Rachel Reads & Reviews

History Mystery P2

The second half of the series gets a little bit darker. The mysteries involve dangerous individuals whose actions are not explained away as a misunderstanding or bitterness. Often there is real hate or greed motivating them, and they have the weapons to back them up if others get in their way. There is more exploration…

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January 20, 2025

Book Suggestions

#alisonhart, #americangirl, #barbarasteiner, #betrayalatcrosscreek, #circleoffire, #dangeratthewildwestshow, #dangstersatthegrandatlantic, #elizabethmcdavidjones, #enemyinthefort, #evelyncoleman, #ghostlightongraveyardshoal, #historicalfiction, #historymystery, #kathleenernst, #kathrynreiss, #middlegrade, #mysteryatchilkootpass, #mysteryonskullisland, #pleasantcompany, #rachelreads&reviews, #riddleoftheprariebride, #sarahmastersbuckey, #scholastic, #thestrangecaseofbabyh, #whistlerinthedark
History Mystery P1

I have discussed this a little bit in my historical fiction pages but as I’m rereading this for the first time in years, I thought I’d go a little more in-depth with my thoughts. For those that are not in the know, History Mystery was a 1997 spin-off of Pleasant Company’s very popular American Girl…

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January 12, 2025

Book Suggestions

#eleanorae.tate, #elizabethmcdavidjones, #evelyncoleman, #historymystery, #hollyhughes, #hoofbeatsofdanger, #katherineayers, #kathleenernst, #meganmcdonald, #middlegrade, #mysteryatthedarktower, #rachelreads&reviews, #sarahmastersbuckey, #scholastic, #secretsof26thstreet, #shadowsintheglasshouse, #smuggler’streasure, #theminstrel’smelody, #thenightflyers, #troubleatfortlapointe, #undercopp’shill, #voicesatwhisperbend, #watcherinpineywoods
Reading Goals 2025

I’m beginning this year with my feel-good favorite by Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year. This is the tenth year in a row I’ve read it and just the sort of comfort-reading one needs when faced with so much uncertainty in the world. This year I truly mean it when I say I want to…

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January 1, 2025

Book Suggestions

#contemporaryromance, #disneyhyperion, #fairytales, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #retelling, #scholastic, #simon&schuster, #YA
Reading Log 2024

1, 212 books! Or 1, 213. I forgot if added The Making of Gone with the Wind to my count as the last book of the year, and I’m too tired to recount everything again. Still, you read that right. Over a 1,000 books in one year. If you don’t believe look down below at…

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December 31, 2024

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Dec Books

Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson Storm is my favorite Marvel superheroine. In fact she may have been the first Marvel superhero I was exposed to. I mean she’s just so striking with the white hair, the glowing eyes, the weather powers. She’s so awesome, the goddess moniker is well earned. But…

rachelbeerwoman

December 30, 2024

Book Suggestions

#appleinthemiddle, #marvel, #northdakotastateuniversitypress, #rachelreads&reviews, #simonandschuster, #stormdawnofagoddess, #tiffanydjackson, #unbecoming, #xmen, #YA
Book of the Month: Hitwoman #3-4

We did it! We did it! We finished our final book club selection, making it twenty books in one year. Yay us! Well technically, it’s twenty one as #3 of the Hitwoman series, The Hitwoman gets Lucky is a novella of 80 pages so it made sense to continue on to #4 which is a…

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December 29, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#actioncomedy, #avonbooks, #confessionsofaslightlyneurotichitwoman, #jblynn, #rachelreads&reviews, #thehitwomanandthefamilyjewels, #thehitwomangetslucky, #theneurotichitwomanseries
Dahlia Adler Interview

Dahlia Adler is the author, editor, anathologist among other hats for The Radleigh University trilogy, Cool for the Summer, His Hideous Heart anathology, Going Bicoastal and other YA books specializing in queer, Jewish representation. She graciously took the time before Hannakuh to answer my questions about representation, behind the scenes process to anathologies and what’s…

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December 24, 2024

Interview

#comeasyouare, #coolforthesummer, #dahliaadler, #girlsinsports, #goingbicoastal, #hishideousheart, #homefieldadvantage, #jewishrep, #queerrep, #rachelreads&reviews, #underthelights, #YA
Asgardians: Thor Review

As Thor attempts to traverse a river, he is forced to prove to a grouchy, mysterious old man that he is truly the one and only, mighty Thor!

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December 23, 2024

Reviews

#asgardians, #firstsecondbooks, #georgeo'connor, #graphicnovel, #norsemythology, #rachelreads&reviews, #thor
Ranking The Gilded Age Heiresses

The last romance series of the year brings the former colonies to its English roots with the Crenshaw family touring England for a vaction. Unbeknowst to the girls, the true intention behind the trip is for their social climbing parents to marry them off to entitled gentlemen. Well, August and Violet aren’t going down without…

rachelbeerwoman

December 21, 2024

Rankings

#avonromance, #gildedageromance, #harperst.george, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #thedevilandtheheiress, #theduchesstakesahusband, #thegildedageheiresses, #theheiressgetsaduke, #theladytemptsanheir
Star Power

As part of my nostalgia year, I decided to finally look at a series that keeps popping up on Goodreads suggestions when I filter Hollywood, celebrity etc. It was for lower schoolers in the vein of Hannah Montana and such. After all these years of reading the summaries I had to find out what they…

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December 19, 2024

Book Suggestions

#cathyhapka, #celebrity, #hollywood, #lowergrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #starpower