Category: Book/Author Highlight

• Author Highlight: Gloria Chao

  So I decided to spend the week reading Gloria Chao’s catalogue of books. Which okay that was easy since there’s only four and she’s addictively readable. While each premise seems light, she also deals with the more difficult frustrations of coming of age as a Taiwanese American daughter of immigrants and the difficulties of communication…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 9, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #gloriachao, #ourwaywardfate, #rachelreads&reviews, #rentaboyfriend, #simon&schuster, #vikingbooksforyoungreaders, #whenyouwishuponalantern, #YA

• Nancy Drew ReRead P3

  Now onto the vacation series, otherwise known as #30-40 more or less. This was a very exciting set as it combines my favorite book trope, travelling with Nancy Drew mysteries.

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 9, 2023

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  #carolynkeene, #middlegrade, #nancydrew, #nancydrewmysteries, #rachelreads&reviews, #theclueintheoldstagecoach, #theclueofthedancingpuppet, #thehauntedshowboat, #thehiddenwindowmystery, #themoonstonecastlemystery, #themysteryofthefiredragon, #thesecretofthegoldenpavilion, #thewitchtreesymbol

• Author Highlight: Neil Gainman

  Initially I was going to stop at Gainman’s classic child horror tale, Coraline, but I saw that he has several fairytale adaptations in his repatoire so I felt I had to read them to complete my fairytale TBR pile. Let’s get to it! The Sleeper and the Spindle was the only “high school” level book…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 7, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #chrisriddell, #colleendoran, #fairytale, #graphicnovel, #hanselandgretel, #lorenzomattotti, #neilgainman, #picturebooks, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #snowglassapples, #thesleeperandthespindle

• Nancy Drew ReRead P2

  I know I started the year with a Nancy Drew reread, and finally twelve months later I get to the rest. I’ve been busy. Nonetheless, I almost got the whole collection minus 4 of them that had already been checked out from the library. Or stolen. It wasn’t quite clear. Anyway, onto the second reread…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 6, 2023

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  #carolynkeene, #middlegrade, #mysteryattheskijump, #mysteryofthemosscoveredmansion, #nancydrew, #nancydrewmysteries, #passwordtolakespurlane, #rachelreads&reviews, #theclueinthejewelbox, #theclueintheoldalbum, #theclueoftheblackkeys, #theghostofblackwoodhall, #thelueofthevelvetmask, #themessageinthehollowoak, #themysteryoftheivorycharm, #thequestofthemissingmap, #thesecretintheoldattic, #thesignofthetwistedcandles

• The Bloody Chamber (and Other Stories)

  You know how darker, sexier retellings of fairytales are all the rage? Well you have Angela Carter to thank for that subgenre in fairytale retellings with her collection of short stories that subvert and invert these popular tales to pay homage to their darker origins while making it slyly progressive. Putting the females in peril…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 5, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #angelacarter, #fairytale, #inthecompanyofwolves, #penguinrandomhouse, #pussinboots, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #thebloodychamber, #thebloodychamberandotherstories, #thecourtshipofmrlyon, #theerlking, #theladyofthehouseoflove, #thesnowchild, #thetiger’sbride, #thewerewolf, #wolfalice

• Fullmetal Alchemist Vol 11-17

  Even though the library didn’t have vol 9 or 10, I had to know what happened next and went straight for 11. Thankfully, it was easy to sum up what had happened in between though I was shocked. Armstrong has a sister!! Prince Ling’s body was taking over by Greed! May has joined up with…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 3, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #fullmetalalchemist, #fullmetaledition, #hiromuarakawa, #manga, #rachelreads&reviews, #vizmedia

• Thoughts on Chain of Thorns

  Well, I’m all caught up on The Shadowhunter Chronicles as I finished Chain of Thorns this week. So all that’s left is the final trilogy and the last book in The Eldest Curses trilogy. Woo-hoo. I must admit I procrastinated for almost the entire year before getting to CoT because the prospect of 800 pages…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 2, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #cassandraclare, #chainofthorns, #fantasy, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #thelasthours, #YA

• Warriors: Vision of Shadows

  I know, I know, it’s been awhile but someone keeps taking them out so I couldn’t read them in order. I guess it goes to show Hunter and the Warrior cats’ enduring popularity. Go them! Hunter’s next set of books pave new ground after the world-changing events of Omen of the Stars with Firestar’s death…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 23, 2023

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  ##thunderandshadow, #animalbooks, #darkestnight, #erinhunter, #harpercollins, #rachelreads&reviews, #riveroffire, #shatteredsky, #theapprentice’squest, #theraginingstorm, #visionofshadows, #warriors

• Spare me your Revenge

  You know how sometimes you see a passing feud on a tabloid and you get into it? Like it’ so vapid, so irrelevant to your own life but somehow you managed to not only read that article but then go into the rabbit hole of everything in that feud to the point that you can…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 12, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight, Reviews

  #atriabooks, #britishroyalfamily, #memoir, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #princeharry, #rachelreads&reviews, #tombower

• 80s Kids Fantasy

  For my 600th post (already!) I decided to take a trip down fantasy memory lane by reading those classic 80s favorites for the first time. They’re pretty famous so I’m not going to go into the summaries of each but discuss my thoughts on why they managed to stand the test of time. While I’ve…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 8, 2023

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  #bloomsbury, #hancourte, #penguinrandomhouse, #peters.beagle, #rachelreads&reviews, #sooz, #thelastunicorn, #theprincessbride, #thewayhome, #twohearts, #williamgoldman