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52 Book Pick Up: Episode 2021

Spoilers before we begin, it’s more than 52 books.

This post was meant to go up yesterday, as my usual year end wrap up, but I was felled first by the news of Betty White’s passing, and then by the Mother of All Migraines.

I had an excellent reading year, and the Bookstagram project that Ashley and I started for the first half of 2021 was really great for padding my booklist. I managed my goal of

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	Grimm, Grit and Gasoline: Dieselpunk & Decopunk Fairy Tales by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (editor), Zannier Alejandra (Goodreads Author), Alicia K. Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beth Cato (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Krista D. Ball (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circuits & Slippers by Jaylee James (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Allan Davis Jr., James Wood 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home for the Howlidays by M.L.D. Curelas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Angele Gougeon (Goodreads Author), Sarah Hersman (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos by Paige Daniels (Goodreads Author), Mary Fan (Goodreads Author), Elisha Betts 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), E.C. Bell (Goodreads Author), Premee Mohamed (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space Opera Libretti by Jennifer Lee Rossman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian McNett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), K.G. Anderson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speculative City: Issue 2 Game by Speculative City, G.G. Silverman (Goodreads Author), Russell Hemmell (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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