Dianthaa Dabbles

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 (only one translated book left to go on my second card!), the BLM bingo (3 books left to start, 1

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 vaulted sky. I made a post-signing up for the challenge with my plans, and if you just want the challenge

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 do an update on ALL THE THINGS because why not. I’m liking up with: The Sunday Post, hosted by Kimberly

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 it all in one day, couldn’t put it down, and love so much about it. Legendborn is a modern-day story

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 up your posts. October is Black Speculative Fiction month, and I’m participating in #BlackSFFathon and the Black Lives Matter Book

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 only horror book I’ve read this year was Snow, Glass Apples by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Colleen Doran, a Snow

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 I’m linking up with: The Sunday Post, hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. The Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at

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 at the seaside without going anywhere but the beach and our rental, so we did A LOT of reading and

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 was pretty easy for me to pull together because Long Title was one of our bingo squares last year on

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, A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark(which I now realize is a short story) and This Is How