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Fantasy
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
Dead Voices
Small Spaces
Suspect Red – Commies and the Red Scare
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
Snow Lands on Top
Jewish boy, Muslim girl
Fangirl – Not a (complete) fan
Breakfast Club YA Thriller – All your Twisted Secrets
Book Review: The Sun is also a Star – Nicola Yoon
Book Review: Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell
Book Review: Plaguewalker – Gemma Tarlach
Contemporary
A different kind of beachy read
Finding “Ichy”
Victorian Victims and Viking Burials
The 7(1/2) Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Everything I Never Told You
Where the Crawdads Sing – Rich and Beautiful
Little Fires Everywhere
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
In Five Years
The Jane Austen Book Club – dull and meandering
Finding happiness…in a (deadly) survival course?
Big Brother and Black Mirror – “Followers”
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
Utopia 58
Coming-of-age Spy Story: Who is Vera Kelly?
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
The Year of the Middle Eastern Reading Challenge + Unapologetically Muslim Reading Challenge? Yes, please.
Unapologetically Muslim Reading Challenge! (2020)
#YMERC2020 May Part 1
#YMERC2020 April Part 2
A Woman is No Man
#YMERC2020 April Part 1
#YMERC2020 April Part 2
A Woman is No Man
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
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
Banned in Egypt for “offending public morals – Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
Banned in Egypt for “offending public morals – Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
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
Online writing classes (some free)
Online writing classes (some free)
How to be a $100k author
How to be a $100k author
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
Fun Posts
Fanticipating Reads of May 2020 || 5 Under-Hyped Diverse Reads To Look Out For This Month
5 Female International Music Artists With Arab Roots You Knew Little About
Blog Awards
Ethnically Arab blogger award
Ethnically Arab blogger award
Mystery Blogger Award Winner
Reading Challenges
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020
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
Book Blog Tour? How do I even?
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