Review: The Story of Mina Lee – The Monotony of the Great American Dream

Title: The Last Story of Mina LeeAuthor: Nancy Jooyoun KimPublisher: Park Row Books Genre(s): Fiction, Historical FictionSubject(s)/Themes(s): Asian-American immigrantsRepresentation: Korean MCs (ownvoices) Release Date: September 1st, 2020Page Count: 384 (hardback)Rating: 4.0/10 Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and …

Mini Reviews (and a Reading Woe): The Shadows by Alex North & Red Heir by Lisa Henry

How does one...read a book? If anyone has suggestions, please feel free to mail out a note to my brain detailing step-by-step instructions, as the poor thing has clearly forgotten. Which, turns out, is a bit of an inconvenience when you're trying to run a book blog. It's not that I don't have the time …

Review: Docile – Important and Poignant Enough to Write a Poem For (Which I Did)

Title: Docile Author: K.M. Szpara Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Speculative Fiction Subject(s): Consent, BDSM, LGBTQ+ (main and secondary) Release Date: March 3rd, 2020 Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 9.0/10       To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a …

OMG That Song Tag

Aurora tagged me for this a lifetime ago (thank you!) and it's been two lifetimes since I've posted a tag, so I figured this would be a good place to start!   [MY JAM] A song you have to listen to no matter how many times you’ve heard it Rachel Platten's Stand by You because …

Top 5 Wednesday – Favourite Hopepunk Books of 2018

“Top 5 Wednesday” is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes in which you list your top 5 for the week’s chosen topic. This week's a freebie so I made up my own prompt: Favourite hopepunk books of 2018. And I kind of chose it to showcase books that I …

Review: The Wolf in the Whale – An Inuk, Three Wolves, and a Viking Walk into an Igloo (And Go On a Soul-Searching Journey)

Title: The Wolf in the Whale Author: Jordanna Max Brodsky Publisher: Redhook Release Date: January 29th, 2019 Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical Fiction Subjects and Themes: Inuit Mythology, Norse Mythology Page Count: 560 (paperback) Rating: 8.5/10     Born with the soul of a hunter and the spirit of the Wolf, Omat is destined to follow in …

DNF Review: Here and Now and Then – Your Name Is What Now?

Title: Here and Now and Then Author: Mike Chen Publisher: MIRA Release Date: January 29th, 2019 Genre(s): Sci-Fi Subjects and Themes: Time Travel, Families Page Count: 336 (hardback) Rating: DNF @ 37%     Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect …

Review: Alice Isn’t Dead (A Novel) – A Road Trip Like No Other

Title: Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel Author: Joseph Fink Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: October 30th, 2018 Genre(s): Horror, Mystery Subjects and Themes: Road Trip, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 336 (hardback) Rating: 7/10       Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, …

October 2018 Wrap-Up – Book Things & Art as a Double-Edged Sword

It's the middle of the month...and you know what that means! 😀 So, I was going to include mini reviews for some of the games I played in the past month because Nicole @ Thoughts Stained With Ink was like, "Heck yeah! You should totally do that!" But the post was getting kinda long and …

Top 5 Wednesday – Books I Want to Read Before 2019

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes in which you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. This week's topic is "Books You Want to Read Before 2019." Short answer? All of them. But I don't think a list of five different spreadsheets cataloguing …