Tag: august reading dump

• Cosy Sci-Fi Vibes in A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

  I enjoyed my read of The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers many moons ago, and A Psalm For the Wild-Built was always in the back of my mind, a book by association that one day I should pick up. Then it popped up as a book rec by one of…

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  August 21, 2025

  adult fantasy, science fiction

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• Light Academia and Dragons in Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons

  A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan is a light academia fantasy novel involving danger, discovery, and dragons. Not only is it a brilliant fantasy akin to the Emily Wilde series, but it is a touch darker, more grounded, and carries a lovely reminiscent tone due to its nature…

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  August 20, 2025

  adult fantasy, Historical Fiction

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• Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life is a Swing and a Miss For Me

  I had a feeling this might happen, but I was hoping I would be wrong. Alas, I have read Emily Henry’s recent novel Great Big Beautiful Life and been left feeling indifferent. This romance novel didn’t hit the mark for me, and even the other portion of this novel had me wishing for more. Alice…

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  August 19, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• System Collapse by Martha Wells – Murderbot’s Dramatic Finale

  Did I expect for System Collapse to be excellent, hilarious, and deeply touching? Yes. Is it? Yes – by my standards, at least. System Collapse, the seventh and final instalment in the beloved Murderbot Diaries, a series written by Martha Wells that I absolutely adore and cannot believe I didn’t start earlier. So how does…

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  August 18, 2025

  science fiction

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• Well Matched by Jen Deluca is Such A Befitting Romance

  Well, if I thought this series couldn’t get any better I was wrong. So very wrong. Well Matched, the third novel in the Ren Faire romance series by Jen Deluca, brings a hearty dose of wit, tension, conflict, longing, love, and struggle that makes this romance all the more engaging, enticing, and intriguing. To think…

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  August 17, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• How I Rate Books Across Genres

  Everyone rates books differently using their own preferences and expectations to judge where a book fits on the scale. For some, there are few 5-star reads to be found, reserved for only the best of the best across years of reading. They may not even give out a 5-star year in a given year because…

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  August 16, 2025

  Discussion Posts

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• Becka Mack’s Unravel Me Sets the Bar for Single Parent Sports Romance

  Can this series get any better? I keep thinking the the Playing for Keeps series has hit the glass ceiling because it can’t possibly reach any higher in my recommendation or my enjoyment of the books and the series, but here we are. Unravel Me has proven there is no ceiling and my regard for…

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  August 15, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• Epic Adult Fantasy in Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor

  If you are in search of an engrossing, ruthless adult fantasy to sink your teeth into, I think I have a contender for you. Seth Dickenson’s The Traitor (also called The Traitor Baru Cormorant), book one in The Masquerade series is a gritty, intense, detail-filled story that feels like a blend between The Poppy War…

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  August 14, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• Sue Minix’s Murder at the Bookstore Gives Cosy Mystery Vibes

  I do love a good murder mystery, but sometimes something light and cosy is good for the soul. When I read the blurb for Murder at the Bookstore by Sue Minix it felt like that kind of novel – quaint, a little wacky, and a decent mystery out of it. While it didn’t meet my…

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  August 13, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction

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• Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word of World is Forest is Still Relevant Today

  I came across The Word for World is Forest by Usula K. Le Guin as a short book recommendation on Bookstagram, with the novel clocking in at 190 pages or so. The little premise given mentioned “Avatar, but good” which gave me a laugh, and followed up with noting the themes of colonialism and conflict…

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  August 12, 2025

  adult fantasy, Classic Fiction, science fiction

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