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Jess Phoenix's illustrated book cover for Tirzah Price's Jane Austen Murder Mysteries.

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New Young Adult Releases! (June 27th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

You Won't Believe Me by Cyn Balog

Plus One by Kelsey Rodkey

The Shadow Sister by Lily Meade

The Quiet Part Out Loud by Deborah Crossland

Someone You Loved by Robin Constantine

Gloria Buenrostro Is Not My Girlfriend by Brandon Hoàng

Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton

What Happens After Midnight by K.L. Walther

Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson

House Party by Various

Monstrous by Sarah Myer

New Sequels:

Manslaughter Park (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #3) by Tirzah Price

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Happy reading!

[chardwic]

Books I've Read in 2023: Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brilliant idea, conceived and executed by a clever young woman, must be claimed by a man.”

[razreads]

Don't let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.

Tirzah Price, Sense and Second-Degree Murder

[readingoals]

Pride and Premeditation is a fun lil riff on Pride and Prejudice! The murder mystery made for an interesting backdrop to plonk all the characters into, and it ended up not going where I expected it to, which I think can be difficult to achieve in retellings. There was one point around halfway or so through where the author made A Choice that felt very out of character and I did worry that the book was about to make a turn for the worse and end up being disappointing. But as it turned out I needn't have worried lmao.

Aside from that moment (which again, made sense in the full context of the book) I felt that characterizations were really good and kept in line with the original text. Bingley was especially well done - there were moments where I could hear the actor from the '95 mini series saying his lines. The setting was anachronistic but intentionally so, which made bits of the plot easier to believe and it really worked well for the most part. The one thing that had me side eyeing it a little were some of the ages. Not sure they totally matched made sense but also not a big enough thing to make me stop reading. Plus it's defs aimed at a YA audience so having everyone be a bit younger fits.

Overall very fun and cute! Will defs be checking out the rest of the series!

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Favorite Books from Different Series

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Monthly Reading Summary – July 2024

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Read of Sense and Second-Degree Murder by Tirzah Price (2022) (397pgs)

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Review: Sense and Second-degree Murder by Tirzah Price

Sense and Second-Degree Murder (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #2)Tirzah PriceHarperCollinsPublished April 5, 2022 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About Sense and Second-Degree Murder When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his office study, she knows his death means dire straits for the Dashwood women. To make matters worse, an…

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Yearly Book Wrap-Up 2023

This is my first time posting on here when it comes to anything personal or related to my interests. Considering this was a big year for me, not only in books but in other areas of life as well, I figured I'd share my book-wrap up for this year.

Ever since finishing my bachelors degree I'd started on my book journey once again. While it had continued during college, it never really felt the same, not until I had graduated. Slowly, year by year, I started to read more book. It had begun to feel how it felt in high school, constantly reading and enjoying myself as I did so.

This year's goal for me was: 40 Books

This year's read count: 55 Books!

I surpassed my goal by 15 books, an achievement I never imagined I would reach. This year I truly felt I was a voracious reader and I could not be any happier.

Under the cut you'll find the books I read this year in order, along with my rating. No reviews as I like to move on to the next book. But if anyone has any question or wishes to talk feel free to on this post in any way or my asks are also open. I hope other's can findthis post for their own enjoyment as well.

Without further ado -

My Book Wrap-Up 2023

January

Space Boy Volume 1 by Stephen McCranie ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Flash Fire by TJ Klune ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tell Me It's Real by TJ Klune, art by Jakky ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

February

Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

March

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hardcore Self Help: Fuck Anxiety ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit by Jesse Q. Sutanto ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (re-read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn ⭐⭐

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

April

Dragon's Reign by Raythe Reign/X. Aratare ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Comic Book by Leighton Gray et al. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

May

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

An Unexpected Kind of Love by Hayden Stone ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Sun and The Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

June

Gentleman's Club by N.T. Hergott ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sparrow Rising by Jessica Khoury ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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🗞️📖 Bookish News - February Edition

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! Check below the cut for details.

Adaptations: 🗞️ Chloé Zhao will direct a film adaptation of Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal 📖 HBO is adapting Dark Places (Gillian Flynn) as a limited series. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner 🗞️ FX has ordered a limited series adaptation of Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe), directed by Michael Lennox 📖 Taika Waititi will direct an adaptation of Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), potentially starring Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega 🗞️ The Terror will base season 3 on The Devil in Silver (Victor LaValle) 📖 The Man in My Basement (Walter Mosley), directed by Nadia Latif, will star Anna Diop, Corey Hawkins, and Willem Dafoe 🗞️ Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) has a trailer 📖 America Ferrera's feature directorial debut for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika Sánchez) is in development 🗞️ The adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down (John Green) will stream on MAX this year 📖 Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles (R. V. Bowman) is getting a live-action adaptation 🗞️ Interview with the Vampire (based on Anne Rice's novel) is getting a second season 📖 Percy Jackson and the Olympians is getting a second season 🗞️ Seven Days in June (Tia Williams) is being adapted for Prime Video 📖 The adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow, (Amor Towles) will star Ewan McGregor 🗞️ The Color Purple movie musical will stream on MAX (Feb. 16) 📖 Hulu’s adaptation of A Court of Thorns and Roses was axed 🗞️ The Alex Van Helsing YA books are being adapted for a television series 📖 Ryan Reynolds and Paramount are working on an adaptation of Starter Villain (John Scalzi) 🗞️ A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) will be adapted as an animated TV series 📖 The trailer for the film adaptation of Wicked is up 🗞️ Netflix renewed Survival of the Thickest for season 2 📖 The cast for Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been announced (July 25, 2025) 🗞️ The trailer for the new X-Men animated series is up (Mar. 20) 📖 The Oscar-nominated animated film Nimona is now available to watch for free on YouTube! 🗞️ Reese Witherspoon is producing a film adaptation of Romantic Comedy (Curtis Sittenfeld) 📖 Photos are up for the adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Holly Jackson)

Cover Reveals: 🗞️ When Haru Was Here - Dustin Thao (Sept. 3) 📖 Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass (July 23) 🗞️ The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Oct. 8) 📖 The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich (Dec. 10) 🗞️ Colored Television - Danzy Senna (July 30) 📖 Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me - Whoopie Goldberg (May 7) 🗞️ House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias (Aug. 6) 📖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar (Nov. 12) 🗞️ Night Owls - A.R. Vishny (Sept. 17) 📖 The Dixon Rule - Elle Kennedy (May 14) 🗞️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen (Aug. 27) 📖 The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel (Sept. 24) 🗞️ In Want of a Suspect - Tirzah Price (Nov. 12) 📖 Memorials - Richard Chizmar (Oct. 22) 🗞️ The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (Sept. 24) 📖 Unsinkable Cayenne - Jessica Vitalis (Oct. 29) 🗞️ Cue the Sun! - Emily Nussbaum (June 25) 📖 We're Alone - Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3) 🗞️ The Sherlock Society - James Ponti (Sept. 3) 📖 The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes (May 21) 🗞️ The Baby-sitters Club: Kristy and the Walking Disaster - Ellen T. Crenshaw (Sept.) 📖 The Baby-sitters Litter Sister: Karen’s Grandmothers - DK Yingst (Oct.) 🗞️ The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science - Kate McKinnon (Oct. 1) 📖 The Life Impossible - Matt Haig (Sept. 3) 🗞️ Ruin Road - Lamar Giles (Sept.) 📖 Yours Truly by Katie Shepard (Sept. 3) 🗞️ Wishbone - Justine Pucella Winan (Sep. 17) 📖 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts (Oct. 8) 🗞️ The Dividing Sky - Jill Tew (Oct. 8) 📖 Heir - Sabaa Tahir (Oct. 1) 🗞️ Beautiful Dreamers - Minrose Gwin (Aug. 27) 📖 We Solve Murders - Richard Osman (Fall) 🗞️ Till the Last Beat of My Heart - Louangie Bou-Montes (Sept. 10) 📖 Aisle Nine by Ian X (Sept. 24) 🗞️ Warrior of Legend - Kendare Blake (Sept. 17) 📖 The Ancient’s Game - Loni Crittenden (Oct. 29) 🗞️ The Witch of Wol Sin Lake - Lega Jeong (Oct. 29)

Upcoming Releases: 🗞️ Tiny Reparations Books has secured North American rights to two new books by National Book Award–longlisted author LaToya Watkins. The first book, The Book of Chuck, will be published in spring 2026. 📖 Tia Williams has sold North American rights to two new novels to Grand Central. 🗞️ LeVar Burton is releasing two new books

Other News: 🗞️ The Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 longlist is up 📖 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced 🗞️ The finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards were announced 📖 Pulitzer-winning author N. Scott Momaday passed away (first Native American author to win a Pulitzer) 🗞️ OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive for allegedly stealing 2.2 TB of data from WorldCat 📖 The St. Paul Public Library launched a laser-eyed loon library card 🗞️ Writers Against the War on Gaza have written an open letter to PEN/America to release an official statement about the “225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars, and novelists killed in Gaza” by Israeli forces 📖 Andy Weir released a series of “lost” journal entries from Mark Watney to celebrate The Martian’s 10th anniversary 🗞️ Amazon removed multiple titles about King Charles’ recent cancer diagnoses amid concerns that they were written by AI 📖 This year’s winners and finalists of the Cybils Awards were announced 🗞️ Delacorte is launching a new YA romance imprint

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New Releases: June 27, 2023

Molly’s Tuxedo by Vicki Johnson Buy it: Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price This is the third book in the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries series, and the first with a queer (bi) protag. Aspiring artist Fanny Price is an unwelcome guest at her uncle Sir Thomas Bertram’s estate. It’s his affection for Fanny that’s keeping her from being forced out by her cousins Tom and Maria and nasty Aunt Norris, back…

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I'm listening to a Pride and Prejudice au book that I found randomly that seemed vaguely interesting and it's actually super interesting. I have absolutely zero idea about how historically accurate it is but I'm intrigued by where it will go.

Basically Lizzie dreams of being a barrister and thinks if she can gather the evidence for a case on her own (that is, without Mr. Collins taking credit for her work) her father will give her a paid position at his law firm. Mr. Darcy works for a rival law firm and is working to defend Mr. Bingley, who is accused of murdering Mr. Hurst.

The book is Pride and Premonition by Tirzah Price.

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4. A few books you’d recommend??

Obviously the Secret Shanghai series and the Aru Shah books.

I'd also recommend The Jasmine Throne (adult, sapphic fantasy), Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban (adult, sapphic historical romance), The Jane Austen Murder Mysteries by Tirzah Price, the Tyme series by Megan Morrison, The Whatever After Series by Sarah Mlynowski, and some other stuff that I won't mention because I am participating in the boycott against St. Martin's Press.

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July Reading Summary

I started this month strong, but then hit a small reading-slump (well, not really, I'm just determined to get through a bad book that is bad enough that my brain will only let me read two-three chapters a day before going all blue death), so I only finished three books in July, even though, in my defense, I have about 500 more pages read thrughout three other books, two of which I hoped to finish by the end of the month, but... See above.

Ali Hazlewood: Loathe to Love You Well, it's Ali Hazelwood: you get exactly what you expect. Reasonably witty text, quirky heroines, secretly and not-so-secretly simping guys, and kinda repetitive plot. It's easy to read, pleasant like a fluffy blanket, and rather entertaining if this is your cup of tea, but nothing world-shattering.

Tirzah Price: Pride and Premeditation Or a P&P fanfic with an interesting concept: the characters are not in the posession of estates, but law offices and other businesses (and everything is set in London). Mr. Bennett heads the law firm Longbourne & Sons, and Lizzie's greatest desire is to become a barrister herself, or at least to be officially hired to work for the firm, from which she is barred on regards of her gender. However, her father promises to hire her if she can prove her worth, so when a certain Mr. Bingley is accused of killing his brother-in-law, Lizzie does her best to get him to hire her and to find the actual killer. This is a... curious concept, one I find fascinating to be honest, even though the Regency period doesn't seem to mesh well with a whodunnit mystery (I mean the whole genre was invented 20+ years after the Regency period). There were also some great scenes and ideas, but overall I think it kinda underperformed--this being a very explicit P&P retelling, the reader expects some stuff to happen, but we are so preoccupied by the mystery that some important "canon events" are simply dropped (e.g. Jane and Bingley never even meet "on screen"!).

Jennifer Worth: Farewell to the East End Okay, this a completely different league. Very much like in the case of her first memoir, most of the stories in this book are going to be familiar if you have seen the show, but there is enough stuff that didn't make it onto the screen to keep the reader interested. Also, I realied in shock, many of the stores were actually tamed for call the Midwife, so if you saw the show and then read this book, you are in for some unpleasant surprises--not to mention the chapter about Sister Monica Joan's lady's maid in the late 1800's. There is also a melancholic aspect to it, as the last chapters deal with the closure of the Nonatus House and what happened with the sisters and nurses afterwards. Great book, but not an easy read.