My Letters to Conceiçãoby Jorge Molina del CallejoFiction/FabulismPublished in October, 2021 by Incorgnito Press During a business trip to Cambodia, a man is given a package of letters by a mysterious woman. The letters prove to be unmailed letters written by a thirty-something American man named Vasco to his lost love, Conceição. The return addresses … Continue reading Book Review: My Letters to Conceição
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Book Review: The Heron’s Cry
The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers #2)by Ann CleevesMystery384 pagesExpected publication date: September 7, 2021 by St. Martin's Press The quiet ease of north Devon's sultry summer is abruptly shattered one morning when Dr. Nigel Yeo is found dead in his daughter Eve's art studio, stabbed to death with a shard from one of Eve's blown … Continue reading Book Review: The Heron’s Cry
Sunday Sum-Up: August 29, 2021
Pumpkin spice lattes are back at Starbucks. Does this mean that Fall is here? Please tell me Fall is here. I am tired of all this 95°F weather (with the subsequent 108°F heat indices). Bring me Sweater Weather! And some rain. We need some rain. Anywho. As mentioned above, pumpkin spice lattes are back at … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 29, 2021
State of the ARC: August 2021
State of the ARC is a meme hosted by Avalinah’s Books in which we round up our ARCs and attempt to wrangle them into something approaching order. Sometimes it’s like herding cats. My virtual stack of ARCs is switfly growing smaller, and I am glad for that. It's fun to get advanced copies of books … Continue reading State of the ARC: August 2021
Book Review: The Real Valkyrie
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie BrownNonfiction/History336 pagesExpected publication date: August 31, 2021 by St. Martin's Press In 1889 in Birka, Sweden, archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe documented the grave of a highly-ranked warrior of tenth-century Norse society who had been buried with weapons, silk garments, and two horses among … Continue reading Book Review: The Real Valkyrie
Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
It's tomato season around here. I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Nebraska, everyone with a garden plants roughly one-hundred tomato plants, as though they expect that only one in five plants will produce anything. But of course, each plant produces enough for a dozen people, and so everyone goes … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
Sunday Sum-Up: August 15, 2021
Friday the 13th was the other day. Does this mean we can officially start decorating for Halloween? Asking for a friend. The heatwave finally broke here, and yesterday was lovely. Today is supposed to be lovely, and the rest of the week is supposed to be lovely, too, although my day off is predicted to … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 15, 2021
Book Review: Velvet was the Night
Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMystery/Noir304 pagesExpected publication date: August 17, 2021 by Del Rey In 1970s Mexico City, political unrest bubbled beneath the surface of everyday life, and sometime boiled over in the form of protests, riots, and violence. In the midst of this, El Elvis is part of a gang seeking to … Continue reading Book Review: Velvet was the Night
Sunday Sum-Up: August 8, 2021
Ever have one of those weeks where you have so many things you would like to finish, and then you manage to finish basically nothing? Yeah, last week was one of those weeks. Alas. But there was progress on pretty much everything, so it wasn't a total loss. It just felt like a multi-day continuation … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 8, 2021
July Summary, August Preview
And like that, July was over. And it was fine. An okay month weather-wise, reading-wise, craft-wise. Less so writing-wise, but I'll get that corrected. I did a lot less reading in July than I did in June, but that's to be expected, as I was taking part in the Shelf Space Discord server's Olympics Readathon, … Continue reading July Summary, August Preview
