Fall Into You by J.T. Geissinger Carnal Urges by J.T. Geissinger Ruthless Creatures by J.T. Geissinger Find Her by Tessa BaileyC+nto and Othered Poems by Joelle TaylorPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle*Intimacies by Katie KitamuraMcGlue by Ottessa MoshfeghSavage Hearts by J.T. Geissinger Legacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Second World War by Anthony Beevor  *Prize Winners †Countries While ..read more

Oh advent season is back, baby. I am deeply obsessed with advent calendars. December is terrible. It’s extremely busy. You get pulled in twelve million directions. The weather is crappy. It gets dark at like noon.  And I am an adult person with adult money who can buy [redacted] advent calendars for themselves if they ..read more

Here is the round-up of everything that I read in October: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin |Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval†Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes Four Psychos by Kristy CunningSlow Bullets by Alastair ReynoldsThe Blighted Stars by Megan E. O’KeefeMake Me Sin by J.T. GeissingerLiars Like Us by ..read more

The leaves are changing color, the weather is finally cooling off and I have less than three months to go on my 2023 reading challenge.  My aim for the year was to cut down on my physical TBR stack. That means both reading the physical books I had and, also, not buying more.  With less ..read more

Talking to your ex and posting hot photos of yourself on IG is cheating now, apparently.  This Daily Beast article about “microcheating” was making the rounds on Twitter last week. I spotted it with the remark “the straights are not okay.” The article doesn’t coin the term “microcheating.” The term predates this particular article. Forbes ..read more

A Man Kneeling and Placing a Laurel Branch Upon a Pile of Burning Books – Marco Dente – The Met I am in a perpetual state of trying to wrap things up.  Two years ago, I tried to get my TBR shelf on Goodreads down to fewer than 50. It’s at 191 and it’s been ..read more

I said I would start this year by reading the books I got for my advent calendar last year. And I have finally finished.  Actually, I finished ages ago but had other things going and forgot to write this post.  I am slightly obsessed with advent calendars. For the past few years, I have gotten ..read more

Back in the heyday of blogs, it was A Thing to list the other blogs and websites that you read. Perhaps as a section in the sidebar. Perhaps as an entirely separate page. It could be a Top 8 of sorts for the blogging set. But mostly it was a useful resource for finding other ..read more

I saw Jack Edwards do a video on his favorite book titles, many of which were titles I also enjoyed.  I am a big impulse book shopper and will grab books based on the title and/or cover alone. Frequently. It’s a problem.  A few Edwards mentions as favs – Breast and Eggs, I Fear My ..read more

I couldn’t decide what to read so I made my husband pick.  Typically, I finish a book and I just pick up another one. I don’t have much in the way of a plan about what to read.  This year I’ve been trying to read down my physical TBR list. That is a sort of ..read more