Hello, October! September was a busy month for me with the Jewish holidays, which required a lot of prep work. Luckily, I managed to get it all done with Mom’s help, and the holidays were really nice. My sister even flew in to be with us, and to […]
Stories I Told My Dead Lover Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link, Jo Paquette’s Stories I Told My Dead Lover contains eight searing tales of […]
Love Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan’s debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, […]
Buried Deep and Other Stories Thank you to NetGalley and Del Rey for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance […]
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad Thank you to NetGalley and HarperVia for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity with the women […]
I finished March with 24 ARCs left to be read. Happy May! The month of April turned out to be unexpectedly busy for me, well … busier than I was already expecting. Between the weather getting nicer, Passover and family visiting, needing shoulder surgery (which I’m having today, […]
Happy Tuesday! Today’s post is top ten quick reads/books to read when time is short. While I don’t typically go out of my way to seek out novellas, I’ve read some really great ones recently. Here’s some of the best fast reads that I’ve come across: Hm, turns […]
This week’s topic is a freebie, and since Chanukah starts at sundown on Thursday night this year, I figured I would use this week’s post to highlight ten of my favorite Chanukah stories. I figured it works because of the heavy emphasis on Christmas books, and the recent […]
The Lover During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, in this wickedly sensuous short story by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. Judith knows her sister, Alice, is the pretty one—but that […]
The Book of Witches: An Anthology Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie […]
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