BooksandLala

It's been seven years since my love of Katherine House got to happen and now she's coming out with Peanut.

I read and fell in love with Mrs. Death, Mrs. Death by Selena Godden.

Elsie Silver, I read Fever Dream, didn't like it, but there's a sequel coming out called Midnight Rush.

Very excited to read this because I love Best Offer Wins and it's about people who are fighting for a job.

I love the Geom Magician, and I'm so excited to read a sequel.

I feel like the vibe of it is very much Natural Beauty, Lakewood, which are two books that I absolutely love.

Mona Aad 2. That would be a good comp. Like All's Well and the descent into craziness and the theatrics of it all.

I feel like the vibe of it is very much Natural Beauty, Lakewood, which are two books that I absolutely love.

I don't think it does anything unique, but it definitely makes sense in the current landscape of media.

It's not going to be on a list of my favorite books of the year, but it's a solid haunted house story. Like, I wouldn't hesitate to put it in a list of haunted house stories that you should read.

I did a tentacle vlog where I read books that had to do with tentacles. favorites, again at four stars, are Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Soul of the Octopus.

Then I'd probably put The Luminous Dead, which has two characters who are going into these like cave tunnels. It's just way too long and way too boring, and there was some interesting moments, but overall it was just like learning about people's backstory and like their communication, their relationship, when they'd never met, and it just wasn't for me.

My favorite I think I would say Helpmeet with four stars.

And then my favorite, another speculative romance-forward story, Every Version of You, my only five-star. It isn't a perfect book. It does also have its flaws.

My favorite unexpectedly is The North Star, but that was a four star.

And then my least favorite of the quarter is Dear Monster Claus. It was just really badly written. I'm so sorry that is a fact that I had to endure, but I'm saving other people from having to read it.

my favorite from that video with a four was Swift and Shadow.

My favorite I think I would say Wordslut by Amanda Montell. What this did really do for me is give me origins of language, and especially words like the more feminine versus masculine words that have become used as insults or slurs over time.

My favorite of all of the episodes was Appetite by P. Pramoedya. So, this one is about a woman who works in a kitchen and is just trying to figure out their life and their passions and their ambition... it's just this kind of feel-good journey, especially with a career focus, and I really liked it.

I did a tentacle vlog where I read books that had to do with tentacles. favorites, again at four stars, are Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Soul of the Octopus.

My favorite from those two videos I think I'd say Queenie by Candice Carty Williams, though there were a good amount of four stars and this was a four star.

I think in the sixth spot, I would pop Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. This is a story set in the near future, also kind of current day, just over a decent chunk of time with this woman who is trying to figure out well, at first, where her friends have gone, for second, if there's like doppelgangers in kind of a different version of reality.

In the second worst spot I would put Trope Sick. This was exhausting. These two people are writing a book together, but it was so high drama the entire time and it was just ramping up and ramping up and ramping up and it was so extremely stressful.

In my five spot, I would pop The Examiner. This was most successful as like a story of art students and the tension between them, how they're all living different lives, a correspondence, less about the actual mystery itself.