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“All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist.”

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 13/30 I love Murderbot and I hope that I always will. What I love about these stories, beyond the immediate appeal of an outwardly misanthropic and antisocial being fighting its own feelings and personhood, is that as they go on, Wells seems to be showing that Murderbot is not just a one story kind of murder-construct (aka not that at all), but one that can play around in different genres. No one will convince me that the full-length novel […]

“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.”

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman

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This really hit the spot, and it had a lot more emotional depth than I was expecting from it! I think I was expecting something more on the cozy mystery side of things, something lightweight, and it did have a bit of that feel to it as well. But this also had a larger scope than a cozy mystery, way more characters, and a lot more focus on uncozy things, sad and emotional things—like accepting death and dying, the realities of getting older, dealing with […]

“Beware of the clever ones. The dumb ones are safer.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun

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This book came into my life serendipitously. I took my first out-of-state vaccinated soiree back home to the sweaty state of Louisiana to see family a few weeks back (Yay!). I’m a big fan of an outdoor walk so I took my mom along for a jaunt and we walked around the neighborhood outside of my aunt’s house and happened upon a little free library. I’m more of the reader and she is more of the shopper, but together that means that neither of us […]

Familiar but Interesting

Deception by Gaslight by Kate Belli

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Deception by Gaslight is on the one hand very familiar, but on the other hand interesting. The familiar includes the journalist partnering with a mysterious aristocrat to solve a series of thefts that might be connected to some murders affecting mostly high society to which they both have connections while trying to decide if they’re attracted to each other or not, and trying to keep their own personal secrets. The setting is late 19th century NYC, both the ballrooms of high class social gatherings and […]

Lord save me from a sad sack narrator.

Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey

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The premise here is: What if your sibling went to magic school and you’re a muggle? And what if you’re a private detective hired to solve a murder at a magic school? Both of these are intriguing separately. Together, I could not resist this book. Unfortunately, I did not like it nearly as much as I wanted to. Parts of it were stellar, and parts of it absolutely did not work for me. Our narrator is Ivy Gamble, a struggling private detective whose twin sister […]



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