First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “A secret is a terrible thing. It starts […]
The Library of Fates Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. When its librarian keeper mysteriously dies, two former classmates must race to locate a rare book from their college years that can foretell […]
The Bookshop Below Thank you to NetGalley, Redhook, and Hodderscape for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this extraordinary standalone from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The City of Stardust, a disgraced bookseller is offered the chance […]
I have managed to amass so many books that I am really excited for this post. It isn’t going to take a lot of thinking back through lists of books that I have read and only vaguely recall. This week’s prompt is the first ten books I randomly […]
October went by in what felt like the blink of an eye, even though it wound up being more of a slower paced month. The month was a fun one, with a few birthdays and some holidays. For my family, it started out busy and slowed as the […]
I finished September with 15 ARCs left to be read. I’m shocked at how quickly October flew by. I love the colder temps, the crunching of leaves, even walking outside and noticing the smell of woodsmoke in the air. So much happened during the month, from having my […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “So there I was in the office, processing […]
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother’s kitchen. […]
The Gendarme What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered… Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War […]
Voidwalker Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. WOULD IT BE SO BAD TO BE DEVOURED? Fi smuggles contraband between worlds, stockpiling funds and stolen magic to keep her village free from the blood […]
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