January reading. If you’re looking for engaging thrillers, I recommend Alperton Angels and the Blue Hour.
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I really liked The Blue Hour
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I just read The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty on a friend’s recommendation and want to recommend it to everyone now. By far the most delightful book I’ve read in a while!
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I loved that book and intend to read her other works.
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I have placed a hold at the library for it.
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I just read the Orc and the Innkeeper and don’t recommend. Awful writing and super simplistic.
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I’m 2/3 of the way through Tasha Suri’s Burning Kingdoms trilogy. If you like Sarah Maas or Rebecca Yarros I think you will love these books. Better writing, characters, and plot. Still lots of action and some romance, but not steamy like those other authors. Also, gay.
The series takes place on the Indian subcontinent, pre colonization. But with magic and a lot of kingdoms and city states that I assume are not historical.
They get dark but never overwhelmingly so. There is lots of violence but the focus isn’t on the gore. The characters grow and change in response to the things happening around them.
I recommend the series.
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I also loved it and am now reading the Daevabad trilogy. It’s all a blast.
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Oh, I’ve got to read the second book!
Not me completely missing the dropdown menu with the calendar option on Storygraph until someone else pointed it out 
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just finished Thien Pham’s Family Style, an autobiographical memoir of his life as a Vietnamese refugee and growing up in the USA.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250809728/familystyle/
The final chapter is somewhat gutting to be reading now.
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finished The Change by Kirsten Miller.
https://www.kirstenmillerbooks.com/thechangesynopsis
Revenge for angry middle aged women everywhere. Or it just might be rage inducing that it is fiction.
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February Reading! A day early but I won’t finish anything today.
The English Understand Wool was SO GOOD, I recommend to all. Taiwan Travelogue was not my personal favorite but I’d recommend to anyone who loves romance and wants something on the literary side.
I am reading The Last Samurai and enjoying it so much that I don’t want to read it? Do you all ever do that? I am all in on Helen DeWitt, so if she did an Alice Munro or Louise Erdrich*, please DM me before I get too deep.
- don’t google unless you want to be very sad!
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Yessss! This just happened to me with the 5th book of Expanse. I would be reading and then just have to put the book down because it was so good I had to stop. And I dragged out reading it for as long as possible…
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Oh god not Louise
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OH NO I’m so sorry
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No it’s good you saved me from regretting a middle name selection
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Louise Belcher is a great namesake just putting it out there
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WOW URIGHT
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