pickWhat happens in your area when someone dies and no one claims the body? This book reveals the process in LA, and now I‘m determined to learn what happens in my county, too. Fascinating, sad, and thought-provoking in equal measure. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 stars at least.
pickIf you like space settings for your horror, S.A. Barnes has got you. Ghost Station brings you all the bad-flashback, amicrazy, and body-horror vibes as a research team lands on a lifeless planet to take samples. Except maybe it‘s not so lifeless after all. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I love me some grimdark fantasy. And this one here? Alllllll the trigger warnings. Prince Jorg is a true sociopath and anti-hero, but it‘s satisfying to see him kick through every chivalric convention in search of vengeance. As long as he doesn‘t hurt any dogs, I‘ll keep reading.
pickA little slower to start, a little less Wendell in parts, but still satisfaction to my cozy fantasy-loving heart. New life goals: Get a Grim to adopt me 😍
pickThis Gothy goodness was just what the doctor ordered for a sick day. Opal is my fave kind of heroine: gritty, tough, and morally ambiguous. Don‘t cross her, don‘t curse her, or you‘ll be MORTALLY sorry.
Shh don‘t tell: #Jolabokaflod has been prepped. This is a difficult year, but this holiday ritual still brings joy. 🎄📚
pickFunny, snarky, Godzilla-laced romp. The perfect mood-lifter. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Out of my reading slump for sure with all these spooktacular reads 😍💀always a good month when I pick up my #bookspin #doublespin and #bookspinbingo 👻
Can I not call in “My book is too good for me to come to work tomorrow?” That‘s a thing, right? 🔥
pickWitch, please. This tale of a bad breakup turned female empowerment story gave me the PERFECT spooky season vibes 🧙♀️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Always a good month of reading when I can pick up my #bookspin #doublespin and #bookspinbingo 🙌 Looking forward to alllllll my spooky reading in #Spooktober!
Spooktober #bookspinbingo list is UP! Bring me todos los espookys por favor, I like them all 🎃💀👻🧛♀️🦹♀️
I‘m enjoying the virtual (re)visit to the Keys in these pages. Romances aren‘t my jam (got to read this for work), but I‘ll take beaches, water, and Cuban food anytime. 🏝️🌊😋
pickXian Li-lin can see ghosts - and monsters - with her ‘yin eyes.‘ Her father, a renowned Daoshi master, usually protects San Francisco‘s Chinatown. But when he‘s weakened by an old enemy, Li-lin must summon every friend and power she can garner to defeat an enormous evil. The plot is cinematic here — like a wuxia film. Not much character development, but it was a wild engrossing ride just the same. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ & 3/4 stars. #bookspin
Better late than never: my #bookspinbingo list. In my witchy world, we‘re marking the start of spooky season today 🎃👻💀 Bring me ALLLLLLL the pumpkin too! #bookspin #doublespin
Happy to get a bingo this month! It feels like my book slump is gradually letting up. Cozy fantasy, middle grade novels, and page-turning mysteries helped a lot! #bookspinbingo
pickThis middle-grade Gothic mystery is cute and gave me Scooby-Doo vibes (though alas, there‘s no dog). If I were still in the intended readership, it would be ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As an adult, I give it at least 3 stars and change 😊
Not a good reading month 😢 I‘ve never missed my #bookspin #doublespin and getting a #bookspinbingo since this started. But: time to try again.
I can‘t believe it‘s almost here. But: July #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo list is UP! 🌞
I‘m calling it. Several good books this month. And I‘m pleased I knocked out my #bookspinbingo and #bookspin and #doublespin!
pickConfession: I run a romance book club for work, but I‘m not into romances. So I didn‘t expect to like this month‘s book club pick (and it‘s also my #bookspin). BUT I TOTALLY DID. Relatable and diverse characters, plenty of humor, dialogue that sounds like actual human speech. Yes, the characters are a little too perfect, and I still eye-roll during sex scenes (that‘s a me thing). Rate a romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ though? I just did.
pickMy #doublespin was an education in so many ways. The forensics of genocide? Yes. Humanity‘s inhumanity to one another? Yes. The deep care and refusal to abandon the lost by some? Also yes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickPowerful in the depiction of one child‘s experience through WWII, in which he endures endless horrors of every kind. I understand that this probably gives shape to what many children endured, especially those separated from their parents. It definitely does not fall within the current stream of historical fiction in its lighter tone. All the trigger warnings possible here. Valuable, indelible, but ugly & scarring too. #bookspin
A good reading month! Two #bookspinbingo lines as well as my #bookspin and #doublespin 🥰 Let‘s hope March is rewarding too!
#bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo list is UP! As always: if only I could devote my time to reading them *all.*
so-soMy #bookspin reveals itself pretty clearly as a first novel. The plot is mostly derivative and the dialogue can be stilted. But there‘s potential: there‘s a strong sense of place in the bayou and New Orleans scenes. Urquhart has worked in a morgue, and those scenes feel pretty realistic. If reviews are good, I might pick up a future book of hers ⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickPicked up my #doublespin today. It was my #Jolabokaflod present to myself and worth every penny. David Quammen writes so well and accessibly that he‘s an insta-buy for me. If you have the slightest interest in how / where COVID-19 originated and spread, as well as the characteristics that made it into a pandemic, you‘ll be riveted. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Well, nuts. No #bookspinbingo for me this month 😢 I did get my #bookspin and #doublespin though. Let‘s go, 2023!!!
January 2023 #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo list coming in hot! (Or maybe cold. SO COLD 🥶)
pickGlorious book of black womanhood and struggle for my #doublespin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The language and imagery here are beautiful.
pickFinished a #d100 this morning that was SUPERB. Sam Kean unrolls the history and effects of various gases here. If that sounds dry, believe that in Kean‘s hands, it isn‘t. I can‘t equation, & that wasn‘t an issue either. His examples are at layperson-level and grounded in delightful humor. Treat yourself. I‘m glad I did. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
That‘s a wrap on my #bookspinbingo for October. I managed my #bookspin #doublespin and a #d100 this month. Lots of good spooky reads too 👻
pickSnagged my #bookspinbingo with the tagged. The story is delightful, featuring a Seelie vs. Unseelie war between fantastical creatures that can only be resolved by a couple of doughty human kids. The art is delightful. No surprises but it‘s a good time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI snagged my #bookspin on audio. It wasn‘t read by Black - a shame, I loved her voice in Written in Bone - but the narrator did a good job. This job is less focused on cold cases and more on the broad brushstrokes of death, dying, and legacy. Although it felt a little repetitive at times, I enjoyed Black‘s wry humor and death-positive (yet reverent) perspective. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
