Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
Title: A Thousand ShipsAuthor: Natalie HaynesPublication Date: 2019Publishing House: Harper Perennial I’ve had this book for a while on my to read shelf and I finally read it. This is a retelling of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women. Synopsis: This is the women’s war, just as much as it
Title: The CartographersAuthor: Peng ShepherdPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: William Morrow This book is one that caught my eye at random at the library and it had me hooked. Support your local library and read what makes you happy. Synopsis: What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography.
Title: Tress of the Emerald SeaAuthor: Brandon SandersonPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: Dragonsteel Entertainment If you have been following this blog for a while you know that I fell in love with the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. When I heard that he was publishing some standalone novels in The Cosmere, this is the shared universe
Title: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other StoriesAuthor: Susanna ClarkePublication Date: 2006Publishing House: Bloomsbury USA I recently read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and I was excited to see that the library had this book by her as well. Synopsis: Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics’ favorite “Jonathan Strange & Mr
Title: Spells for ForgettingAuthor: Adrienne YoungPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: Delacorte Press I got this book from Book of the Month as an additional book for my birthday. I read it in a cabin on a rainy spring weekend. My setting was not required but it did add something extra. Synopsis: A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral
Title: The Fork, The Witch, and The WormAuthor: Christopher PaoliniPublication Date: 2018Publishing House: Penguin Books I read the Inheritance Cycle books starting in middle school and the last one, Inheritance, was released in 2011. I’ve known about The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm for a while but I hadn’t stumbled across it until recently. It
Title: Woman of LightAuthor: Kali Fajardo-AnstinePublication Date: 2022Publishing House: One World This was a Book of the Month book but I didn’t get it from there. My to read shelf, is a bit over flowing and so I didn’t order it initially but I saw it again at my favorite used bookstore and decided it needed
Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellAuthor: Susanna ClarkePublication Date: 2004Publishing House: Bloomsbury USA Back in January I read Nail Gaiman’s The View from the Cheap Seats. And in addition to Gaiman suggesting some great bands, he also talks about other books. Some of those books are ones he read and some, like this one, he read
Title: A Fire EndlessAuthor: Rebecca RossPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: Harper Voyager This the second book in the Elements of Cadence series. This is a duology, so the second book is the last book in the series. I got the first book in the series, A River Enchanted, from Book of the Month. This book I picked
Title: The Secret HistoryAuthor: Donna TarttPublication Date: 1992Publishing House: Vintage Contemporaries I’ve read this book before but it has been a while. It hadn’t been on my list of things to reread until recently when I went down a rabbit hole about the dark academia aesthetic. I do have a copy of this book but
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