A rather eclectic mix of books this week. The Pumpkin Cookbook, because it’s fall and I love pumpkin spice, and so does my husband! Chaotic Good, because it’s about a geeky girl facing sexism, and it’s set in my hometown! And Frankly In Love because I’ve been hearing great things about it.

I spoke of Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book and A Boy Named Shel in last Thursday’s book review, but I also picked up His Hideous Heart: thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined. It’s one of my planned Fall spooky reads, and is especially timely because we’re going to the Poe Festival this Saturday, October 5th! Living in Baltimore, we have all kinds of Poe things, and I’m excited about the festival. I’ll try to take lots of pictures!

Well, today’s post is going to look VERY similar to yesterday’s, because I picked up several of those books at the library this week!

Serpent & Dove, Anna Dressed in Blood, The Girl From The Well, and The Suffering all came in this week. The only book that wasn’t on yesterday’s list is The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics, a sapphic historical romance that has gotten rave reviews. I’ve had a hold on it for a LONG time.

Just one library book this week, though my pre-order of Gideon the Ninth arrived, with GORGEOUS black sprayed edges, and I also ordered the Barnes & Noble Book Club edition of The Testaments, because they moved book club to Wednesday so I can go again! (And I am VERY excited to read and discuss this particular book.)

From the library, though, just Of Ice and Shadows, the sequel to Inkmistress and Of Fire and Stars. It appears to take the main characters from Fire and Stars and return to the country of Inkmistress, so I’m pretty excited.

Three books this week that I’ve had my eye on for quite some time now! Shatter the Sky was billed as “angry bisexual dragon riders” which – yes, that’s relevant to my interests. A Memory Called Empire is apparently Aztecs in Space? Which sounds fascinating. It’s also by a local author, or rather, was. She’s moving to New Mexico very soon, according to her website! I kept seeing her name on local author events, but hadn’t read the book yet. Of course this is how the timing works out. Ah, well. The last book, amusingly picked up on the same day I turned Hollow Kingdom back in, is The Storm Crow – fantasy with crow riders. Turn a crow book in, check a crow book out. I’m happy with that!

AAAAAAAAHHHHH YOU GUYS THE DRAGON REPUBLIC CAME IN. The Poppy War was AMAZING and I’ve heard so many people scream about how The Dragon Republic DESTROYED them so I am SO EXCITED FOR THIS.

I also picked up I’m Not Dying With You Tonight, the book for September’s Barnes & Noble Young Adult Book Club.