“Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time … Continue reading WWW Wednesday | May 15, 2024
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, HorrorPublisher: PersephonePages: 100Release Date: June 22, 1999 This ‘slim, brilliant, very scary novel’ (John Sandoe Books) came out in 1953 and is about a young married woman who lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes to find herself imprisoned in the body of her alter ego ninety years before. It impressed PD … Continue reading The Victorian Chaise-Longue – Marghanita Laski
Genre: Fiction, Literary Fiction Publisher: The Borough PressPages: 323Release Date: May 25, 2023 Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white … Continue reading Yellowface – R.F. Kuang
Genre: Fiction, RomancePublisher: Atria BooksPages: 253Release Date: March 1, 2022 When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip … Continue reading One Italian Summer – Rebecca Serle
Hello everyone! If you read my January Wrap-Up post you'll know of my plans to read one Robin Hobb and one Diana Gabaldon book a month. That goal is in jeopardy because I didn't like Dragonfly in Amber as much as I thought I would, so I'm not adding Voyager to my official TBR. I'm … Continue reading Monthly TBR | February 2021
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Knopf Pages: 336 Release Date: September 9, 2014 Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. One snowy night … Continue reading Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Genre: Fiction Pages: 374 Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: March 10, 2020 Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer. 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa … Continue reading My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
Genre: Fiction Publisher: Simon Schuster Pages: 384 Release Date: March 26, 2019 Not since Pandemic have we seen a thriller like this from bestselling author Daniel Kalla: The plague has hit Italy. Can Dr. Alana Vaughn find the source in time to save the world? No person is left unscathed, no family untouched. Death grows … Continue reading We All Fall Down – Daniel Kalla
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher: Scout Press Pages: 320 Release Date: March 19, 2019 Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman … Continue reading Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
Genre: Fiction Publisher: Atria Books In this gripping follow-up to Love Lies Beneath, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s “fabulous, sex-filled masterpiece of mystery and romance” (Library Journal, starred review), the honeymoon ends for Tara Lattimore when her husband’s ex-girlfriend is murdered, and she becomes a prime suspect. Tara thought she was finally settling … Continue reading A Sin Such as This (Love Lies Beneath #2) – Ellen Hopkins
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