A Psalm for the Wild-Built, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, True Biz, The Golden Enclaves, Our Wives Under the Sea, the Marriage Portrait, The White Mosque.
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Reading Roundup: June 2022
Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves, Monster Portraits, A House Between the Earth and the Moon. Also some links to resources if you could use them.
Reading Roundup: June 2019
Friends, did you know that you do not have to scavenge bookstore clearance tables to read affordably as well as ravenously? You do not have to wait for coveted books to go on sale, or pounce on ARCs before they are published? Did you know you could check out all the new fiction you please… Continue reading Reading Roundup: June 2019
Books I read and loved in 2016
I know, it is certainly not 2016 anymore. And I know, my end-of-year roundup is usually Books By Women I Loved (in 2013, 2014, and 2015). You'll see below that I still mostly read books by women. But I also set a goal two years in a row to make my reading list less white and… Continue reading Books I read and loved in 2016
6 Things I love about Sofia Samatar’s Olondria novels
I read A Stranger in Olondria last year and observed how different it felt to read it compared to other books I enjoy. Typically, books that become my favorites are those that are impossible to put down; quick, intense reads. A Stranger in Olondria is so dense with description and mythology that I was compelled to… Continue reading 6 Things I love about Sofia Samatar’s Olondria novels
Books by women I read and loved in 2015
The Doctor's Wife by M. E. Braddon. Just as last year was my Year of Elizabeth Gaskell, 2015 was my year of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Like George Eliot, Braddon had the audacity to live with a man who was not her husband in the 19th century; unlike Eliot, Braddon wrote sensation novels about crime and adultery and… Continue reading Books by women I read and loved in 2015
Sara Davis 