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June 27, 2023
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (audio)
Source: Purchased Audible, 12+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell, is my 9th book for the 12 books recommended by 12 friends. Kya Clark is a young girl living in the marshland of North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, but her home life […]
June 26, 2023
Mailbox Monday #740
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
June 21, 2023
Odder by Katherine Applegate
Source: Borrowed Hardcover, 288 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Odder by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso, is my 8th book for the 12 books recommended by 12 friends reading challenge. Odder is a sea otter who has been raised by humans and released into the wild. She adjusts well, but she seems a […]
June 20, 2023
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Source: Public Library Paperback, 340 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson, the latest of my buddy reads on StoryGraph, tells the tale of true crime aficionado Phoebe Walsh who comes back to Florida to help her younger brother clear out their father’s house after he […]
June 19, 2023
Mailbox Monday #739
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
June 15, 2023
Sex Work and Other Sins by Julianne King
Source: the poet Paperback, 62 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Sex Work and Other Sins by Julianne King is a slim collection of poems and essays about the resistance of women against the societal mechanisms that seek to push them into poverty when they have children to care for with little help from the […]
June 14, 2023
Happy Place by Emily Henry (audio)
Source: Purchased Audible, 11+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Happy Place by Emily Henry, narrated by Julia Whelan, is set in a Maine cottage worth millions of dollars (while I love escapism, there’s something about this setting that rubs me the wrong way). Perhaps it was the semi-whining about the sale of a home […]
June 13, 2023
Lilies on the Deathbed of Etain and Other Poems by Oisin Breen
Source: the poet Paperback, 52 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Lilies on the Deathbed of Etain and Other Poems by Oisin Breen catapults the Irish mythology of Étaín into a context that is both modern and from days of old. A maiden who is turned by a jealous first wife of Midir into a […]
June 12, 2023
Mailbox Monday #738
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
June 5, 2023
Mailbox Monday #737
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
