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11:44 am | | Comments 10

October Wrap-Up

Last month I overdid it a bit and participated in lots of challenges which left me kinda tired. I need to pace myself better. On top of the r/fantasy bingo

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Reviews: Mem, A Song Below Water, The City We Became, Brown Girl in the Ring
5:22 pm | | Comments 4

BLM Bingo reviews(2): Mem, A Song Below Water, The City We Became, Brown Girl in the Ring

These are some of the books I’ve read for the Tarot Black Lives Matter book bingo, presented by The Tarot Sequence fandom! This is run primarily by Kathy @pages below

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4:31 pm | | Comments 18

Stacking the Shelves and Sunday post: Bookish events abound

As I mentioned last week, I’m trying to squeeze 3 bookish events into 2 weeks of blogging. I was planning to focus on the #OcTBRchallenge this week, but decided to

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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Review
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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Review – Amazing Contemporary YA Arthurian fantasy

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn is the first full-length review I’ve written in a while, because it’s one of my new favorite books, and I really had to gush. I read

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3 Fantasy books by Black authors coming out in 2021
10:00 am | | Comments 7

Can’t Wait Wednesday: Black Speculative Fiction Month edition

Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link

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1:06 pm | | Comments 8

Spooktastic Recs for scaredy-cats: 17 Not-so-scary monster books

I really loved Wyrd and Wonder and wanted to participate in its creepy little sister event. But, only one problem, I don’t read a lot of horror. I think the

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Stacking the Shelves and Sunday post: #BlackSFFathon edition

This will be the first in a series of posts where I try to squeeze 3 bookish events into 2 weeks of blogging. Really going for overachieving this week as

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2:18 pm | | Comments 5

Mini-reviews of fantasy books: The Fifth Season, The City of Stairs, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and Turning Darkness into Light

Time for some more mini-reviews of fantasy books. The only thing these books have in common is that I read them all on holiday this year. We had a week

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Books With Super Long Titles
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Top Ten Tuesday – Books With Super Long Titles

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This

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Novella mini-reviews The Haunting of Tram Car 015, Silver in the Wood, The Deep, Riot Baby, Penric's Demon
3:31 pm | | Comments 2

Novella mini reviews (2): The Haunting of Tram Car 015, Silver in the Wood, The Deep, Riot Baby, Penric’s Demon

Novellas are my new greatest love. I already did one post covering Of Dragons, Feasts and Murder by Aliette de Bodard, The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo,

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