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March 19, 2025April 22, 2025

Book Review — The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

https://www.maikaandmaritza.com/ Genre: YA Fiction Horror Published by: Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Publish date: 04/22/2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://www.maikaandmaritza.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Just add lemon, garlic, and a dash of the one percent.This smart, biting novel explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie …

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March 18, 2025March 19, 2025

Book Review — Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

Genre: Thriller, LGBTQIA+ Published by: William Morrow Publish date: 18 March 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s website: https://www.hannahdeitch.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives—an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion—an …

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March 17, 2025

Book Review — The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction Published by: Saga Press Publish date: Mar 18, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: https://www.demontheory.net/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the …

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March 14, 2025

Book Review — Martyr! A Novel by Kaveh Akbar

Author Photo By Beowulf Sheehan Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: January 23, 2024 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://kavehakbar.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided …

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February 16, 2025February 16, 2025

Book Review — Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan

Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Random House Publishing Group - Random House | The Dial Press Publish date: May 27 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicoladinan/?hl=en Support local! Preorder the book on BookShop! After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love …

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January 11, 2025January 10, 2025

Book Review — Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory

Genre: Romance Published by: Berkley Books Publish date: April 08, 2025 Number of pages: 416 pages Author’s website: https://www.jasmineguillory.com/flirting-lessons Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! The exciting new contemporary romance—and her first to feature a queer romance—by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine GuilloryAvery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being …

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January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

Book Review — The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

https://www.joellewellington.com/ Genre: LGBTQIAP+ | Mystery & Thrillers | Teens & YA Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Publish date: July 30, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://www.joellewellington.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adult thriller …

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November 27, 2024

Book Review — Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/152689/grady-hendrix/ Genre: Horror, Thriller Published by: Berkley Publish date: January 14, 2025 Number of pages: 496 pages Author’s website: http://www.gradyhendrix.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where …

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October 7, 2024

Book Review — You Had Me at Pet-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir by Rachel Signer

Rating: 3/5 Genre: Memoir A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion -- and falling in love -- by the publisher of Pipette Magazine. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of …

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October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Book Recs for Final Girls

What is a Final Girl? The term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987) and expanded upon in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A final girl in cinema is a woman or girl who …

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