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  • Twisted Tale Novellas Review

    These novellas are only available in the UK for some reason. I don’ understand why they couldn’t include them in the US anthology book. Feels very arbitrary and obviously forces me to pay extra for shippimg just so I can see what these short stories are about. Nonetheless, I can say I have read almost…

  • 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…

  • Reading Log 2023

    Last year, I read an amazing 500 books so this year it was only reasonable that I reach a little more and try to get to 600. I didn’t. I got to 700 books!! And yes, maybe it’s considered “cheating” if you count those graphic novels and lower grade books that are easy to read…

  • Oct Books

    The Moonlit Vine by Elizabeth Santiago Santiago’s debut novel begins with the conquest of the Caribbean as Anacoana’s daughter watches the conquistadors burn down her kingdom. She and her own daughter are in hiding and she gifts her with a zemi that will protect her and connect her to her ancestors. In the present day,…

  • The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina Review

    So I was so so excited to get this book. It’s like the ONLY book I’ve ever read that has Ecuadorian characters.  It’s always Mexican/Dominican/Puerto Rican since those are the most common in the US. But this was a whole family of them. Plus the family and the author were from Guayaquil, Ecuador! Just where my…