Category Archives: reading

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite My rating: 5 of 5 stars Absolutely loved this. Loved, loved, loved. I needed books like this to exist in the mainstream in my 20s. Lucy is an astronomer, trained up … Continue reading →

Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer My rating: 5 of 5 stars (Content Note: there is offscreen child death in this novel.) I absolutely loved this. I’ve long been a fan of Jaime Lee Moyer’s work, because her characters are so … Continue reading →

The Opposite of Drowning by Erin McRae My rating: 5 of 5 stars Harry is a mid-career editor and minor travel writer. Elizabeth is a digital strategy consultant brought in to update the publishing firm’s marketing. This is a May-December … Continue reading →

Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you are the kind of person who read The Tempest and thought “Prospero is kind of a dick,” this is a book for you. It is Miranda’s … Continue reading →

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a fantastic slow burn of a first novel. I’m a fan of Arkady’s short fiction, and the hallmarks of well-crafted language, intricate, intimate worldbuilding, and … Continue reading →

Witchmark by C.L. Polk My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read this one relatively slowly because I wanted to savor it. This is going to be discussed as “gaslight fantasy” because it’s secondary-world with a vague post WWI-ish(?) setting, including … Continue reading →

The Unlikely Lady by Valerie Bowman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Lovely fluffy romance I got as an audiobook from my public library. Jane is a bluestocking. Garrett is supposedly a man-about-town. They hate each other. They snipe. They … Continue reading →

Heroine’s Journey by Sarah Kuhn My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read this on the plane ride back from WorldCon. I love, love, LOVE this series. It is the cognitive equivalent of a warm hug, a blanket, a kitty, and … Continue reading →

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay My rating: 4 of 5 stars Content warnings for rape and body issues, both of which are presented in a straightforward but not euphemistic manner from the point of view of … Continue reading →