Finished reading: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚
This is a beautiful homage to Pride & Prejudice, as well as to the Toronto Muslim community. A sweet love story with beautiful language. And so much tasty-sounding food and drink! Highly recommend.
Finished reading: The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller 📚
This is a lovely romance set in Gilded Age New York, where a scandalous society widow and a famous inventor fall in love as they try to exorcise a ghost from the Gothic mansion she just bought. Content warning: spousal abuse, neglectful parents, bad treatment in a mental health facility.
Finished reading: Wyngraf #1
The first issue of a cozy fantasy magazine. Full of lovely stories I very much enjoyed. Mother-daughter dragon calming, fairy diplomacy, what happens 20 years after you save the world, and more. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo 📚
Gorgeous graphic version of the Darkling’s origin story.
Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale 📚
A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.
Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond 📚
Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent hijinks. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 📚
My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your takes on him, please, I know his flaws). Reading Terry Pratchett feels like visiting a treasured friend. A lot of fun here.
Finished reading: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow 📚
This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I was all in. Super fun while also dealing with all the ways our stories can be garbage. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚
I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less about art-making than I expected. It’s also excellent.
Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders 📚
I love this so much! Charlie Jane Anders says to invent imaginary friends to hang out with and write about them, which inspired me to write stories about characters friends and I invented a while back and now almost 10K words later I feel capable of writing fiction again. Highly recommend.
