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Welcome, 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 by Jami Fairleigh
There’s something magical about the fresh start a new year brings, isn’t there? Right now, 2025 is like a blank journal. A journal where nothing's been written. Everything is still possible. It’s also like stepping onto a beach at sunrise,...Read More
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Book Review: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong The Teller of Small Fortunes: Ace Books (2024) 336 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She...Read More
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Book Review: Electric Trees by Melissa Bobe

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Electric Trees by Melissa Bobe Electric Trees: The Hive Press (2021) 288 Pages Amazon | not available at Bookshop.org Book Description This book has monsters and murders, elephants and polar bears and wolves, of a kind. It has crappy jobs...Read More
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Breaking Free from a Reading Slump

Posted on December 13, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Ah, the dreaded reading slump—a state every book lover encounters at some point. It’s as if your enthusiasm for stories goes dormant, leaving you staring at your TBR pile with disinterest. Nothing sounds good. You may open several, but you...Read More
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Book Review: The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence The Book That Broke the World: Ace (2024) 380 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description The Library spans worlds and times. It touches and joins distant places. It is memory and future....Read More
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Book Review: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders

Posted on November 29, 2024November 27, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders Tordotcom (2021) | Macmillan Audio (2021) 240 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org | Audible | Libro.fm Book Description The world is on fire. So tell your story. Things are scary right now....Read More
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Book Review: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy

Posted on November 15, 2024November 6, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy The Sapling Cage: The Feminist Press at CUNY (2024) | Dreamscape Media (2024) 343 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org | Audible | Libro.fm Book Description Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic,...Read More
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Book Review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Posted on November 8, 2024November 6, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet: Vintage (2020) 320 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of...Read More
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Book Review: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune Somewhere Beyond the Sea: Tor Books (2024) 416 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org | Audible | Libro.fm Book Description Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s...Read More
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Book Review: Familiaris by David Wroblewski

Posted on October 25, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Familiaris by David Wroblewski Familiaris: Blackstone Publishing Inc. (2024) 992 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble ... again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with...Read More
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Book Review: Dune by Frank Herbert

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
Dune by Frank Herbert Dune: Chilton Books (1965) 720 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's...Read More
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Book Review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins American Dirt: Flatiron Books (2020) 400 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And...Read More

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