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Audiobook Break, Season 2: The Iliad!

Audiobook Break, Season 2: The Iliad with Anton Lesser! Check it out! #AmListening #Audiobooks #AudiobookBreak #TheIliad #NaxosAudio

Check out AudioFile Magazine’s Podcast, Audiobook Break. Season two, featuring Homer’s “The Iliad” narrated by Anton Lesser, set sail last week. The latest installment is available for streaming today. As an English major, it’s a bit baffling that I graduated both high school and college without ever having read or listened to a production of this ancient Greek epic. I am relishing every minute…

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Review: The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

Review: The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

Image via Netgalley A delightful, compulsively readable romcom that centers around the Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah. Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, the Christmas-loving romance novelist heroine, hides her secret love of Santa and her life with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), from family and coworkers. When her old camp arch-nemesis/first love Jacob Greenberg arrives in town to host a…

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Review: The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett

Review: The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett

The Windsor KnotSeries: Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #1Author: S.J. BennettPublisher: William MorrowMarch 9, 2021Queen Elizabeth is plunked into the midst of a murder investigation when a visiting Russian pianist is found dead in her beloved Windsor Castle. Underestimated by some of her staff and British Intelligence, SJ Bennett’s Elizabeth is part Miss Marple, part Lilibet, and part…

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Release Day: The Final Girl Support Group

Release Day: The Final Girl Support Group

The Final Girl Support Group Author: Grady Hendrix Publisher: Berkley Publishing July 13, 2021 For "Final Girl" Lynnette Tarkington, everyone except for her group of real-life Final Girls (last one standing in horror films) has the potential to be a monster. Perpetually on guard and ready with multiple survival plans, Lynnette is our point of view throughout. Fans of horror movies spanning the…

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Review: Christmas Under the Northern Lights by Annie O'Neil

Review: Christmas Under the Northern Lights by Annie O’Neil

Happy release day to Christmas Under the Northern Lights!

Scottish island holiday romance! Set five weeks out from Christmas on a far-flung Scottish island, locum District Nurse Audrey Walsh and Doctor Cooper MacAskill discover that running away from their problems sometimes delivers surprise joy and fulfillment. They both grapple with trust and self-worth, and what love means when…

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American Christmas by Adriana Herrera Enjoy holiday festivities with the adorably tenacious couple from Adriana Herrera's Dreamers series. Hardworking and selfless to a fault, can Yin and Ari allow themselves the space to receive as well as give?

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The Holiday Treatment by Elle Spencer

The Holiday Treatment by Elle Spencer

Review also posted on my Instagram: Bookish_smorgasbord

Happy release day to Elle Spencer’s The Holiday Treatment! Now available from all booksellers and public libraries (if they don’t have it, be sure to ask!) 😀

If you’ve ever clamored for queer Hallmark Christmas movies, this holiday romance between Wifetime network writer Holly Hudson (who is notoriously not into Christmas, despite penning…

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Book passage to Christmas at the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan (review) #romance #holidays #christmas #family #friendships #SmallTowns *From my Goodreads review. Jenny Colgan deftly weaves the personal narratives of the residents of Mure, a small Scottish island, as their lives shift and grow in unexpected ways.

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Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur, narrated by Lauren Sweet (audiobook review) #OppostiesAttract #ContemporaryRomance #wlw #romance #HarperAudio *From my Goodreads review.* Opposites attract in this delightful fake relationship romance set on the streets of Seattle!

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The Secret Ingredient by KD Fisher (review) *From my Goodreads review.* Adah Campbell has worked tirelessly to provide a loving, safe home for her son Pete and build a career as a chef.

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (review)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (review)

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Readers follow the journeys of different Funiculi Funicula cafe patrons as they seek the cafe’s reputed time travel ability in light of volatile personal experiences. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s thoughtful prose balances powerful emotions with the wonderful relationships between staff, new and longtime customers, without becoming saccharine. The peculiar, specific rules for time…

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Bookish Round-Up June 2020

Bookish Round-Up June 2020

I am so thankful to have access to a wide range of stories, in multiple formats. Over the past six months of 2020 I tuned into a bounty of books available from a local bookstore and the library. If your library doesn’t have what you want and/or need, ask them to get it for you. Some stuff isn’t available to libraries digitally because of publisher restrictions. Lame. If you’d like to see what…

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Jamie Anderson's humorous essays give readers a behind-the-scenes look into the life of a touring folk singer.

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Invite Gerri Hill's "The Neighbor" to your Backyard BBQ! #wlw #audiobooks #lesfic #booksthatmakemehungry Nicol Zanzarella delivers another great performance as her voice plays matchmaker between stalled writer Laura Fry and businesswoman Cassidy Anderson.

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Review: The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka

Must-read crime series featuring badass Ohio P.I. Roxane Weary: The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka #bisexualreads

“A mystery with a deadline — what could go wrong?” Ohio-based private investigator Roxane Weary stars in another incredible installment of Kristen Lepionka’s compelling crime series. Roxane makes winter season ends meet with low-stress assignments, like searching for the source of counterfeit leggings. However, as she well knows, things can heat up in an instant. Late one night her brother Andrew…

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Audiobook Review: Fixit by Erik Schubach #lesfic #audiobooks The dirt-side have-nots toil away for the needs of the 1% living luscious lives in sky cities.

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Crime Me a River: Queer women private investigators

Crime Me a River: Queer women private investigators

I’ve been on a crime novel spree over the past couple weeks. My faves include all of Kristen Lepionka’s Roxane Weary series, a Columbus, Ohio-based private investigator battling personal demons while solving paid and pro bono cases. I recommend starting with the first one (which is usually how I read series, with a few recent exceptions): The Last Place You Look. Roxane immediately became one of…