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Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev

July 22, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Flora: there’s two lotus flowers on the cover of this book, which made me realize that the main heroine’s hair was short the entire time–not super common for romance novels, will give it that! I do not understand why I keep reading these books, I clearly do not like them. And every time I read them I get grumpy that this is likely The Indian Retelling of Jane Austen’s oeuvre, at least for a number of years. You don’t see Jane Austen and Werewolves anywhere, […]

Becky Chambers does it again (just…could she do it for longer???)

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

July 22, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

Machinery: because, duh, robots, but could also be They She He since Dex is nonbinary (a fact never really commented on!) Man oh man does Chambers have a style: she’s going to sneakily set up a world, and then just WALLOP you with utterly charming characters whom you cannot help but get invested in. The worst part of this book? That it’s so short–more of a long-ish novella than a real, fulsome standalone book. I don’t know if this is the first in a series […]

A pretty quick re-read but there’s no shame in that!

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

July 22, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Self Care: a book I’ve wanted to re-read for ages which I finally did–and little did I know that work was about to get rough, so it was well timed 😀 I’d had a pretty chill time of it at work, and thought I’d blow up my sleep schedule by starting and finishing this book in the time zone known as “GO TO SLEEP.” I’ve found myself wanting to re-read a whole subset of books for a while, and I’m thinking about giving myself a […]

Enjoyed reading this one!

Who's that Earl by Susanna Craig

July 15, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Home: while I’m not saying it’s a epic saga about the journey to find a place to call home, whether Jane will finally get to call a place home (or if Thomas will come and take Dunnock away from her) is a main plot point! Based on a rec from llamareadsbooks for the second in the series! So I will say that I enjoyed this and stayed in bed one morning in lieu of going to work to read it. It’s the first book in […]

Unfortunately shows that the first book might have ben a bit of a Flash in the pan

Flash Fire by T.J. Klune

July 15, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Rep: a really great portrayal of ADHD, which is neither glamorized nor stigmatized Spoilers for the first book in the series, . Unfortunately, while I eagerly awaited this book and rushed it to the top of my TBR list, this book did not quite reach the heights of the first. It felt a bit scattered and lacked the narrative cohesion and tension that propelled me through the first book. Not that I didn’t finish this book quickly–I did–but it’s not one a series that I […]

A great book you should go into as spoiler free as can be

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

July 11, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

In a nutshell: I think this a book with tremendous execution with a twist that isn’t entirely necessary to illustrate the main point. I’ll start the first part of this without spoilers and then dive into the spoilerific review later. On a superficial level, this book deals with what it means to be the Only and then One of in an office place. As an Only (female) and soon-to-be One of (Three) (although I don’t think it’s very adversarial!), I felt like Harris did a […]

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