Tag: #penguinrandomhouse

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 1, 2025

  Book Suggestions

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

• Isabel and the Rogue Review

  Isabel Luna is like the Jan Brady of the Brady Bunch. A middle sister longing to break out of everyone’s shadow and be more than people think of her. That’s what the author initially believed of her creation too, but as you get to know Isabel, the reader and one Captain Sirius Dovan learn there’s…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 13, 2024

  Reviews

  #berkleyromance, #fiction, #historicalfiction, #isabelandtherogue, #lianadelarosa, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #romance, #thelunasisters, book-review, books, historical-fiction

• May Books

  Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon Sophie and Nick have been best friends since they were toddlers, next door neighbors playing in the mud and blending the artistic talents as dancer and piano-player respectively to create “Terrible Twosome” performances. They know each other better than anyone, love each other and respect each other…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 31, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #acrosssomanyseas, #fredaceves, #historicalfiction, #middlegrade, #ouryearofmaybe, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachellynnsolomon, #rachelreads&reviews, #ruthbehar, #simon&schuster, #thenewdavidespinoza, #wecan’tkeepmeetinglikethis, #YA

• Elizabeth Lim Interview

  Elizabeth Lim is the best-selling author of the East Asian-inspired, Six Crimson Cranes and Her Radient Curse as well as several books in the Twisted Tales series. She kindly took the time for a quick interview about her influences, editing her first anathology and her upcoming work. Enjoy! 1. What was the first book(s)/writer that…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 2, 2024

  Interview

  #disneyhyperion, #elizabethlim, #harpercollins, #herradientcurse, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #sixcrimsoncranes, #twistedtales, #wildswans, #YA

• March Books

  My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor Sonia’s memoir is a thoughtful reflection of Sonia’s life and career beginning with her childhood in the Bronx and her parents’ complicated relationship. One bourne out of love but had turned sour when she was 6 due to her father’s alcoholism, being poor, and the need for medicine for…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 31, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #angeladavis, #autobiography, #badfeminist, #essays, #gloriasteinem, #memoir, #myautobiography, #mybelovedworld, #mylifeontheroad, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #roxanegay, #soniasotomayor, #womenshistory

• Feb Books

  All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr This poetry follows in the vein of Elizabeth Acevedo with short prose that pack a punch. Makes sense as Sawyerr thanks Acevedo for her mentorship and help in the acknowledgements. But Sawyerr’s work stands on its own as she tackles the difficult topic of assault and what…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 29, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #allthefightingparts, #avonbooks, #breatheandcountbackfromten, #contemporaryromance, #hannahvsawyerr, #harpercollins, #janeausten, #joyagoffney, #myweekwithhim, #nataliasylvester, #nikkipayne, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #retelling, #senseandsensibility, #sexliesandsensibility, #YA

• Soul of the Deep Review

  Happy blog anniversary to me! Can you believe it’s been two years. time flies. Anyway, it’s been several months since Simidele made her deal with oisa of the dead, Olokun, that in exchange for helping to capture Esu, she will keep him company in the Land of the Dead. The bitter currents never leave her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 26, 2024

  Reviews

  #fantasy, #mermaids, #natashabowen, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #soulofthedeep, #westafricanmythology, #YA, #yorubamythology

• Skin of the Sea Review

  Simidele is one of Yemoja’s Mami Wata, mermaids who collects the souls of the dead tossed from ships and blesses their journeys to the beyond. But Simidele remembers her life as a human, in bits and pieces, she is the only one who doesn’t want to let the water wash away her memories as it…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 25, 2024

  Reviews

  #fantasy, #mamiwata, #mermaids, #natashabowen, #oisha, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #skinofthesea, #westafricanmythology, #YA, #yorubamythology

• Jan Books

  Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon Sunny G is still reeling fom his brother’s death a few months before. It doesn’t help that his family have had no discussions about this. Between the Punjab way of not dealing with those issues and the Sikh belief that death just is, a natural…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 1, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #don’treadthecomments, #ericsmith, #inkyardpress, #macmillan, #mitaliperkins, #muppetsinmoscow, #natashalancerogoff, #navdeepsinghdhillon, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #sunnyg’sseriesofrashdecisions, #therowman&littlefieldpublishinggroup, #YA

• Dear Justyce Review

  Quan has been in and out of the incarceration system since he was 11. He came from home of trauma with a mom in an abusive relationship and a dad who is there for him until one night he gets carted off to jail, the night that lives in QUan’s nightmares. Despite Quan’s best efforts…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 13, 2024

  Reviews

  #dearjustyce, #nicstone, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA