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Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #5

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #5

This year I read two books at very different times, but in some ways inextricably paired: PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS by Dara Horn in January and THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN by Adam Mansbach in September/October. THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN was screamingly funny; PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS was bittersweetly nonfiction. Sometimes you walk around a problem […]

Posted December 31, 2023 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #2

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #2

Andrew Joseph White had his second book out this year, and it was a BIG EVENT this summer when my roommate went to pick up my Booksweet preorder and came home with THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, White’s second YA book. Less gory but more visceral than HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, I devoured this book […]

Posted December 28, 2023 by geograph in Local / 0 Comments
Book Review: My Government Means to Kill Me

Book Review: My Government Means to Kill Me

You cannot read this as an ebook. You need to get a physical copy, because this book is stuffed with footnotes; footnotes about the time that it’s set in, footnotes to help you better understand the book. Instead of a historical fiction novel that takes place fully in the past, the author acknowledges that people […]

Posted November 20, 2022 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Modern Asian Baking At Home

Modern Asian Baking At Home

There is SUCH a wide variety of recipes in here, and I really appreciated all the different uses for matcha especially, and the wide variety of cheesecakes. The instructions are easy to follow and the book is formatted very well, so that ingredients and instructions don’t co-mingle on the page. I love the asides by […]

Posted November 19, 2022 by geograph in cookbook, review / 0 Comments
Book Review: In the Event of Love

Book Review: In the Event of Love

Look. This is the perfect holiday Hallmark queer love story your heart wants. It’s like AS SEEN ON TV but infinitely better because it’s two girls kissing and one of them is a lumberjack. Lumberjane? It’s heartwarming, sappy-sweet, and why did this come out in August? It’s because you need to buy it ahead of […]

Posted November 15, 2022 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Book Review: Booked on a Feeling

Book Review: Booked on a Feeling

The thing about requesting romance novels on NetGalley is that later you have to review them. Most of the time I feel so stupidly neutral about a straight romance that I feel like a zombie walking around going “I had fun! It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad!” I read this as an audiobook egalley […]

Posted November 13, 2022 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Book Review: Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Book Review: Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Hey. Hey, you. Did you know that “cozy” as a genre descriptor no longer applies to Just Mysteries? That’s right, we’ve got cozy romances now, we’ve got cozy fantasy, and even, incredibly, cozy sci-fi by the incredible and inimitable Becky Chambers. The only flaw about this book is that it’s so short, and also I […]

Posted November 12, 2022 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments