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My September Reading Log

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Payback in Death by J.D. Robb is fifty-seventh in this futuristic mystery series, and I continue to enjoy, from a writerly perspective, how Robb/Nora Roberts manages to both provide enough information for new readers and reward longtime readers with … Continue reading →

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My August Reading Log

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Encore in Death by J. D. Robb/Nora Roberts is fifty-sixth in this massive series, which I continue reading not only because it’s a comfort read for its familiar characters and justice prevailing, but because I enjoy seeing, from a … Continue reading →

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My July Reading Log

Posted on August 16, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki (Author) and Jesse Kirkwood (Translator) is set in contemporary Japan and opens with a former tv scriptwriter whose career took a downward turn; she is now writing scripts for a dating … Continue reading →

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My June Reading Log

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Welcome to Boy.net (Earth’s Shadow Book 1) by Lyda Morehouse is set in Earth’s solar system a good while after the Archangel books, long enough that most people thing Earth is largely abandoned; also, you don’t have to have … Continue reading →

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My March Reading Log

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond is a paranormal heist novel set in contemporary Kentucky. Danielle Poissant is the daughter of a renowned art thief whom she helped send to prison, which led to her being shut out of the … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Roux for Two by Aurora Rey was a cute, lowkey contemporary romance between a fat queer femme and a trans man. Chef Chelsea Boudreaux has just gotten her own show, which will be filmed in the small south Louisiana … Continue reading →

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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree is a prequel to Legends and Lattes, set early in orc narrator Viv’s career as a mercenary. When she’s sidelined in a small town by a leg wound, boredom leads her to make … Continue reading →

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My November Reading Log

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Lady And The Tiger by copperbadge is original fiction in the Shivadh universe, also published under author name Sam Starbuck; it features a romance between Lady Alanna Daskaz and the Duke of Shivadlakia, Gerald ben Eitan, known as … Continue reading →

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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker was my TBR Challenge book for October. System Collapse by Martha Wells is the new Murderbot book. I won’t spoil anything here! I definitely recommend reviewing the previous volume (Network … Continue reading →

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My September Reading Log

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

September involved some travel and other transitions for me, so I spent almost all of it reading a single series. Fanfiction: The Desert Storm by Blue_Sunshine and its sequel series are well over a million words of Star Wars time … Continue reading →

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