finished reading Slade House 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by David Mitchell.
Every nine years, people disappear into a house which otherwise can't be found. The author's usual layering of stories across different time periods gradually reveals the truth, though it's not particularly clever this time around. Dark arts & illusions, bit creepy, not really my thing.
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Here are a few thoughts on Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin, 1978. This was the perfect change of pace for me after a dark read, with touching scenes, sharp observations, and plenty of witty dialogue #BookReview #audiobooks #Storygraph #reading #books
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4
finished reading Enemy of God 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Bernard Cornwell.
The Saxons threaten to overrun Briton; a search for a legendary artifact to bring back the Old Gods; a little blissful romance; Lancelot is a backstabbing, cowardly bastard; oaths, what are they good for? A touch more magic than in the first book, but just as hard, dirty & cynical.
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@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Here’s my review of The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley, 1953, a wonderful novel about class, memory and the loss of youthful innocence, with a dash of magic! #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0160c5fb-2919-4971-ab84-7f037475dfbd
finished reading The Help 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Kathryn Stockett.
In 1960s Mississippi, white women and the black maids they employ navigate the upheaval of the civil rights movement. The contrast of ingrained racism and the deep emotional integration of black women into white family life is astounding. Potential for deep analysis, but you can also just enjoy the story.
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@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
finished reading Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson.
While the hero of the series is lost in the Nowhere, her fellow pilots get on with being awesome and taking the fight to the oppressors. Decent YA fare with lots of dogfights, light humour and a little romance. The hyperslugs are adorable.
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@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
finished reading The Cruel Stars 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by John Birmingham.
Action space opera that doesn't take itself too seriously. Humanity has become a diverse species dangerously dependent on digital & genomic enhancement - a zealous puritan strain plans to change that. A few too many characters to begin with - none of them I connected with, and many of whom die - but they come together nicely.
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@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
New #BookReview on our #library #blog: 'White Poverty.'
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/blogs/system/from-our-shelves-iwhite-povertyi
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New #BookReview on my #blog: 'This book is yours and free to keep'
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-this-book-is-yours-and-free.html
#books #reading #review #ItinerantLibrarian #Appalachia #prison #literacy 💙📚
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finished reading Wind and Truth 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson.
An absolute brick of a book - possibly the longest I've ever read. Could certainly have been shorter (successful authors get way too much latitude), with too frequent changes in PoV, and while I appreciate his use of mental health to disrupt tired fantasy tropes, after three weeks of amateur therapy I was a bit over it. But he does pull together sprawling plotlines to a satisfying climax, with an appealing set up for a fresh take on the second half of the series.
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@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
My contribution to the #1925Club this week is a post on the wonderful Love by Elizabeth von Arnim, which had a lot to say about double standards in society and the pressures on women as they age #bookstodon #BookReview #audiobook @kaggsy59
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3589831a-2956-408e-a6dc-19397cf94635
New #BookReview on my #blog: "Why I love horror."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-why-i-love-horror.html
#books #reading #ItinerantLibrarian #review #horror
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Book published by #SagaPress
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A short but very generous review I recently got on my "Fantasy/Attempted comedy" story The Last Philosopher 😊
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finished reading A Court of Thorns and Roses 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Sarah Maas.
My first foray into #romantasy. The plot is so-so (humans vs faeries, love & intrigue) but finishes strongly. The romance is weak - it's never clear why she loves the faerie lord, except for his sexy man-beastiness. Hopefully this is not the best the genre has to offer.
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@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
A Review of I Found the Boogeyman Under My Brother’s Crib: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-i-found-the-boogeyman-under-my-brothers-crib/
Look who has come knocking for Halloween...
Fascinating and most informative, this detailed and deeply researched biography draws on previously unavailable correspondence to present a fuller picture of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/10/31/book-review-edgar-allan-poe-a-life/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #EdgarAllanPoe #EAPoe #Biography #Literature #Goth #Gothic #Horror #Halloween @bookstodon
Book Review: The Witch of Prague by J.M. Sidorova
An intriguing magical realism novel set in the run up to the Prague Spring of 1968.
@Princejvstin has the review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-witch-of-prague-by-jm.html
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New #BookReview on my #blog: "The Secret History of Bigfoot."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html
Author seeks to answer why Bigfoot and the lore and legends about it remain so appealing.
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I’ve written a few thoughts on Lolly Willowes, 1926, by Sylvia Townsend Warner, a wonderful story of female empowerment im which Lolly strives to gain her independence, with surprising results! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobook #Backlisted @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/90691226-b43b-4e0b-937a-ef29c90366f8
I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire. When Jane Gardam died earlier this year I thought I really need to read her and this was the only book by her available in hardcopy Braille in the RNIB Library… #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de
A Review of A Visit From Naughty Claus: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-a-visit-from-naughty-claus/
New on my #blog: "Books reviewed: October 2025."
https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/
My monthly wrap up of #reviews.
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A Review of For the Rest Of Us - 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-for-the-rest-of-us/
JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN (😭), my latest review went up at Grimdark Magazine. Joe R. Lansdale totally is your favorite horror writer’s favorite horror writer, and this is a solid retrospective.
(As always, boosts are appreciated!)
https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-the-essential-horror-of-joe-r-lansdale-by-joe-r-lansdale/
