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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: You might be surprised to know that A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher is the first book by this author I have ever read, after receiving many recommendations for her work over the past I don’t know … Continue reading →

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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis is fantasy romance novella set in an alternate nineteenth century England (Angland) where women do politics and men do magic. Humans have an uneasy truce with the powerful Elves. The protagonist Cassandra Harwood, a unique … Continue reading →

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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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