https://youtu.be/1j5NU3WdZ2g February 7th December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones. Four years after her tumultuous senior [...]
Currently Reading I am rereading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet for the Book Check Out Book Club and I am so happy to be back with these characters. I had a smile on my face from the first chapter because I was feeling all of the nostalgia and there is something about [...]
I already shared my favourite "new to me" authors of 2022, so I thought it would be fun to put together a list of authors I haven't read from and whose work I would love to explore in 2023! Isabel Allende I didn't realize just how extensive Isabel Allende's backlist truly is! I will probably [...]
Currently Reading I just started Undercover and it is only 59 pages, so I am sure I will finish it by the time this post goes live! I have discovered that I like reading short stories from authors I am interested in but haven't read from yet. I think this will be a good way [...]
I told myself that I wasn't going to set any serious reading goals in 2023 because I never stick to them. I know we are only two weeks into the year, but I think I have a system that is helping me to be more organized, so I am hoping I will remember I made [...]
I started the year by reading the first three books in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series and I loved that experience! It reminded me how much I enjoy translated fiction and how many translated books I have on my TBR. These are the translated works that are on my more immediate TBR! https://youtu.be/e2HlsCAeK0A [...]
I have read four of the ten SPFBO finalists and I wanted to take a moment to talk about them! If you have no idea what SPFBO is, check out this post. In short, it is an annual literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors. https://youtu.be/Dx1GXp_JGmw I am reading all of the finalists along with 9 [...]
Currently Reading I am about to finish The Raven and the Reindeer and it has brought me so much joy! No one writes fairytales quite like T. Kingfisher does. I think she has this special way of finding the balance between darkness and light in a story like this. I normally don't love quest stories, [...]
I love discovering new authors and I wanted to take a moment to highlight some authors I read from for the first time in 2022 and fell in love with. Some of these authors I have since read multiple books from and others I have only read one book from but want to tackle their [...]
2023 is already shaping up to be a year of amazing book releases! https://youtu.be/LV92tpN0AKY January 3rd From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors--and each other. Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's [...]
