From Scary Times Call for Scary Reads by Jennifer McMahon: [My new book is] a little creepy. My friend apologized and said that she just couldn’t read unsettling books because of how unsettling the world is right now. I would argue (and did!) that that is exactly when we need these books the most; they take us to dark places and help us explore our ( Read more... )

That title might be a bit of a stretch but I like alliteration.

• Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade: April and Marcus are both very careful to keep their fandom separate from their professional lives. April wants to avoid negative comments from colleagues about her Gods of the Gates fanfiction and from fandom friends about her weight. Marcus, a Gods of ( Read more... )

• Because Internet: understanding the new rules of language by Gretchen McCulloch: I’ve followed the author’s linguistics Tumblr for years. This book was fascinating and entertaining. I have a tendency to read non-fiction in a very piecemeal fashion -- I have a couple of non-fiction books on my shelf that I loved but haven’t actually finished -- ( Read more... )

I fell down a romance rabbit hole again. After a day which had involved panicking (needlessly, it turned out) and also hours listening to my current audiobook, which is tense and serious and set largely in the aftermath of WWII, it was a relief to throw myself into something more light-hearted.

This is how I read three four books by Penny Reid.

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