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All the Books that Blew My Mind in 2020, Part 1

So it turns out that 2020 was a pretty amazing reading year? I hadn’t really noticed because there were so many other things to occupy my brain, such as the quarantine and the election and the crumbling of American democracy, but in looking back at my reading spreadsheet I discovered that I had read a shocking number of books that needed a place on my Best Of list. There are, in fact, so many that it has necessitated me breaking this post down into two parts. This one covers my reading through like mid-June or something, and represents the number…

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Review: Realm of Ash, Tasha Suri

Since the death of the Maha, the Ambha Empire has been breaking down. The Emperor is near death, and his sons are preparing to fight to inherit his throne. Arwa is the only survivor of a fearsome supernatural massacre that killed her husband and everyone else at Darez Fort, and she has come to make her life at the widows’ refuge in Numriha. But once she’s there, she realizes that her Amrithi blood — inheritance from the biological mother she never knew; evidence that she is not the good Ambhan noblewoman she has always claimed to be — could help…

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Authors in Fandom: An Interview with Tasha Suri

I have been waiting with a reasonably good grace (I say, not at all self-congratulatorily) for the sequel to Tasha Suri’s wonderful Empire of Sand — which is about a woman called Mehr who has inherited an important power from her Amrithi mother and now must marry the servant of the very wicked Ambhan emperor. That sequel, Realm of Ash, is out tomorrow, and I absolutely cannot wait for it, knowing as I do that it’s about the younger sister of the protagonist of Empire of Sand. I love all kinds of sequels, but I particularly love the ones that…

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Review: Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri

Do y’all have those genres that you always say you don’t like, even though you have a not-insignificant number of books on your shelf in those genres? I always say I don’t like historical fiction or secondary world fantasy, I believe for the same reason in both cases, that being that I’m not good at making pictures in my head so I have a hard time submerging myself in fictional worlds. What I mean, I think, is less that I can’t enjoy historical fiction or secondary world fantasy, and more that I require to be sold a little harder on…

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday and I lost an hour of sleep and it isn’t kicking my ass this year like it did last year but I DO NOT LOVE IT. Hopefully y’all are in less crabby spirits than I am. Stop by Book Date to see what other folks are reading this dark and crabby Monday morning. What I Read Last Week: One of my reading resolutions for this year was to read fifteen of my own damn books, of which ten were to be nonfiction. I am killing it so far! In the past week, I finished reading Joan Aiken’s The…

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