Shelf Reflections

First Line Friday, July 26

“The story of how I entered the world was a foreshadowing.” —All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson This[…]

Summary: The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but rather than face the music, he’s[…]

“The man on the park bench stared at the empty space above the knuckle of Nora Pennington’s pinkie finger.” –from[…]

I was recently thinking about how I used to read science fiction and fantasy almost exclusively, but in the past[…]

Recently, I was thinking about where I get my sense of humor from, and it occurred to me that a[…]

So you’ve binged the Bridgerton series on Netflix, and you’ve read all of Julia Quinn’s novels. What next? Here are[…]

Books read: The Wren in the Holly Library by K. A. LindeThe House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie MoningHow[…]

Summary: It’s bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard’s workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea[…]

“He woke up with no eyebrows and no idea how he’d gotten into such a position.” So begins Dreadful by[…]

Summary: The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves.[…]