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#TBR Challenge – Location, Location, Location: White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages follows The Green Glass Sea, a middle grade book about a lonely young girl, Dewey, whose father is working on the Manhattan Project. In 1946, World War II has ended; Dewey and her … Continue reading →

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#TBR Challenge – Rizz: The Gentleman’s Book of Vices by Jess Everlee

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Victoria Janssen

The Gentleman’s Book of Vices by Jess Everlee was very fun and I will definitely seek out more of this author’s work. It’s a male/male romance set in 1883 London. Extrovert Charlie Price is embedded in a small community of … Continue reading →

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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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#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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TBR Challenge – It’s a Party!: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

My choice for December’s TBR Challenge book is Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake, in which ex-fiancées end up stuck in the same house for Christmas holiday fun. I chose the book because it has professional musician characters; … 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 – What a Wonderful World: The White Mosque: A Memoir by Sofia Samatar

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

What a Wonderful World: The White Mosque: A Memoir by Sofia Samatar (2022) hasn’t actually been on my TBR for very long; I just couldn’t wait any longer! I’ve been a fan of her poetic prose since reading her 2013 … Continue reading →

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