Cannonball Read 18

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This would have been better as a YA fantasy

Dominion by Jean Kwok

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CBR18 Bingo: 26 (published this year. This month, in fact) Thank you to G.P. Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Rubi is an azure, a group of displaced and badly treated refugees. In this fantasy world, there are four dominions, each with its own specialities. There is the Azure Dragon dominion, which can control plants and all things growing, and many of their people can shapeshift into animals; the Scarlet Phoenix dominion, which […]

“News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”

Marple: Twelve New Stories by Various

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I would read more of these Agatha Christie short story collections featuring notable authors, for sure. Even the ones where Americans tried and failed to capture that British Marple feeling were entertaining in their failure. But most of these stories were pretty successful! One nailed it completely. Highlights for me were the stories from Ruth Ware (I know!), Naomi Alderman, Elly Griffiths, Kate Mosse, and Leigh Bardugo. This may be the easy way out, but I’ve just copied and pasted my Goodreads status update mini-reviews […]

“In love and life, we never know when we are telling ourselves stories. We are the ultimate unreliable narrators.”

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok

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In one word: Downward spiral A quick summary of my feels on this book, as told via texts to my friend, the librarian leading our book club discussion group. March 6 Ma’am I am really into this searching for Sylvie Lee!! It’s very readable but I keep putting it down cuz it’s a bit sad. But very good. March 10 Okay so now I’m halfway through and it’s just so diiiire. Like a grey day in The Netherlands. Perfect for our shit weather. Ha. March […]



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