorial by Bryan Washington

February 22, 2021 by narfna 1 Comment

I really need to stop ordering the lit-fic option from Book of the Month. It so very rarely ends well. The premise here is that Mike and Benson are a couple. Mike is a chef and Benson is a daycare worker. Mike’s father is dying of cancer, and so he decides one day to go to Japan to mend their relationship, leaving Benson alone in their one bedroom apartment with his visiting mother, who only arrived that morning, also from Japan. Also, their relationship is […]

postcardsandbooks on So excited for Book 3!I did see that :) I'm getting them with my new audible credits when they come in!
narfna on Baby’s first tie-in Star Trek novel.I probably would have loved this if I'd read it when I was younger, like I did with all the original Star Wars EU books....
narfna on “Is your brother really such a surly bastard, they ask. Of course not; inside, he’s a teddy bear, say I . . . and then he opens his mouth.”I already love Matthias and we only spent like two pages with him.
llamareadsbooks on “Is your brother really such a surly bastard, they ask. Of course not; inside, he’s a teddy bear, say I . . . and then he opens his mouth.”Lucy Parker's books *are* such warm hugs, aren't they? I also can't wait for Pet's book!
llamareadsbooks on Baby’s first tie-in Star Trek novel.I read this when it came out, so I was quite the wee baby, and I remember loving the crap out of everything Peter David...

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