Annie Hartnett’s The Road to Tender Hearts I had somehow never heard of this until Christina recommended it to me, even though it’s blurbe...

  T. Kingfisher’s What Stalks the Deep The third Sworn Soldier book finds Alex and Angus off to America, to help investigate some mysterious...

  Mimi Pond’s Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me Look, I’ll read any bio of the Mitford sisters, but one that is ALSO a graphic novel? *Ch...

  Emma Lathen’s A Place for Murder The second Emma Lathen book finds bank senior VP John Thatcher called to Connecticut to help the bank pre...

  Emma Lathen’s Banking on Death I’m always looking for new mystery series to get into, and this was a very promising start. Emma Lathen is ...

  John Scalzi’s The Shattering Peace I was in the mood for some sci-fi so figured I’d check out the new book in the Old Man’s War series. Th...

  Regina Black’s August Lane When Olivia Waite said this was her favorite romance of the year, I picked it up immediately! It’s a second cha...

  Premee Mohammed’s The Siege of Burning Grass I like the stuff I’ve read by Mohammed and have been meaning to get to this one for a while, ...

 Natania Barron's Netherford Hall I am always wishing for more queer Jane-Austen-but-with-magic type books, so this was pretty much up m...

 Mona Awad's We Love You, Bunny Bunny is back! This is sort of a prequel, sort of a sequel, sort of its own thing--I barely remember th...

  Jo Walton’s Half a Crown I really did nothing this evening except read the second two books in this trilogy! This third one finds Carmicha...

  Jo Walton’s Ha’Penny The second book in the Small Change trilogy raises the stakes a little as an actress (from a family definitely inspir...

  Jo Walton’s Farthing We were chatting about Jo Walton in one of my discords and I was seized with the urge to reread this series—maybe my ...

 Seanan McGuire's Silver and Lead Nothing I was reading was holding my attention, which meant I had to bring out the big guns--the 19th ...

  Barbara Truelove’s Of Monsters and Mainframes I’m not sure I’ve ever described a book as a “romp” before, but this book is SUCH a sci-fi r...

  Naomi Novik’s The Summer War I was home sick and feeling puny today, and this was the perfect book to read—a really sweet novella with maj...

  Kate Ross’ Whom the Gods Love The third Julian Kestrel mystery involves Julian being asked to investigate the death of a popular young gen...

  Kate Ross’ A Broken Vessel   The second Julian Kestrel mystery is a complicated one, involving a mysterious letter, an organization that r...

  Kate Ross’ Cut to the Quick Rereading this first book in the Julian Kestrel series (about a Regency dandy!), because I finally got hold of...

  Leigh Stein's If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You When I saw the title, I had to read this--I've seen soooo many Tik...