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Series
Shatter Me – A major disappointment
Book Review: Vengeful (Villains #2) – V. E. Schwab
Book Review: Vicious (Villains #1) – V.E. Schwab
An Ember in the Ashes – Ancient Rome meets Hunger Games
Retellings
Book Review: Tangleweed and Brine – Deirdre Sullivan
Book Review: Beauty – Sarah Pinborough
Alice by Christina Henry – A disturbing retelling of Alice in Wonderland
Vassa in the Night – Baba Yaga and Cinderella in Brooklyn
The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher – LGBT retelling of The Snow Queen
Book Reveiw: Ice Land – Betsy Tobin
Middle Grade
Persian Necromancer in Tahereh Mafi’s Whichwood
Furthermore – A deliciously colorful Alice in Wonderland retelling
Moonlight Magic and the Walker Witches
Sisters of Shadow and Light
The Bone Houses – Emily Lloyd-Jones
The Phantom Forest – Liz Kerin
Book Review: White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi
Book Review: Gingerbread – Helen Oyeyemi
Blog Review: Warrior of the Wild – Tricia Levenseller
Book Review: The Bone Witch – Rin Chupeco
Book Review: Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
Horror
Mothers, Mansions, & Mayhem: Voices in the Snow
Book Review: Craven Manor – Darcy Oates
Hunted – Darcy Coates
Book Review: The Shuddering – Ania Ahlborn
Book Review: Seed – Ania Ahlborn
Book Review: If You See Her – Ania Ahlborn
Thriller
Twisted thriller: The Witch Elm
Book Review: A Nearly Normal Family – M.T. Edvardsson
Book Review: A Stranger in the House – Shari Lapena
Book Review: The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
Book Review: The Lying Game – Ruth Ware
Book Review: The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
Book Review: The Night Olivia Fell – Christina McDonald
Cozy Mysteries
Her Royal Spyness: Cozy murder mystery
1920s Flapper girl ghost haunts great-niece – book review
Olive Belgrave, Lady Detective, London, 1923
YA
Middle Grade
Book Review: All the Greys on Greene Street – Laura Tucker
Retellings
Runemarks by Joanne Harris – a Norse story
Ice Age Pride & Prejudice – Ivory and Bone
Book Review: The Sun is also a Star – Nicola Yoon
Book Review: Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell
Book Review: Plaguewalker – Gemma Tarlach
Contemporary
Finding happiness…in a (deadly) survival course?
Big Brother and Black Mirror – “Followers”
Finding happiness…in a (deadly) survival course?
Librarian Love Affair and ‘momspringa’
Big Brother and Black Mirror – “Followers”
Want green card, will marry
Librarian Love Affair and ‘momspringa’
Oona Out of Order
Want green card, will marry
Oona Out of Order
Book Review: The Regulars – Georgia Clark
Fitness Junkie
Britt-Marie: Soccer coach curmudgeon
Alena by Rachel Pastan – A modern (and bad) retelling of Rebecca
Book Review: Breathe In, Cash Out – Madeleine Henry
Book Review: The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary
Book Review: Remedial Rocket Science: Susannah Nix
Book Review: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill – Abbi Waxman
Book Review : Where’d you go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
General Fiction
Mental Illness, Shock Treatments, and NYC 1950s – Sylvia Plath
Book Review: Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
Book Review: Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
Book Review: Chaos, a Fable – Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Book Review: The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Book Review: Wild – Cheryl Strayed
Nonfiction
General
Getting People to like You – FBI-style
Spy the Lie: Three Former CIA Officers Reveal Their Secrets to Uncloaking Deception
Mental Illness, Shock Treatments, and NYC 1950s – Sylvia Plath
Book Review: The Emotional Wound Thesaurus – Angela Ackerman
Science
Book Review: Proust was a Neuroscientist – Jonah Lehrer
History
The Kiwi and the Caveman: Married to a Bedouin
Book Review: Syrian Songs, Proverbs, and Stories: Collected, Translated, and Annotated from the Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol. 23, 1902, Pp. 175-288 (Classic Reprint)
Book Review: Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure – Paul Veyne
#YMERC2020
More than a poet, more than “The Prophet”
More than a poet, more than “The Prophet”
#YMERC2020 February Part 1
#YMERC2020 January Part 1
#YMERC2020 January Part 2
Ethnically Arab blogger award
The Hakawati Project: The Syrian Crisis — HyeTert
Everything you need to know about #YMERC2020
YMERC is coming
Year of the Middle East Reading Challenge (YMERC)
Middle Eastern-Inspired Fantasy Reads
#DiverseBookBloggersDiscuss: Biculturalism in YA books – Middle Eastern Indian
Graphic Novel Reviews
Middle Eastern Graphic Novels
Noir poem set in downton Cairo: The Apartment in Bab el-Louk
An Egyptian graphic Novel – El3osba
Horror Graphic Novels
When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
Graphic Novel Review: Through the Woods – Emily Carroll
Graphic Novel Review Locke and Key #1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Graphic Novel Review: Harrow County – Cullen Bunn, Tyler Cook
YA Graphic Novels
Graphic Novel Review: Teen Titans Raven – Kami Garcia
Reading the Fantasy World in a Year
Reading World Fantasy Books
Confession: I’m a Culturally Monogamous Reader
Becoming a Better Writer
Show me the glint of light
Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature – Tina Welling
In honor of NaNoWriMo: My favorite books on writing better
#DiverseBookBloggersDiscuss: Biculturalism in YA books – Middle Eastern Indian
Don’t be stale – be “cultured”
Angst, anger, and affection
Hocus Pocus Focus
Too Many Plot Points–too little words
Kill your Manuscript Softly, not Brutally
Your setting is a living character
Revision is re-envisioning
Show me the glint of light
Beta Readers
My manuscript, well, sucks
Writing is Rewriting
Bestseller Formula: heart, mind, and guts
Marketing and Strategy
How to publicize your book without spending money
Agents and Publishers
Close, so close…
The First 50 Pages
Books-in-Progress
My beta reader likes my first draft!
Hakawati Jinn – Chapter One
Hakawati Jinn – Chapter Two
Hakawati Jinn – Chapter Three
Hakawati Jinn – Chapter Four
I wrote a book!
Sarel Snippets : Chapter One
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Book Lists
In a pandemic? Read dystopian
6 Visceral Book Covers
6 Book Boss Ladies
7 Books that influenced my current writing voice
7 Moody, Lush, and Atmospheric Books
20 2020 Book Releases that aren’t YA
Russian Folklore to Persian Necromancers: Favorite Reads of 2019
Hauntings, Dark Fairytales, and Panem: 2020 Anticipated Reads
Monthly Wrap-ups
January Book Wrap-up
February Book Wrap-up
100 Followers Bookish Giveaway!
Book Giveaways beyond Goodreads
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