***This is a review of an upcoming release. This title is scheduled to be released on May 3, 2022.*** Look at that cover, y’all. Doesn’t it just scream “I am a light buttercream confection?” Well, just like The GUNCLE, this more than a little misleading. Amy, a semicloseted queer baker and bartender in mid-2010s Oklahoma,… Continue reading Week Forty: Queerly Beloved
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Week Thirty-Two: The Match
***This is a review of an upcoming release. This title is scheduled to be released on March 15, 2022.*** I picked up a Harlan Coben book on a whim sometime in the summer of 2005. I was early for a doctor appointment, and there was a Borders—a Borders!—across the street, so I popped in and… Continue reading Week Thirty-Two: The Match
Week Twenty-Four: Hench
So, this was not a book that I would have ever chosen for myself to read. I would have picked it up, read the blurb, said “wow…that’s clever…” and put it right back. No mysteries to solve, no couple to reunite, no werewolves, no vampires, no witches, no one on the run? No, thank you.… Continue reading Week Twenty-Four: Hench
Sunday Post: 12/19/2021
Hello, my lovelies. So, when we meet again, Christmas will be but a memory. I know it’s a cliche, but wow…this late part of the year seems to go faster than all the other parts, doesn’t it? I do have my shopping all done, with one last-minute stocking stuffer bought yesterday. Hoping that Amazon holds… Continue reading Sunday Post: 12/19/2021
Sunday Post: 12/12/2021
Hello, my lovelies. Feeling introspective today, and when I introspect, I gotta write about it. If you don’t wanna take a walk through the terrifying forest of my brain, you can skip to the “I Read…” section, which will likely be far less, erm, personal. Also, this is kind of stream of consciousness, so it… Continue reading Sunday Post: 12/12/2021
Week Twenty-Two: Never
Flawed…but pretty good. I do not know how long it’s been since I read an 800+ page book, but I am out of practice. This one took me forever, and I only persisted because I love Ken Follett so much. I read The Pillars of the Earth in 2010, when I bought a copy for… Continue reading Week Twenty-Two: Never
TTT: Ten books I feel like everyone has read but me
This week was a freebie, so I reached all the way back to 2010 for this topic. I tell folks all the time that I like researching books and reading about books almost as much as I like reading books. For that reason, I am usually pretty up on the trendy books, the ones that… Continue reading TTT: Ten books I feel like everyone has read but me
Sunday Post: 12/05/21
Hello, my lovelies. This is the eleventh installment of The Sunday Post and as I typed the date, I paused at the year, not sure if I have been doing ‘2021’ or just ‘21’. So I went back to look and it turns out that 5 times it was ‘2021’ and five times it was… Continue reading Sunday Post: 12/05/21
BBH: A Bookish Memory
Today’s question comes to us from Julie @ JadeSky who asks: What is your favorite memory surrounding books? I am not sure if it’s my favorite memory, but it’s the one I think about most often. In my house growing up, my brother and I had bedrooms that were across a VERY short hall from… Continue reading BBH: A Bookish Memory
Week Nineteen: The Guncle
My husband died quite unexpectedly seven years ago. This is only relevant so that you will understand that I have really, really, REALLY avoided books that address grief too directly. I talk about grief as a theme quite frequently…in, for example, in Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts, I talked about the teen mourning her recently-gone… Continue reading Week Nineteen: The Guncle
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