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#TBR CHALLENGE – Previously, In Romance…: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is an epistolary novel, with opposing time-traveling rival agents attempting to win a war. Also, they gradually fall in love. The fun of this book, for … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bitter Waters by Vivian Shaw is a novella in the Greta Helsing series about a doctor who treats supernatural beings (a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing of Dracula fame). This rather cozy installment starts off with the tragedy of … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – New Year, Who Dis?: Watson and Holmes by Karl Bollers

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

Watson and Holmes by Karl Bollers (Author), Brandon Perlow (Editor), Rick Leonardi (Artist), Larry Stroman (Artist), Khary Randolph (Artist), Paul Mendoza (Artist) is a comic series recommended to me by a Boston friend a while back. I bought it immediately, … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge 2025

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

TBR Challenge 2025 is a fun way to actually read all those books I’ve been accumulating over the years. “Your mission, should you choose to accept it: once a month pull a dormant book out of your TBR pile and … Continue reading →

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My November Reading Log

Posted on December 13, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a very cozy romantic fantasy set in a world that, to me, felt very dreamlike because there were a number of fantastical creatures with magical origins. Some of these, like the merhorses, … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – It Came From the 1990s!: Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader’s Companion

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

It Came From the 1990s!: Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader’s Companion by J. Daniel Gifford and James Gifford was published in 2000, but that’s the end of the 1990s, it counts! This is a nonfiction catalog of all the writing … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – Spooky (Gothic): All Clear by Connie Willis

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

October 16, Spooky (Gothic): All Clear by Connie Willis (2010) is the second half of Blackout, which I read for the September Drama theme. It actually does fit the Spooky theme a bit, as the characters navigate London during the … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – Drama!: Blackout by Connie Willis

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Blackout by Connie Willis came out in 2010, the first of two books that are really one book, so it ends on a cliffhanger and continues in my next month’s book, All Clear. Does it fit the theme? Oh, yes, … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – Everyday Heroes: Dancing Bearfoot by Elva Birch

Posted on August 17, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

August 21, Everyday Heroes: Dancing Bearfoot by Elva Birch is a confection, a short paranormal romance set in Alaska between single dad Leland/Lee, who owns a construction company, and his daughter’s preschool teacher, Patricia. Lee is a big bear of … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – With a Little Help From My Friends: My Dear Watson by L.A. Fields

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

May 15, With a Little Help From My Friends: My Dear Watson by L.A. Fields only somewhat fits this month’s theme, as the friendships are complex. It’s narrated by the second Mrs. John Watson. She explores a queer relationship between … Continue reading →

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