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Finally putting one of my favorite books of the year on the grid: “Here After,” a memoir by Amy Lin, about the life and death of her beloved husband Kurtis. I devoured this after seeing gorgeous Amy do a reading at Books Are Magic months
Another delightful witchy book. “Rewitched” by @lucyjanewood is a warm hug, a cup of hot chocolate, a cozy blanket. It’s so smart on self-esteem and the ability to undo lost potential and friendship. Oh, and there’s a bookstor
Part of what makes talking about last week’s US elections so hard is that words like awful, scary, unprecedented, despairing, and catastrophic have lost all meaning. They are all true and accurate enough, but don’t articulate the fear, ra
“Daisy Darker,” Alice Feeney’s twist on Agatha Christie’s classic english golden age mystery “And Then There Were None,” is brilliantly contained on a Halloween day. I loved the ending when I read it a few months a
“Fang Fiction” by Kate Stayman-London was just as good as the buzz had me believe. It hit weirdly close to home that two main characters, Tess and Joni, are PhD students in comparative literature - though of course I don’t typically
A 10/10, no notes Sapphic holiday second chance romance with two musicians as main characters, horse rides, friendships, and a snowed-in moment ☃️⛷️🏔️🐴🎄👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 This has all the emotional interlligence, cozy atmosphere, and yearning
Everything I heard about the brilliance, style, observational power, humor, and unhingedness of “Luster” turns out to be so so true 🪩 A portrait of the artist as a young, poor, horny, wise, searching Black woman in NYC (and NJ). CW: ra
“A Lesson in Vengeance” by Victoria Lee is a Dark Academia book through and through, and the fact that the heroine reads my all time fave “Gaudy Night” by Dorothy Sayers in the first chapter tipped me off that I would like thi
This was actually one of my fave reads of the season, and yet it took me a while to post about it. “Plain Bad Heroines” is such an excellent story and it has SO many amazing queer women in it which is too unusual and so fun🐝 The story is
So I liked “If We Were Villains” and felt it was compelling but I hadn’t realized it also had a male narrator like “The Secret History” with the female members of the friend group very much relegated to minor characters
I was hesitant to read a book from a male standup comedian’s POV but I’m so glad I trusted in Dolly & the readers who came before me. It's a fast, juicy, fun, smart read that will make you a more emphatetic person. That said Andy is S
I *loved* this prequel to “Her Majesty’s Royal Coven” 🧙 In “Queen B,” Juno Dawson takes us deep into the past and into British royal life. Speficially, we spend time with Anne Boleyn’s coven of witches after her