pickIf you‘re looking for a terrific short story collection about a marginalized group of people with a little magical realism and/or dystopia mixed in to some stories, this is the one you‘ve been looking for. It‘s so good! I liked each an every story and some of them made me “oh!” out loud.
pickThis is a truly beautiful work about being something to others even when you feel like you are nothing. Wonderfully melancholy, the setting perfectly supports the story. In any other circumstance, the disappearance (reapparance?!) of Hugo would have felt like lazy writing, but Seckel weaves something unfinished so beautifully into this soft, mournful tale of simple getting through the dark patches that it feels intentional.
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For today‘s #DebutByIndigenousAuthor prompt, I‘m going with this debut collection of stories written by an author who is “Japanese and Native Hawaiian with deep Moloka‘i roots” according to Honolulu Magazine.
It‘s being published on 8/29 & I pre-ordered it last month through my local indie bookstore in part because I love the cover & they were offering a limited supply of the corpse flower enamel pins with pre-orders. 🤷🏻♀️
Starting a book set in Scotland on the way to Irish Festival feels both so right and so wrong 😂
so-soPicked this one up interested in the Scottish folklore aspect. I‘m not really one for thrillers so I think that‘s where this book kind of fell for me… Leigh returns home after her father has died only to come back during October when the Sluagh rule the island that she is from. After the war they have become more violent, leaving the inhabitants wondering if they can continue living on the island they call their home.
pickWhen famous artist Ula Frost mysteriously disappears, Dr. Pepper Rafferty, a professor of forensics, finds herself drawn into the search. Frost's paintings are rumored to depict alternative variants of its subjects, versions from alternate universes. An inventive take on the concept, vividly written and thought-provoking, while also a delight to read.
pickSelf-portrait with Self-Portrait With Nothing … which is a very fun, action-packed, often hilarious ride through the multiverse. Sort of. You‘ll see what I mean when you read it. Comes out tomorrow!!
I love building relationships with bookstore employees and taking their suggestions when I can‘t decide how to spend a gift certificate.
I've been so ridiculously burned out that I haven't been reading much, but this book was staring me in the face from where I was sitting to work, so hey, why not? I'm giving it a shot. So far, so good.
I've been making good progress with #BookSpin; I have a line in #BookSpinBingo, and I've finished my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin. It's just this last week the Too Muchness of work has caught up to me.
Reading this one on Kindle. I love reading two books at a time, one in paper and one electronic.
