The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue Mackenzi Lee YA Historical Fiction 513 pages Published 2017 This was excellent! First, all the diversity here – between the bisexual main character, his best friend, who is biracial, has an “invisible” disability, and also likes men (or at least likes Monty!) and his seemingly asexual sister – … Continue reading
Library Loot Wednesday
I picked up a couple of books for Pride Month this week – The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, which I’ve seen rave reviews about, and Ellen DeGeneres’ third book, Seriously….I’m Kidding. I haven’t actually read her other two! I had one other hold come in, the third in the Rebel of the Sands … Continue reading
TTT – Books I Did Not Finish
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is supposed to be Ten Books I Decided Not to Finish Too Soon – but given that I very, VERY rarely decide not to finish books, I’m just going with Ten Books I Didn’t Finish. The Essex Serpent – I read the … Continue reading
Book Review: The Dirty Girls Social Club
The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Contemporary Fiction 308 pages Published 2004 So in trying to read more inclusively, I had been looking at some prominent minority writers like Junot Diaz or Sherman Alexie (I actually had one of Alexie’s books out from the library when I realized where I’d heard his name). … Continue reading
Sunday Funday
Well. We were planning to go to an Air Show today; it’s been years since I saw the Blue Angels perform, and my husband and his friend have never been to one. (My father was nuts for airplanes, so I was drug to a bunch of air shows as a kid/teenager.) Buuuuuut it appears to … Continue reading
Book Review: To Kill a Kingdom
To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo Fantasy 352 pages Published March 2018 I really enjoy books that take mermaids (or sirens, in this case, as mermaids exist but are something different in this world) and turn them back to their murderous roots. Adding in Cthulhu-esque horror made Into the Drowning Deep especially fascinating. To … Continue reading